Work to start on $483 million veterans’ home rebuild in Holyoke; big investment spurred by COVID-19 tragedy

(MassLive/The Republican – Jim Kinney) Gov. Maura T. Healey and others will gather Monday in Holyoke to celebrate the start of work to erect a new Holyoke Veterans’ Home, kicking off five years of demolition and construction at the facility that used to be called the Soldier’s Home.

She and others are also expected to meet privately with families of 77 veterans who died – dozens of others were sickened – in a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility in 2020.

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