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Construction Begins on $80M Retail Development

READING, MA-The 400,000-sf retail development being built on a 33-acre former landfill along Route 128 is on track to a fall 2004 opening. The developer agreed to cap the landfill enabling the project to move forward.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on December 11, 2003

READING, MA-The ground has been broken on the 400,000-sf retail development being built on a 33-acre former landfill along Route 128 and construction is under way. The project, called the Crossing at Walkers Brook, was able to move forward once an agreement between the town and the developer over capping the landfill was reached.

The site was a town dump until the 1970s and the state ordered the landfill capped. Quincy-based Dickinson Development Corp. agreed to take over responsibility for closing up the landfill, which costs about $4 million. The agreement was reached as part of negotiations between the town and the developer and resulted in a public-private partnership between Reading, MA and Dickinson Development.

The $80-million project is being built in two phases with the first phase consisting of a 140,000-sf Home Depot, a 260,000-sf Jordan’s Furniture store, which includes a 450-seat IMAX Theater, and a 217-seat Chili’s Restaurant. The second phased consists of 70,000 sf, which will possibly accommodate several more retailers and restaurants. On its website, the second phase of additional development is describes as “probable once the economic climate improves.”

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