Construction crews have begun demolition work at the site of the former Osram-Sylvania plant located on Route 33 in Greenland, NH.

A site review for the construction of a Lowe's Home Improvement, Target and Stop & Shop is also slated to begin sometime in the near future.

Paul Young, of Calypso Communications, is the spokesman for Packard Development, of Newton, Mass., and said completion of the 357,000-square-foot shopping center should be in the spring or summer of 2009.

"Things are progressing well and the demolition work is near completion and within the next week or so site work will commence," said Young.

Young also said that site work will consist of certain portions of the 56-acre landscape being moved around in addition to a small amount of trees that will need to be cut down.

The demolition comes in the midst of Supreme Court decision released on Nov. 29 that brought the long-simmering shopping center controversy to its legal conclusion.

The 10th and final issue was the appeal of Deb Furino and the Greenland Concerned Citizens on the issue of a special exception granted for the project to allow retail sales in an industrial zone

The group of abutters challenged the Zoning Board of Adjustment's original decision in April 2002 to grant the special exception. They were concerned about traffic and environmental issues.

After losing the case in Rockingham County Superior Court, the abutters appealed to the state Supreme Court and were then shot down once again in an attempt to block the construction of the much anticipated shopping center.