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“This is the culmination of a few years of effort so we’re very excited,” said James Cowdell, executive director of the city’s Economic Development and Industrial Corp. He praised Jamie Marsh, the Department of Community Development director, for securing $2.5 million in MassWorks money for infrastructure improvements around the supermarket. “It’s interesting when you think of the scope of this project how the neighborhood almost universally supported it,” Cowdell said. The store will employ 75 full-time employees and 325 part timers, he added. Shuttered since 1988, the once state-of-the-art factory sat empty until Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy met with high-level GE executives to discuss steering the site toward redevelopment. Patsios bought the 16-acre property from GE in 2013 for $4 million. Market Basket CEO Arthur T. DeMoulas joined city and state officials last year to announce $2.5 million in state money for road improvements around the site. Thomas Grillo can be reached at tgrillo@itemlive.com.
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