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Regional Discussion => Monadnock => Topic started by: KBCraig on July 22, 2012, 12:38 AM NHFT

Title: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: KBCraig on July 22, 2012, 12:38 AM NHFT
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/winchester-nixes-dollar-store-again/article_ded1c18b-2ab8-5e3e-9423-02a9fba99779.html

Posted: Saturday, July 21, 2012 8:45 am | Updated: 8:52 am, Sat Jul 21, 2012.
By Garrett Brnger Sentinel Staff

WINCHESTER — A proposed Dollar General store in Winchester is dead in the water after it failed to get a key variance.
The town zoning board voted unanimously at its Thursday night meeting to deny the Zaremba Group LLC's application to waive a maximum size requirement for the store. Board members said the proposal's size was incompatible with the rest of the district.
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Jim Johnson on July 22, 2012, 12:48 AM NHFT
The fight to remain a disheveled Depression Era hovel goes on unabated.
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Tom Sawyer on July 22, 2012, 07:27 AM NHFT
Nice comment on the article Jim.

A fire or flood would be the best thing to happen to downtown Winchester... if those old leaning buildings fell backwards into the river it would be a vast improvement.

Kulick's gets to use the town government to keep out competition.
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Jim Johnson on July 22, 2012, 07:51 AM NHFT
That's the second medium size business they have turned down in a month.
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Pat K on July 22, 2012, 01:34 PM NHFT
Well down town is so rustic,
if they let them build some thing new
the next thing you know, there might
be paint with colors like yellow being used.

You people just want total chaos!
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Russell Kanning on July 22, 2012, 01:36 PM NHFT
so they said dollar general was too small?
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: KBCraig on July 22, 2012, 04:26 PM NHFT
Quote from: Russell Kanning on July 22, 2012, 01:36 PM NHFT
so they said dollar general was too small?

Too big.
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Kat Kanning on July 22, 2012, 06:18 PM NHFT
Incredible. They'd rather have empty, broken down buildings than businesses.  ::)
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Russell Kanning on July 22, 2012, 07:42 PM NHFT
ah so people will continue to go to hinsdale and keene while winchester just rots
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Scott Roth on July 22, 2012, 08:59 PM NHFT
They just opened a store in Hillsboro...not too big at all.  Small footprint store...seems fairly harmless.
Title: Re: Winchester still safe from cheap shopping
Post by: Jim Johnson on July 22, 2012, 11:35 PM NHFT
Quote from: Scott Roth on July 22, 2012, 08:59 PM NHFT
They just opened a store in Hillsboro...not too big at all.  Small footprint store...seems fairly harmless.
The people who own the Kulick's shopping center think it's extremely dangerous, to their bottom line.  They are also the people who don't want a Dunkin' Donuts/gas station in Winchester.
Which reminds me that a wood powered power planet was defeated in Winchester last year, as well as a new waste transfer station.