Garden complex signs up a star

Star Market is coming to North Station. The West Bridgewater chain signed a long-term lease for a 63,000-square-foot grocery store in Boston Properties and Delaware North's 
$950 million, mixed-use TD Garden project.

The supermarket will be downtown Boston's largest, and will potentially cap a 16-year push by the North End/West End/Beacon Hill Supermarket Committee to bring an affordable grocery to their neighborhoods.

"My committee is very pleased that it includes the supermarket," committee chairwoman Lia Tota said. "We just hope — and this remains to be seen — that Star Market is willing to keep the prices as low as possible, because the idea of fighting for this was not just having a supermarket."

The committee plans to work with Star Market through the design phase.

"It's a great story of community activism and commitment," said Bryan Koop, senior vice president and regional manager of Boston Properties' Hub office. "There is a population of 75,000 people in these…neighborhoods who do not have a grocery store."

The committee formed after learning that the former Stop & Shop on Cambridge Street would be replaced by a more expensive Bread & Circus, prompting concerns about affordability.

When Stop & Shop finally closed in 2003 — it's now a Whole Foods — a free shuttle bus started transporting residents of the three neighborhoods to a Shaw's in Somerville and Stop & Shop in Medford several times per week. The grocery chains continue to fund the service.

An escalator will take shoppers to the new lower-level Star Market, which will emphasize hot prepared foods, alcohol, cut produce and organics, and include a cheese shop, pizza and salad bars, sushi, a seating area, pharmacy and Starbucks.

Shaw's was attracted to the location because of the tremendous amount of building in the area and access to North Station, a spokesman said. The city in 2013 also approved $7.8 million in tax breaks to help lure the company.

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