Funding for Assembly Square T stop may be in jeopardy

By George P. Hassett

At a recent Progressive Democrats of Somerville (PDS) meeting, U.S. Congressman Michael E. Capuano, D-Somerville, said the $25 million earmarked for an MBTA station at Assembly Square would go to a different project if the area continued to be developed as a regional shopping center, said several speakers at Thursday’s public hearing on Assembly Square’s future.   

Former candidates for aldermen, Marty Martinez and Lawrence Paolella, each said Capuano told the grassroots group of political activists that other projects in his 8th Congressional District were more deserving of federal funding if Assembly Square was going to be developed as a strip mall.

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