Shrewsbury to vote on rezoning for Route 9 site
Shrewsbury is expected to vote Tuesday night whether to rezone part of the land that once housed two businesses to pave the way for a multi-use development project near the westbound-side junction of Route 9 and Oak Street.
Voters at a special Town Meeting will be asked to rezone 9.6 acres, a bit more than a third of the roughly 27 acres owned by Spagtacular LLC, which is managed by developer Sam Adams. The land is made up of residential plots as well as the former Chelmsford Ginger Ale bottling facility and Spag’s warehouse, Adams said.
“This proposed zoning change … would assist in the redevelopment of this site,” he said in a letter to Town Meeting members. “When fully built out, the site is expected to support retail, commercial and residential uses.”
If the change is approved, work on the site would begin this fall, Adams wrote, and would take three to five years to complete depending on demand to rent and lease. Buildings will be one to four stories tall and spread out throughout the site, he wrote. Adams said the development would create approximately 800 temporary jobs and 500 to 600 permanent jobs.
“We believe the proposed zoning to be in keeping with the ongoing redevelopment of the Route 9 corridor,” Adams wrote.
Adams is also redeveloping nearby Fairlawn Plaza, at 378 Maple St., which once housed the Price Chopper supermarket until 2010, when it moved east to the junction of Route 9 and South Street. Adams told the WBJ he plans to raze the 88,000-square-foot strip mall and replace it with 230,000 square feet of office and retail space. This land is not part of the proposed zoning change.
Also, another developer, Grossman Development Group of Southborough, wants to build 80,000 to 100,000 square feet of retail space, along with 250 apartments and 20 townhouse units at the 20-acre site of the former Spag's store, further west on the westbound side of Route 9. The development would carry the name Lakewood Commons. The store, which later became a Building 19, still has some light activity on the site.
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