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140,000-SF Home Depot Opens at New Center

READING, MA-Home Depot is the first retailer to open at the Crossing at Walkers Brook, a $90 million 400,000-sf new retail center along Route 128. The 140,000-sf store will share a common footprint with a 260,000-sf Jordan's Furniture as the project centerpiece.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on August 26, 2004

READING, MA-Home Depot opened at the Crossing at Walkers Brook, a $90 million 400,000-sf new retail center along Route 128. The 140,000-sf store is the first to open its doors at the center.

Dickinson Development Corp. built the center on a 33.5-acre former municipal landfill. The site was a town dump until the 1970s and the state ordered the landfill capped. Quincy-based Dickinson agreed to take over responsibility for closing up the landfill, which cost nearly $4 million. The agreement that was reached as part of negotiations between the town and the developer–which took nearly three years–resulted in a public-private partnership between Reading and Dickinson Development.

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