We live in a free market economy - let the market decide!

I just voted no, but then looked at the coffee article. Salem has 14 (yep, 14) Dunkin Donuts. How about we let CVS build a store that will actually provide better access for folks and eliminate 50% of the Dunkin Donuts (just to be clear that still leaves 7).

tell joe correnti to do something else with his time and stop pushing for the cvs...salem doesn't need another drug store especially in that area...the city is already chocking under it's own weight...stop selling out salem...enough is enough

salem needs another drug store like it needs another dunkin donuts ....stop selling the city of salem to large corporations...enough is enough..salem can't handle the traffic and congestion it has now....STOP...

While Salem, as a whole, may not strictly need another CVS, a pharmacy in close proximity to the college is a good idea. I'm not crazy about the planned location, either. Perhaps further up Loring Ave, or Lafayette Street might be better.

CVS is out of control already. In the past five years they've torn down historic homes in the countryside of CT (my hometown) and have been slapping up their stores within a stone's throw of other pharmacies... I know, Dunkin's has done it, too, but can it just stop now? I refuse to go to CVS anymore because of this. Maybe they should look into improving how their stores are run before making more of them: the prices and hours at Walgreen's are better, period, and I think most college kids can manage the ten minute stroll to downtown Salem. There's a CVS there, too, if they choose.

Funny how everyone complains about rising real estate taxes, but when the City tries to expand its commercial tax base (commercial property owners pay a higher rate than residential homeowners) everyone complains about business. If there wasn't a market for their product then CVS wouldn't be trying to move there. Let the market decide!

My family & I happen to live right across the street from this lot & have since 1989! The traffic here on Jefferson Ave. is already a NIGHTMARE! It is nearly impossible to get in or out of my driveway, without getting killed! There are already too many cars coming from too many directions. Heaven forbid you try to even cross the street here. They will run you over first! This project is all about the buck!! The last thing we need in this residential location is a drug store (or more traffic), especially when we already have so many in the area! Having this project go through is a disaster just waiting to happen. Having lived at this spot for almost 23 years, I have seen many changes on this street,......all have which created more traffic. I am tired of the double lanes of cars in front of my house, as well as listening to all the noise it creates & all the fumes in puts into my windows! These are just a few reasons that this project SHOULD NOT got through. The people looking to make money here should put themselves in the shoes of people like myself who live right here! We don't have the money to move, but CVS has the money to put their store somewhere else more appropriate that across the street from my home!! We don't need want it, or need it,................period!!!!

just throwing this out there:
wouldn't it be nice if someone tore the Clipper Ship Inn down and put a nice grocery store... say... TRADER JOES. ;)

As a resident of Bridge St... traffic isn't bad at all anymore thanks to the bypass

I live on Bertini Lane behind the proposed project. I am concerned about the big trucks that will have to come through the area to make deliveries to CVS. The new one on highland ave has a huge parking lot that is never full. If the University is concerned about students having a pharmacy let them build on one of the many pieces of land that they own in the area. I say NO!

If CVS wants a drug store so close to Salem State Campus as quoted by Mr. Correnti, just open it in the Campus lobby! CVS should stop pushing their DRUGS on the American people, nevermind college kids! This FOREIGN company should be ashamed! How can our city councelers sleep at night, selling out to big corporations,they should be ashamed as well.

It would certainly be nice to have a pharmacy again in South Salem, but not necessarily in this location. If CVS is determined to have a store near Salem State, what about the storefront next to the White Dove on Loring Ave.? Can't get much closer than that.

It will be great for the on-campus SSU students. It is outrageous how little there is of interest to them within walking distance!

I hope they force CVS to construct the new building like the one on Rantoul St in Beverly and not like the one on Highland Avenue. If they make it look less like a big box store at least it will blend into the architecture of the city and not be so commercial. The buildings where Little Caesars is located will be slums in about ten years. Is the Eaton's still open by Crosbys?

Eaton's - The last of the independents.

there are several T buses that go out Loring Ave. past the college several times a day. duh?? get on a bus & have a choice of either CVS or Walgreens, both in Vinnin Square. that stretch of road is a nightmare already!