Home Depot Saga

I’ve spoken with a lot of people about the Home Depot coming to the Billerica Mall. At first I thought only the people around the center cared. Then we placed the poll on WWW.Billerica.org and I realized that a large group of people did care. I appreciate the fact that O’Connor Hardware has been a great asset to our community, but if I owned the mall property, I might have a problem with people telling me what kind of store they would like to see in there. Bob Casey of Billerica First, and now a Planning Board member, contacted us a year and a half ago and had us post a letter trying to build a coalition of folks to stop the Home Depot. Now he sits on the board that makes the decision on whether to allow them to occupy the mall? What do you think about all of this?