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The Holmes Realty Trust is poised to demolish this Central Square property. But conflict over the architecture of the building that will rise in place of these stores stopped the wrecking ball in its tracks earlier this month.
Holmes, a family owned business which has owned the property in question since 1915, wants to knock down the existing building and construct a new, more expensive complex for mixed residential and commercial use. The proposed complex--composed of two different buildings--will be 120,000 square feet and 60...
Originally the building was to have 12 stories, but the Cambridge Planning Board forced Holmes to scale down the design to seven stories.
The new Holmes plans do not conform to Cambridge zoning laws and, therefore, must be approved by the Cambridge Planning Board. The proposed height and square footage of the building exceeds zone limits, according to Scott Levitan, a member of the Central Square Advisory Committee (CSAC).
But despite its past performances, we heard nary a peep from them in the first several days of the Lewinsky story, aside from more legalistic nondenials from Clinton. Now the Clinton team says it cannot explain anything in detail because it must collect information for Kenneth Starr's investigation. Yet...