Dan Murphy, vice president of Kraft Group’s Business Development and External Affairs, informed the Foxborough Board of Selectmen Tuesday that the company will no longer be pursuing additional negotiations related to Patriot Place.
After nearly three years and no progress on a comprehensive deal between the town of Foxborough and the Kraft Group to expand Patriot Place, the company has decided to walk away from the negotiating table. “We are unfortunately no closer to a deal than we were three years ago,” said Dan Murphy, vice president of the Kraft Group’s Business Development and External Affairs. … “At this point we don’t want to waste the [Board of Selectmen's] time and don’t want to waste our time and we just don’t see that there is a likely solution so we respectfully ask [the Board of Selectmen] to take no action on the negotiating committee.” The news comes as a disappointment to those in town who were looking forward to future development at Patriot Place …
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Negotiations between the town and the Kraft Group continue to be a hot topic with the latest discussion centered on whether talks between the two sides should be done in public session.
Foxborough’s Board of Selectmen has some important decisions to make at its Oct. 30 meeting regarding the status of negotiations with the Kraft Group for future development at Patriot Place. Chief among those decisions will be whether or not negotiations between the town and the Kraft Group should be done publicly. The suggestion was first made by Board of Selectmen vice chair Mark Sullivan after Town Counsel Richard Gelerman informed the board the town negotiating committee it appointed in September was subject to Open Meeting Law because of how that committee was created. To read more on why the negotiating committee was subject to Open Meeting Law, click here. “No disrespect, I got a better idea,” Sullivan said after hearing Gelerman’s …
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Lexie
2:52 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012
Agreed...it is very embarrassing and as a new resident I don't understand why the current BOS and Town Manager were ever elected! more ›