The town can not dictate a specific tenant to a property owner through any
process. The town can approach a property owner with an appealing offer.
All discussions to date of the proposed mall zoning will permit a use such
as a community center, and I will be very surprised if they do not continue
I respectfully disagree. I don't believe the Planning Board can specify
the tenants and the terms for a future community center at the Lincoln
Mall as the Mall under Options C and D1-D3 will be developed by right and
won't require a Town Meeting for a building permit. I am not an attorney,
but
You are right, I don't know that it would be a project killer. That was
just my non-expert guess. If the town were willing to pay a high enough
rent for community-center space at a redeveloped Mall, I guess that could
work economically from the developer's point of view.
That would still leave
The likelihood or not of the community center at the mall is irrelevant to
which option is chosen. It is equally likely or unlikely with C as with E,
or with any of the D options.
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 2:38 PM Karla Gravis wrote:
> Why would including the Community Center as part of the mall
Why would including the Community Center as part of the mall be a "project
killer"? We could sign a 10/20/30 year lease. Wouldn't a developer jump at
the chance to have a stable tenant instead of having to deal with constant
retail turnover? Or is this comment an indictment of the viability of any
