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I drove by this place today and it looks like they might open soon. I haven't heard anything about it.
Sake Bomb Japanese Steakhouse
8081 Brewerton Rd
Cicero, New York 13039-9585
I drove by this place today and it looks like they might open soon. I haven't heard anything about it.
Sake Bomb Japanese Steakhouse
8081 Brewerton Rd
Cicero, New York 13039-9585
Is it going into the building across from the Wal*Mart? Hopefully, it will last.
James Street mansion sells for $825,000; $90,000 above 2004 sale price
A Syracuse physician and his wife have paid what appears to be a record price for a single family home in the City of Syracuse. The mansion in the Sedgwick Farms neighborhood is approximately 8,900 square feet. According to The Post-Standard's online real estate transaction database, the property sold for $825,000 at the beginning of October. In 2004, the property was purchased for $735,000. Despite tepid demand for large homes and widespread depreciation among "ultra high-end" properties in CNY, the mansion sold above the previous sale price which was set just before the nationwide housing collapse in the mid 2000s. The asking price of the home wasn't significantly higher than the sale price.
I just read a more detailed article from the Albany Times Union published last Saturday. According to the article, one of the main functions of the Syracuse facility may be training and research as opposed to manufacturing. The calculus made by the Cuomo Administration is that in order to attract three large chip fab plants and potentially tens of thousands of direct and indirect jobs to the 400 acre site near Utica, there needs to be a well trained workforce familiar with nanotechnology. I wouldn't get my hopes up as it appears a Syracuse site will be engaged in research and training while the bulk of the jobs will be in Utica. What's more, the students trained in Syracuse will then be relocating to Oneida County to work at the actual plants and supplier companies which will result in a loss of intellectual and human capital.
A combination of R&D and manufacturing will be crucial if this project is truly meant to benefit Syracuse which it appears is not the primary objective. The main goal of establishing an outpost in Syracuse is to train a workforce that will be relocating to the Mohawk Valley to work in what officials hope will be an expansive Utica-Rome nanotech cluster. Syracuse still has a somewhat enviable concentration of companies engaged in radio frequency, radar, sensor, and switch R&D and manufacturing. According to the article, the nanotech efforts in Rochester are already involved in sensor technology which probably doesn't bode well for Syracuse
The cynic in me looks at establishing a "token" presence in Syracuse as the means for training the CNY workforce in a new technology for the sole means of getting them to relocate to Utica-Rome. Staffing the mammoth nanotech plant in Malta, Saratoga County has been challenging and most of the workers have been imported from other states. Knowing that very few people in Albany would be interested in relocating to Utica and understanding that the Malta plant will not want to compete for workers with potential facilities in Utica as that would cause wage inflation, Cuomo is targeting Syracuse for its larger labor pool and western location that would not directly impact efforts to further expand nanotech in his precious Albany area.
According to another article in the Times Union, one of Cuomo's top aids and confidants, Larry Glaser is handling several of the governor's pet projects including the shady casino referendum proposal and the nanotech project in Utica. Like Cuomo, Glaser hails from Westchester County and is a political hack who probably doesn't know where Utica is and assumes the population of the Utica and Syracuse metro areas are identical.
There seems to be a flurry of reports surrounding this story, here is another update from the Albany Times-Union regarding nanotech center in Syracuse dated October 14th:
Like the Utica facility, which is being built at the SUNY Institute of Technology, the Syracuse chip center would be modeled after the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, at which chip companies like IBM and Intel do cutting-edge research in partnership with the school through programs totalling $17 billion.
During the first week of October, an entity called the Fort Schuyler Management Corp. that controls the NanoCollege's operations at SUNY-IT made available to local developers its vision for the Syracuse center, which like Nano Utica, would have research, manufacturing and economic development components.
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University landlord plans student residences at former Rosewood Heights Nursing Home
The former Rosewood Heights nursing home will become student housing, according to the agenda for Thursday's Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting. Documents issued for zoning case "V-13-33" (see link below), give some insight into the proposed project (or more accurately described non-project). The owners of several dated student apartment complexes plan to acquire the Rosewood Heights building and make only minor alterations. The institutional looking façade will remain intact.
In my opinion, this project represents a major setback for the Connective Corridor and a missed opportunity to develop market rate housing on University Hill for hospital workers, researchers at nearby facilities, and other professionals. Adding a new, all-glass façade and gutting the interior could have improved the aesthetics of that area and served as a catalyst for additional redevelopment to complement the Institute for Human Performance (IHP) expansion, Biotech Center, Center of Excellence in Environmental Systems and Cancer Center.
From a purely business standpoint, it's a smart move (from the perspective of the landlords) because the building was likely bought on the cheap and the investors already have existing tenants and properties in the area. Slapping a cheap coat of Chinese-made paint and some bargain priced fixtures will require minimal investment and result in potentially generous profits from the rent rolls. The existence of much more expensive private dorms, there is always a demand for dormitory style housing at cheaper price points and fewer amenities.
For those that want to see additional redevelopment and vitality on University Hill, this project is a missed opportunity and an example of further stagnation. On the other hand, I don't see anything that would (or should) stop the city from approving the reduction in parking request and by extension, the project.
They are apparently asking for planning commission approval for the restaurant in the building. I can't make that meeting time, but this project would really irritate me. That building is in an ideal location and no renovation would be a horrible mistake.
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