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Article: Liquor store will stay shut Application withdrawn
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 28, 1994
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EAST BOSTON -- Neighborhood activists used to battling with
Logan Airport over turf, noise and air pollution claimed a smaller
but significant victory last week in a battle to keep a liquor store
from reopening.
At a community meeting Aug. 17, the East Boston Pier Project
Advisory Committee (PierPAC) in conjunction with the Jeffries Point
Neighborhood Association and the Boston Police had planned a vocal
assault on a local resident's plan to reopen Festas Liquor Store on
Sumner Street.
The liquor store, activists said, would jeopardize a $15 million
waterfront park that the Massachusetts Port Authority is building in