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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMiscellaneous - 701 SALEM STREET 7/23/2003 S op, proposed By,'or pjaZa By Grace Rubenstein bra Staff Writer! . 4 ings, NORTH ANDOVER = The don'owners of J&M Convenience Store and and Deli on Salem Street are hop- the ing to open(a second business,—a lani pizza shop—right next door. wal Planning officials will decide E tomorrow whether to allow the Me Xenakis family to open the busi- Iasi ness without undergoing a lengthy opE review process. The Planning tiol Board approved the site plan for del the family's plaza at 701707 A Salem St. in 1997, saying the 41 parking spaces there were suffi- cient to support retail, office or deli businesses,Planning Director J.Justin Woods said. The family would normally have to go through a complete,' new review to open a restaurant i —for which the town requires more parking—but they are ask- ing for a waiver. 'The idea is to find a business that would be busier at night, because Dunkin Donuts is open here in the morning and they're pretty busy," said James M. Xenakis, who manages the store and is helping his father and uncle' 4 plan the new business. Xenakis,also a town selectman, ` said he and other staff at the store asked customers"what business they would like to see in the plaza and the "overwhelming sugges- tion"was a pizza shop. "There really is no other place in the area to get pizza,"he said,! "You have to go downtown or to another part of North Andover to get it." Xenakis said the business is unlikely to cause a parking prob- lem because it will be only take- out and will be busiest at night, while the convenience store, Dunkin Donuts and dry cleaners: in the,plaza are busier earlier,in the day.,The.pizza shot) will require no changes to the outside of the building,he said. The space was occupied:by Champion Factory, a gymnastics studio,until it moved to Chicker ing Road about a year ago. The proposed pizza shop already has a food license,which was issued by selectmen in April, said Xenakis, who recused himself from that deliberation and vote. �+ _J&M.Subs at 69 Main St. is owned by;Xenakis'cousin. The Planning Board meets at 7 p.m. at the Department of Public