Word: karp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Located close to the Lechmere T-stop and serviced by a free shuttle running round trips from Kendall Square, Karp says the mall is a modern approach to the downtown shopping center. He adds that the mall offers city-dwellers the basic shops and services of the local village square...
...Karp says the original goal of the mall development was to "integrate an urban project with the community and with some new condominiums...to create a substantial tax base for the community...
...mall was intended to "architecturally blend in" with the area, according to Karp, who says the mall is "an urban project unmatched" anywhere in the United States...
...Karp says his company met repeatedly with neighborhood groups to discuss plans for the mall. The only time he remembers disagreeing with local residents was during a debate about the planned construction of a cinema complex at Two Canal Park, a plot of land also owned by New England Development...
...Karp says his company dropped the project as a result of the community opposition to the cinema...