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Aerial view of property

Dealership
work is
beginning
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
EAST PUTNAM — About a year after purchasing the former Cormier property on Rt. 44, the new owners are starting plans to develop the 12-acre property.
Town officials said the engineering firm last week conducted soil analyses, saying the firm took several samples. The firm will take the results of the tests and formulate from there the plans for the property.
The site plan will be based on what the soil analyses says.
There are wetlands on the property.
A year ago the property was purchased by Sean and Michael Putnam, LLC. They said at the time that the company “intends to give all their customers as many local options as possible at the Toyota dealership now slated for 88 Providence Pike.”
Breault Realty III, LLC sold the property to Sean and Michael Putnam, LLC, for $1.335 million, according to town clerk records.
The agent listed for Sean and Michael Putnam, LLC, of Norwell, Mass., is Robert McGee.
Under various companies that group owns 17 dealerships including McGee Toyota in Dudley.
The parcel contains a small yellow house, a field adjacent to the house along Rt. 44 and a large undeveloped area directly behind the house and field. The open acreage in the back runs all the way behind the store buildings on the eastern end of the Putnam Parkade.
Directly across from the property are Tractor Supply and a liquor store. Retail stores, a pharmacy, fast food restaurants, banks, and more fill in Rt. 44 on both sides heading west toward I-395.

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