Chicopee, MA Condo for Sale

Chicopee, Massachusetts, earned the nickname “Crossroads of New England” due to its location at the intersection of highways and interstates, but it’s also a crossroads of cultures. Poles, French-Canadians, Puerto Ricans and others have transplanted to the city since the 1800s — and continue today — to work its mills and production lines. They brought cuisine and festivities that define the city of 55,000 people. Chicopee is located directly north of Springfield, a larger city with 150,000 residents, but it’s more than a bedroom community. In the 200 years since textile mills first sprung up in Chicopee, it has developed its own employers, traditions and small business sector. It’s a place where a resident may be a lifelong local or recently arrived from another country. To emphasize this, Mayor John Vieau points to the ever-rotating flags flying over City Hall. “We raise flags for holidays: Hispanic Heritage Month, St. Patrick’s Day, Polish Heritage Month,” he says. “You could eat every nationality of food you can think of in Chicopee, from Puerto Rican to Korean to Italian.” Before it became a town in the 1840s, Chicopee was a collection of villages. Those villages form the