Yet another business at Cornerstone opens its doors as Panera Bread is now open to the public.
Local officials and other business officials were on hand to christen Westford's new Panera Bread location just off Boston Road at Cornerstone Square.
From Nabnasset to Forge Village, here are your Five Things for today in Westford.
#1. Musicians Wanted... for the upcoming Third Annual Forge Pond Fun Regatta! #2. Another West Nile Virus Infected Mosquito... has been found in Nabnasset, and there will be spraying in that area today. #3. School's Almost Back in Session: And the new Westford Academy newsletter is out. #4. On Wednesday at the Zoning Board: The ZBA approved a variance to replace a garage with an expanded living room at 4 Banbury Drive, approved a special permit to demolish a home at 40 Lake Shore Drive North and held off a decision on street setback relief for a home at 15 Fourth Street. #5. Pictured: More than likely, you've been driving down Boston Road and you've seen the new Panera Bread sign, but you might be asking yourself from looking at the …
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More buildings and more tenants are coming to shopping center located just off 495 in the heart of Westford's commercially zoned area.
Westford Planning Board chairman Mike Green told Cornerstone Square representatives on Monday that he appreciated the fact that their development was "a moving target," but the target has been slowly coming into focus over the past few weeks. Spokespeople with the development announced earlier this week that it has reached 80 percent tenancy, with a grand opening scheduled for November. “The leasing interest has been incredible ever since the project was first announced,” said Dusty Burke, President & CEO of American Commercial Real Estate and leasing broker for Cornerstone Square . “Our tenants recognize the value of being a part of well-located, stylishly designed retail and medical office center, and want to be part of the excitement …
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Welcome to "You Asked, Patch Answers."
Hello Westford, and welcome to our latest edition of "You Asked, Patch Answers." Each week we attempt to answer a question from our readers, and today's question refers to those two buildings going up along Boston Road at the future Cornerstone Plaza. More specifically, the reader asked what they were going to be once finished. The answer? The one next to Mobil on the Run is going to be a Panera Bread, and the one near 495 is a Burton's Grill. At the last Planning Board meeting, Panera petitioned for a sign variance that would bring signage pointing toward the Mobil and Boston Road. The next scheduled Planning Board meeting was supposed to have an agenda item regarding signage at the entranceways of the development, but that was recently…
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The issue was separate, yet conjoined with a larger sign debate earlier in the evening.
While the debate on signage at the entranceways of Cornerstone Square had to be postponed by the Planning Board, the debate reverberated into a later agenda item on signs for Panera Bread, reducing their number of signs they received from three to two. This came despite the fact that Westford town planner Chris Kluchman indicated to the board that the freestanding entranceway debate couldn’t be attached to the following discussion relating to signs requested by Panera. If the entranceway signs had been approved, the third sign on the northern wall of the building would have been meaningless, allowing larger signs on the eastern and southern parts of the building. In the end, the board approved the application based on the elimination of …
