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Article: The Memorial Drive mural
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 28, 1993
CopyrightCopyright 1993 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Cambridge City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on whether
to sell to Stop & Shop -- for a reported price of $1 million -- the
short stretch of Riverside Street that it needs to build a
super-supermarket to replace its aging market on Memorial Drive.
The issue has aroused considerable controversy in the
Cambridgeport neighborhood, where support for a larger and improved
market is offset by concerns about the heavy traffic impact -- both
18-wheeler delivery trucks (perhaps exiting onto Memorial Drive) and
an estimated 700,000 more customer trips a year -- the market could
have.
The old market almost did not survive the 1970s.
One route proposed for the Inner Belt -- an aborted ...