February 12, 2012
By David Scribner
HOUSATONIC, MA – Like everyone else, I was surprised to learn that Sandra Muss, a painter and wife of Stephen Muss, the Florida-based developer and would-be savior of Housatonic, was buying the Barbieri mill building — and even more startled and dismayed that a condition of the sale was that the Berkshire Pulse Center for the Creative Arts would have to move out by the end of February.
Hip Hop Class at Berkshire Pulse, Barbieri Mill, Housatonic MA
After all, although Sandra Muss had a studio in the building, surely she didn’t need the whole building, at least right away, and besides she and her husband had once told me how much they valued Pulse as a component of the cultural life of Housatonic and South Berkshire.
I suppose, if she owned the real estate, she would do what she wanted.
So I called up Stephen Muss to find out what was going on.
