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...business has already expressed interest in using the site. Pemberton Market, a Cambridge supermarket, approached HRE about the property, Demong said...
Just last year, the Stop and Shop supermarket chain, which had run a Memorial Drive store for nearly 50 years, left Cambridge when the city council denied it a zoning permit to expand the facility. This left the residents of the Cambridgeport and Riverside neighborhoods with no nearby supermarket...
Demong added that Harvard might welcome a Pemberton plant nursery but not a supermarket at the Memorial Drive site. She said a supermarket would bring in too many people and would be difficult to displace should Harvard need the land in the future...
Geneva T. Malenfant, vice president of the Cambridge Civic Association, agreed that a future supermarket is unlikely...
Harvard "has a policy of not signing leases for greater than five years. [A supermarket] would be such an investment that it would have to have a lease larger than that," Malenfant said. "In between Harvard's demands and the needs of a supermarket, I don't think it's a viable site...