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Article: Lowe's project good to go ; Milton developer took 8 years to put the pieces together for superstore
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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QUINCY - It was a 16-acre jigsaw puzzle that took eight years to
complete.
In 2001, Milton developer George Brewster began negotiating with
13 homeowners and businesspeople to buy up their South Quincy
properties with the goal of attracting a retail superstore.
Now, Lowe's Cos. Inc. is set to begin site work in preparation
for a 102,000-square-foot Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse store,
capping an exhaustive land acquisition and permitting process.
"(Brewster) went out and took a huge risk and bought this land
with nothing in place yet," said Brewster's real estate broker, Tom
McFarland of Re/Max Realty Pros in Quincy, "but he knew it was a
good piece of land."
The Lowe's project is part ...