Marlborough Raising Cane’s location to open in 2023

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Marlborough Raising Cane’s location to open in 2023
Crews worked on the future Marlborough Raising Cane’s on Monday. (Photo/Laura Hayes)

MARLBOROUGH – Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant is getting close to opening at 141 Boston Post Road West.

According to its national office, the restaurant is scheduled to open in early 2023.

This comes after the representatives of a nearby McDonald’s appealed the City Council’s decision to grant a special permit for the project.

A fast food restaurant that specializes in chicken fingers, this Marlborough restaurant will be their second Massachusetts location.

In 2021, Raising Cane’s applied for a special permit to construct a restaurant with two drive-through lanes.

The project moved forward despite concerns regarding traffic from the nearby McDonald’s. McDonald’s attorneys argued that all traffic entering and exiting the Raising Cane’s would have to pass through their driveway.

Ultimately, the City Council granted the special permit, and McDonald’s appealed the decision in October. In court documents, McDonald’s attorneys argued that traffic vehicle circulation and issues with both safety and parking “conflict with public health, safety, convenience and welfare and will be detrimental or offensive to traffic in the vicinity of the Project and to the operation of the McDonald’s restaurant.”

In March, City Solicitor Jason Grossfield announced that the appeal was dismissed in a letter to the council.

“This is very good news for the City Council and the city,” said City Councilor Kathleen Robey during a March 14 meeting.

Following the dismissal, the building department told the Community Advocate that the restaurant would need a demolition permit to move forward with its plans.

The department said the existing structure has been torn down over the summer, and construction is underway on the new building.

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