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City, state agree: No development on one Greenway parcel unless builder puts in a supermarket
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Hold on
"The developers thought they had a deal with Stop & Shop. But the supermarket giant walked away from the negotiations after deciding on a larger location in front of the TD Garden that is being developed by the venue’s owners."
So the BRA required a supermarket for that neighborhood because there wasn't one. Then, a supermarket decided on its own to open a store on an adjacent-but-unaffiliated plot of land. Yet the BRA is still requiring a supermarket in that plot of land? Won't that supermarket be redundant with the planned Stop and Shop?
Maybe
Wouldn't it depend on what store moves in there? A store like Market Basket (a girl can dream) is much more affordable than Stop and Shop, for example.
Something tells me,
A market basket in downtown Boston might not be able to keep it's prices as low.
More to the fact, I don't think they'd even ever consider it due to the costs.
I believe...
There was something in the language that if another supermarket opens in the area, the BRA wouldn't require one at that site.
Curious
There is nothing on the BRA's development map to suggest that the parecel in front of the Garden is being developed, much less to include a super market. Not even a letter of intent filed by a developer. It sounds like the "talk" with Stop & Shop was just that, which would explain why the BRA still insists on a super market from Trinity.
No
No. there's a provision that releases the developer from the requirement if a supermarket opens nearby. And it's not just the BRA, it's the state, which owns the parcel. It might be fire under the feet of the owners of the vacant parcel next to the Garden to finally develop it. That said, if the supermarket at One Canal goes forward, I hope it's a Market Basket.
So the BRA
Just gave Market basket, et al, a lot of negotiating leverage for leasing of the space. Maybe the groceries won't be so expensive after all.
Not in the city
Market Basket doesn't have an urban business model. Their stores require parking lots the size of several football fields so that Caucasian suburbanites can park their oversized SUVs when they go shopping.
Market Basket doesn't have an
I can see the large parking lot part of this. I think that the race of the shopper and make of vehicles is a bit of hyperbole.
Believe it or not there are a wide variety of races and nationalities that live in the burbs as well as folks who drive smaller vehicles than oversized SUV's.
Chelsea, Somerville, Lowell are all pretty urban
and you'll see quite a few non-Caucasians in all three.
Don't forget the Salem one
Don't forget the Salem one serving Lynn among other towns
Couldn't be farther from the truth
You might want to take your head out of your ass, Andrew. When we white people go to our local MB, we are the minority and English is a second language.
Good try, though - I would expect nothing less from a hipster city boy.