Contractor hired to demolish Ipswich Air Force test site…

Massachusetts’ contractor gets the nod on $2 million project.

Watermark Environmental of Lowell, Mass. won the $2 million, 13-month contract to take down a former U.S. Air Force antenna testing site on Massachusetts’ North Shore, the Salem News reports.

The US Air Force used the 65-acre site, which sits on a hill amid a residential neighborhood on Ipswich’s Great Neck peninsula, for testing and research on Cold War-era antenna and radar technology, leasing the property from a family group that owns the land since 1945. The Air Force deactivated and officially closed the site last summer.