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BY GRACT RUBENSTEIN
STAF A INTITER
NORTH ANDOVER-When
Frank A.Terranova was growing
up a diner stood atthe corner of Os-
good and Barker streets,�e recalls.
,Later,it became a swimming pool
store.
Now he and his wife,Kathleen
Me'Lay,whoi run MpLay's Florist
and Garderi Center there,want to
turn the spat into a strip mall.
The 9;540-square-foot retail cen-
ter would,include columns,glass
doors andwood paneling—fall de-
T&� 1.n Atthe alma's Colonial style,
Tq-Taubva said.McLay's Florist
oald up one of the four,units
In,the",006,-level building ur-
io1l Wd
1 parking spaees4 I
'°` sa6ewestuicarnation
ofe seat 12110sg6od St.!mitht th
big busmess:m the area—butut
theleastitl e anothermakera�,
time and change
In the 19 08;the corner was home.1
to Joe's Diner,a'oeal hangout en-
closed in aralroadcar,recalls Ben-
jamin C.Osgood 3i,,a town native.
It was kind fa eat old place,',
he said.`2t had little stools and little
tiles on the floor and stuff It was
just a diner,a little greasy spoon."
Joe's Diner norpbed""' another
resta Wan-t;lVlaggie's Place,and lat
er the pool stpq-e.before silting va-
cant in the 1990s,he rememliet
"It's kind of,a little landmark
spot,"said Joanne E.Forgetta,a42-
3'Ear resident who helps runthe
fa?uilybusiness,Poz-getta's Flowers, "
just up Osgood Street from
L""",nA„`We all remember things
lake across the street Beljn
(Restaurarit)"was 40,000 things;so
everything ohges"
The site of:Hou,,Rjug.was oneeThe
Red School seestaurant.
When Terranova;�nd Mc Lay
bought the 1,2 acres at the crest of
hill a
on Route 125;file spoth been
abanclolyed for years,Terranova
said,They eplace d br0 ken" ,7n_
doft,lsid mew carpet,Cleared o
brush and re ut
paved the panting h J
Tolanner J.Justin Wo,
said he needs review Terranova's
new plans�n r, bie,detail before
making a 1Qeomendation on the
'.:permit,:but said;llie,project"could
fit in really nleely"with ct"could
nent along Route X25 Tj1e Nvn'8
MALL: Plans for Route 25 osed
Prop
10 Continued front Page 11 Barker's Farm Stand at 1267 Os- for the kind of businesses he wants
good St.,says he doubts the devel- at his center but prefers to keep it
master plan calls for routes 125 opment will boost his business but secretf'or now,in case other devel-
and 114 to become commercial has no objection to the proposal. op 6N would compete with him for
corridors. "There's so much traffic on the tenants.
Local business owners differ road that I don't feel that added The Planning Board will review
over whether the retail center small businesses would bring a lot the couple's permit appli cation for
would attract customers to the of people in,"he said, the project Oct 21,
area,hut,they agree that it won't, Terranova said be will wait on
bait; Planning Board approval before
"Anything that creates activity he solicits tenants or breaks
,creates"interest,"Forgetta said. ground. SAVE:MONOY 0 CLIPPING
Since there is already a flower "The engine that runs this is the ;
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