Store support

To the editor:

As a resident of the neighborhood served by the Mass. Street Dillons, I would like to thank our city commissioners for their vote in favor of allowing the store to be rebuilt. I am looking forward to shopping in a new, modern grocery store within walking distance of my home.

I would urge the minority of my neighbors who are opposed to the new development to consider the consequences to our neighborhood of allowing the existing store — already the butt of jokes — to continue to deteriorate or to cease operation entirely. The new store will enhance my neighborhood’s quality of life as well as the economic vitality of our city.