Word: notting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new offer, a subsidiary of Stop & Shop would pay the city $1 million for the road. To ensure that the company did not use it for other purposes, the city would have the option of buying back the land if the company did not build a grocery within...
The plan, brought forth by the lawyers, was presented without the customary report by City Manager Robert W. Healy and not accompanied by a specific construction plan, councillors said.
"This is not the way you dispose of public land," said Francis H. Duehay '55. "I cannot vote for this in the way its being presented."
Vellucci questioned the desirability of such an arrangement. He asked the company's attorney if he played craps. When the attorney replied that he did not, Vellucci said, "When you roll the dice, you don't get prime rate back when you lose."
But an attorney for the company said if an agreement were not reached soon, the current store would have to shut down within two years. The company would then sell the land to another developer, who might not be as restrained and responsible as Stop & Shop, he said.