CONWAY — Settlers Green is asking the Carroll County Superior Court to dismiss a third lawsuit filed by the North Conway Grand Hotel that has had the effect of holding up the planned construction of a Market Basket grocery store.
Bellevue Properties, owner of the North Conway Grand, has lost two previous cases against the town of Conway and Settlers Green in Superior Court. They are now pending appeal before the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
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Hopefully when the new Market Basket is up and running they are able to employ the workers who get laid off from Hannaford and/or Shaws.
Love market basket, but the area can't support all three, especially with the dent Walmart already puts on them.
This kind of perpetual litigation can have legitimate merit, according to Yale law prof George Priest, to the extent it means that there is more value to an ornery plaintiff than to some opportunistic defendant. The difference in this matter is that the public has an interest in developing this property and welcoming Market Basket (even though Shaw's might disagree). The hotel chose its beds when it sited in an-obviously commercial area. Please, spare us. Note that in Lincoln NH, people can site hotels on commercial strips. Why not in North Conway? My free legal advice to the perpetual plaintiff is to think about how to enhance the hotel's value in light of the emergence of Market Basket. There are even possible synergies. If you want to know what they are, though, I will need to bill you. SMH.
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