Winchester still safe from cheap shopping

[KBCraig]

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.

[Jim Johnson]

The fight to remain a disheveled Depression Era hovel goes on unabated.

[Tom Sawyer]

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.

[Jim Johnson]

That's the second medium size business they have turned down in a month.

[Pat K]

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!

[Russell Kanning]

so they said dollar general was too small?

[KBCraig]

so they said dollar general was too small?

Too big.

[Kat Kanning]

Incredible. They'd rather have empty, broken down buildings than businesses. 

[Russell Kanning]

ah so people will continue to go to hinsdale and keene while winchester just rots

[Scott Roth]

They just opened a store in Hillsboro...not too big at all.  Small footprint store...seems fairly harmless.

[Jim Johnson]

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.