Market Basket bets on Chelsea housing. If you shop there, you could live there too.
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“If you love
Market Basket’s flagship store in Chelsea, you might like living there too.
Last week, the beloved grocery chain began circulating a 40-page conceptual masterplan among Chelsea officials that would allow for two apartment buildings and more retail on its 30-acre parcel – home to its flagship and once the site of the Mystic Mall.
It’s an ambitious vision that could create 162 units of housing and transform the area the city is rebranding as “West Chelsea.” A residential-shopping district with a “village center” would be built on what is today the supermarket’s overflow parking, according to the plan.
Hard to picture? Think
Somerville’s Assembly Row. At least that’s the vibe the conceptual renderings give off……”
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