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Developer Withdraws Big-Box Permit

It's official, Canadian developer Smartcentres has withdrawn its application for a conditional use permit that would have allowed the construction of a 240,000 square foot development across the street from Madison High School.

Smartcentres has until February to submit other plans, but until then the neighborhoods that mobilized against the development are celebrating and collecting ideas for alternative developments. Thoughts? Leave them here!

Posted on October 3, 2007

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