CONWAY — Though frustrated and hamstrung by lawsuits stretching back a decade, Rob Barsamian, owner and president of Settlers Green shopping complexes on Route 16, continues to believe construction of the much-anticipated Market Basket grocery store will begin by late summer, with the store opening in 2021.
The owner of the adjacent North Conway Grand Hotel, which has filed about a dozen lawsuits against Barsamian going back to the 2000s, last week lost a pivotal court case in the New Hampshire Supreme Court that challenged the Conway Planning Board’s approval of the project.
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