CONWAY — After a date for oral arguments had been agreed on in the lawsuit filed by the owners of the North Conway Grand Hotel against Conway over planning board approval of a proposed Market Basket grocery store, a Carroll County Superior Court judge has denied it.
The planning board unanimously gave conditional site-plan approval on Nov. 8, 2018, to the owners of Settlers Green to build a 69,845-square-foot Market Basket store between Barnes Road and Common Court.
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