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Are you interested in other villages or just Liverpool?
I have really only looked at Liverpool (and Berkeley neighborhood) up to this point...mainly because I am familiar with the area (grew up in Bayberry) and still have a lot of family and friends in the Liverpool area...plus the proximatey to downtown, highways and the walkability of the area are all very appealing to me.
I have really only looked at Liverpool (and Berkeley neighborhood) up to this point...mainly because I am familiar with the area (grew up in Bayberry) and still have a lot of family and friends in the Liverpool area...plus the proximatey to downtown, highways and the walkability of the area are all very appealing to me.
Yeah, that makes total sense. I think some of the other villages could work like Manlius and Fayetteville, but is further away from family. Baldwinsville and North Syracuse could work, but both vary in terms of walkability and may lack certain things or those things are more spread out throughout those villages. I also think that the village of Marcellus is somewhat of a sleeper as well.
Yeah, that makes total sense. I think some of the other villages could work like Manlius and Fayetteville, but is further away from family. Baldwinsville and North Syracuse could work, but both vary in terms of walkability and may lack certain things or those things are more spread out throughout those villages. I also think that the village of Marcellus is somewhat of a sleeper as well.
If I couldn't live in the Village of Liverpool, the Village of Manlius would be my second choice. Bville would be third, but agree that it's limited in walkability. North Syracuse is VERY limited in walkability - I don't even know why it's considered a village.
If I couldn't live in the Village of Liverpool, the Village of Manlius would be my second choice. Bville would be third, but agree that it's limited in walkability. North Syracuse is VERY limited in walkability - I don't even know why it's considered a village.
I think with North Syracuse, Main Street is walkable, but once you get out of the main streets, there are very few streets with sidewalks. Mattydale and Nedrow are the same way.
I thought it was a great article. Really great to hear about the retail opportunities that could come from the Pike Block project.
Some stores I would love to see include:
Anthropologie- Owned by Urban Outfitters, which is having big success in Armory Square. They just opened Anthropologie stores in Buffalo & Rochester so I would imagine Syracuse is high on their list.
American Apparel- Upscale store similair to UO. Have no locations in Upstate New York, but Armory would be the perfect location to open a trendy store.
REI- Bob Neidt reported on this Sports/Athletic retailer that just opened a new downtown store in SoHo. Completely retrofitted the building, which is a prime example of something they could do in Syracuse with VIP & the Pike Block.
There is more as well, I just cannot think of them at the moment.
But I believe having this new reatil is going to be huge for downtown and is necessary if it hopes to grow & prosper. It cannot be just a spot for bars & nighclubs. There needs to be a healthy mix of uses, including businesses and employers. The new addition of businesses & retaining existing companies, like Bond, Schoeneck & King is key to more projects like the Pike Block occuring Downtown.
It looks similar to Van's Skate Parks that are in malls across the country. Hopefully they can make enough money to pay for the insurance premiums that these types of places need.
Wasn't something like this supposed to open at the Headrush Action Sport Park where there is paintball now (State Fair Blvd area). I remember there being a grand proposal with a hotel, bike track, paintball and other things including the Quaker Steak and Lube that did go up. I can't find anything on the project, but I swear there was something big going on over there and haven't heard anything since.
Big dream takes shape in Van Buren
$80 million sports park development is under way
Thursday, October 12, 2006
By Rick Moriarty
Staff writer
Here's a new twist for the Syracuse area: A big development that promises to draw people in large numbers from hundreds of miles away is being built.
The first phase of construction on an $80 million action sports park is well under way near Interstate 690 and the state Thruway in Van Buren.
The first building, an 87-room Wingate Inn hotel, quietly opened last week at Winchell and Walters roads.
The frame of a 50,000-square-foot building that will house a motocross racing track is up. It is scheduled to open in mid-November.
The park's developer, Action Developers Inc., said construction of an addition that will triple the size of an indoor paintball facility from 31,000 square feet to 92,000 square feet will start within 90 days. The facility opened in 2003. With the addition, it will have skateboarding, go-cart racing and BMX bicycle racing in addition to paintball contests.
A 400-seat motorsports-themed Quaker Steak & Lube restaurant, the first in the state, will be built at the same time the paintball facility is expanded, the developer says. Quaker Steak & Lube restaurants resemble 1950s-style filling stations on the outside. Inside, racing cars, sports cars and motorcycles hang from the ceiling.
Construction on the central attraction a water park housed in a 90,000-square-foot building is scheduled to start in early 2007 and open in late 2007 or early 2008. Land behind the Wingate Inn is being cleared for the water park.
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