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Jan/Feb 2015

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36 | JANUARY + FEBRUARY 2015 nshoremag.com there are also great after-school and sports programs, as well as a recreation department that's incredibly active in coordinating activities, trips, and special events for children and adults alike. In addition to Burlington's strong community, the industry on the other side of town makes it easy for residents to do business, shop, go out to eat, and have fun. "It's a very attractive place to raise your kids because we have everything right here," Parker says. Having "everything right here" started when the Burlington Mall was built in the 1960s, ac - cording to Petrin. "That was the cornerstone to that whole area," he says. Fast-forward 50 years and Burlington is continuing to see new businesses come in. A Wegmans is among the latest of Burlington's new arrivals. The hotspot promised to rebuild, and the new location is slated to open in February. "The whole area is really designed as a work, live, and play setting," he says. "That's a great opportunity for young folks to come in on a rental basis and work in the area. [It's] adding a whole other level of great ameni - ties and services to Burlington." These new developments are adding to the kind of business sector that Burlington already has: one that's even more convenient and packed with things to do than a lot of larger cities. Murphy says business people who work along mall road can pop out at lunch, go shopping, hit the gym, and have dinner after work. Northeastern University and Bay Path College have campuses there. And unlike Boston or Cambridge, there's no MEDIAN 2 Chadwick Rd., 4 bd., 1.5 ba., 1,802 sq. ft., 0.48 acres PRICE $449,900 AGENT Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, newenglandmoves.com HIGH END 15 Sears St., 4 bd., 3.5 ba., 4,211 sq. ft., 0.41 acres PRICE $899,900 AGENT Hammond Residential Real Estate, hammondre.com Real Estate Fox Hill Elementary, Francis Wyman Elementary, Memorial Elementary, Pine Glen Elementary, Marshall Simonds Middle School, and Burlington High School PUBLIC SCHOOLS Olympic silver medalists Peter and Kitty Carruthers; This Old House landscaper and TV personality Roger Cook; Pixies drummer David Lovering; Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns; Nobel Prize winner Roderick MacKinnon; NHL player Jay Pandolfo; comedian, writer, and actress Amy Poehler; NFL player Steve Strachan NOTABLE RESIDENTS wildly popular grocery chain, which boasts restaurants, cook- ing classes, and other interesting offerings, in addition to aisles of fresh food, opened to tons of fan- fare in October 2014 and is the anchor of 3rd Ave. Burlington—a new shopping, dining, and living destination. "That is an enormously creative development," says Jim Murphy, president of the Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation. 3rd Ave. Burlington will combine a shop-lined boule - vard with dining options like The Bancroft, PAUL Bakery, and Tony C's Sports Grille. Murphy adds that 180 apartments are slated to open in the spring of 2016. The development did suffer a major setback in April 2014 when a fire destroyed the newly built Kings Bowl America. But the bowling photographs by Robert Boyd

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