Konover Gives up on Shopping Center

t- Changing seasons: No hostility: Bryan Farms briefing cordial / page 3 Church fairs signal autumn / page 13 Owners firm: NFL games will be played / page 9 anrliratpr HrralJi Manchester — A City ot Villatje Charm Friday, Sept'11, 1987 30 Cents Wi Konover gives up S- m: ' ^ " h:- on shopping center By Andrew J. Davis "Tlw re are serious traffic prob don’t have a rabbit we can pull out ‘ Herald Reporter lems On the area) that need to be of a hat. We can’t fix it” - S'* solved,” Weiss said this morning. At the commission meeting, town , . i.” A proposed 120,000-square-foot “ It’s an economic decision. If it officials said that withthe center so r ' shopping center off Buckland can’t be solved. It’s their choice.” close to the Interstate M eastbound Street has met its demise after its Konover had thought it would be exit ramps, and a number of main developers were unable to resolve able to build the center, even with streets, traffic generated from such 'M potential traffic problems in the the traffic problem, Larson said. a shopping center would be too area. He said that he thought the town much for the area. Gary Wood, a According to John Larson, vice would go with Konover to the state police spokesman, told the commis president of Konover Development Department of IVansportation to sion at the meeting that even Co. of West Hartford, the proposal seek a solution. without the center, the intersection to build the center has been He added that since the town had is hard to handle. abandoned because of traffic prob proposed the building of Red Stone Possible solutions such as adding lems. The town Planning and Road between Buckland and Slater a traffic signal or adding rights of Zoning Commission denied the streets, it would be able to handle way have been researched, but they application without prejudice Wed the traffic flow in the area. would not alleviate potential prob nesday. stating the center posed too However, a recommendation by the lems in this situation. Larson said. .4 heavy a traffic problem for the planning department to eliminate With that undeniable fact. Konover area. potential left turns onto Buckland has decided that a shopping center Robert B. Weiss, town manager, Street by closing off a median has where 'potential customers would said that although the town doesn’t killed the project. be unable to make left turns onto a like to see a development lost, the “ There’s nothing we can do about main street was not in their best decision Is Konover’s. it.” ^ rso n said this morning. "W e interest. Konover submitted plans for the center In June. “ There’s no easy solution.’’ Lar son said. ‘"They (town officials) need a broad rethinking on howthat Pope says Jews, intersection works.” Konover does not have any plans i ■ i f ' to search for other sites for their center at this time. Larson said. w Palestinians have The land off Buckland Street was the most desirable because it was \ zoned for such use. Searching for another site would •r/ right to homeland "open up Pandora’s box.” he said. The company would have to look at possibly rezoning a second site, M IAMI (AP) — Pope John Paul than had been expected and the A which would become another head II, in a long-awaited meeting with promised ^<i^t ests were 1 ache in itself. Jewish leaders, today defended his microscopic. ^ 1 predecessor popes against accusa ” I come as a friend — a friend of ’ ’There are no good sites for this 1 11 tions that they were silent about the America and of all Americans; kind of project.” Larson said. ’’Any 4 ** Li Holocaust, and proclaimed that Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants other site may not share the same 1 ^ such horrors must happen ’ ’never and Jews, people of every religion, characteristics. I don’t have any again.” and all men and women of good magic solutions or any other place Le The pope said Jews have a right will,” the pope said at his arrival. lo g o .” na to a homeland ” as does any civil In his speech today, the pope Larson added he will not go back Hi nation.” But that right “ also dealt head-on with accusatiens to the commission with the project. ml applies to the Palestinian people, so that the church did little to stop the even though he would be able to do many of whom remain homeless Nazis from murdering 6 million so. By denying without prejudice, (N and refugees.” the commission would allow Kon Jews. Harald photo by Tuokor afl The pope made his remarks after The popes’ efforts were ’’strong, over to Icome back if the traffic Le a tour of a traveling exhibit of unequivocal,” he said. Pope Pius problem, and some other minor ■h Judaica from the Vatican XI, who reigned from 1922 to 1939, application problems, were Starting at the top fei collection. said the swastika was ” an enemy of resolved. thi Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, the Cross of Christ,” and history Workers apply the first coat of paint to painted and sided by a Wales, Mass., ”I’d love to be able to come se former head of the Synagogue will show "how hard and effec back.” he said. “ But we’ve ex the Center Congregational Church contractor. The work should continue Council of America, stressed in his tively’' he worked to assist Jews plored as much as we can explore.” steeple Thursday. The church is being until the end of October. At remarks that difference remained. during World War II, John Paul ’ ’However, this opportunity for us said. "J to express the pain and anger of the ’’And I am convinced that history Jewish community in face-to-face will reveal ever more clearly and di( meetings and for you and leaders of convincingly how deeply Pius XII Parking still problem in laser permit su your church to listen with respect (pope from 1939 to 1958) felt the and openness, represents an impor tragedy of the Jewish people, and ”/ tant confirmation of the progress how hard and effectively he worked Bv Andrew Yorkovsky permit application because the result in any significant difference spaces Laser Games said would be our communities have made in to assist them during the Second Herald Reporter number of parking spaces involved in the analysis of the parking r^uired by the number of patrons recent decades,” Waxman said. World War.” was more than 60. Any permit requirements. Two plus two still using the laser entertainment cen The meeting, on the first full day The pope used the word The developer of the proposed application for a change of use equals four,” O’ Marra said in his ter. While Laser Games said that of John Paul’s nine-city tour of thr ’’Shoah” — the Hebrew word for the Laserquest entertainment center calling for more than 60 spaces written decision. the total number of spaces for United States, had nearly been Holocaust — and said the suffering on East Middle Turnpike may cannot be considered unless an Rittenband said that the permit patrons would be 57. O’Marra (A canceled after the pontiff’s meeting of the Jewish people strengthens appeal Thursday’s denial of a application for a special exception applications are for two distinct argued that the number should be pr in June with Austrian President the church’s ’ ’common bond with building permit for the project, the is sought from the Planning and uses — one for the laser game 62. bringing the total to 79 rather bi Kurt Waldheim, who has been the Jewish people and with their developer’s lawyer said this Zoning Commission. center Itself and the other for office than 75. wl accused of complicity with Nazi treasure of spiritual riches in the morning. After the first denial. Laser space. Laser Games had originally bf war crimes against Jews and past and in the present.” South Windsor attorney Richard Games split the project in half and But O’Marra. commenting on his sought to increase the parking th partisans in the Balkans. Waldheim The pope did not refer to Rittenband. who represents Laser submitted two separate permit decision, said this morning. ’ ’The spaces at the former Mott's Shop- has denied the allegations. Waldheim today, but on the flight to Games of Hartford Inc., said he applications. The revised plans call uses made of the building, when Rite from 99 to 122. th Following a Mass in Tamiami Miami Thursday he had insisted believed that Thursday’s denial by for an employee parking lot with 17 combined are both changes of the bf Park, the pope was headed for that the meeting with the former Thomas R. O’Marra, the town’s spaces and one for patrons with 57 Rittenband said the next imme H( earlier use. And the total number of diate step for Laser Games Is Columbia, S.C., for a meeting with secretary-general of the United zoning enforcement officer, was spaces. While the total number of fo parking spaces by the uses pro Monday’s court hearing In Rock 27 Protestant leaders and then on to Nations was not a mistake. incorrect. Whether the denial will spaces is 74, each parking area has P) posed equals more than 60.” ville Superior Court. A judge Is to New Orleans. “ It was necessary. It’s necessary be appealed to the Zoning Board of less than 60 spaces. to He received a rousing welcome to to show the same appreciation, the Appeals will be made after he O’Marra’s decision Thursday to The entertainment center would decide then whether to make change the use of the proposed site, permanent a temporary injunction South Florida on Thursday, with an same esteem, for every people.

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