A new shopping plaza is coming to town after Gardner City Council passed a raft of ordinances and resolutions to help fund the construction of the Main Street Market Place project during a meeting Jan. 18.
The proposed project, Main Street Market Place, includes a new 60,000 sq ft Price Chopper grocery store and the redevelopment of the current store into restaurant and retail space. Super Market Developers, Inc, a subsidiary of Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), is behind the project.
The council, after holding a public hearing in which no member of the public came forward, passed a resolution declaring the city’s intent to issue Industrial Revenue Bonds amounting to $19,390,000 to finance a portion of the costs of the acquisition, construction and equipping of the proposed facility.
(Read more: Gardner News)