About Town with Mark Snyder
ABOUT TOWN: Downtown Eyesore to be Rebuilt (Plus Get Well Wishes for Two Stoughton Chiefs)
Welcome to "About Town with Mark Snyder," a column that will keep you up to the minute with what's what, who's who and what's going on around town. If you see or hear something we could use here, let us know by sending an e-mail to pmpco@aol.com.
FINALLY, DOWNTOWN BUILDING GETTING REBUILT: After years as a public eyesore, the former home of Cheng Du on Washington St. in downtown Stoughton, owned by the Parsons family of Malcolm and Parsons, will soon be rebuilt. The building first suffered a fire a few years ago back in October of 2009, and then the roof collapsed under snow the following winter, in January of 2011. The roof collapse also caused damage to the adjacent building and put a Stoughton restaurant, Kabob House, out of business. That building, which also houses Olivio's, has since been repaired and Chicken Kebab recently opened where the Kabob House once was. But the old Cheng Du building, which suffered the brunt of the damage, was enclosed in fencing for a time, which…
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Regina
4:37 pm on Sunday, March 10, 2013
The Pacheco building has new owners and they've started some work already. I guess there are some really nice architectural elements in that building. Who knew? more ›