Procedures Ready, But Blocked In Phase 4
Montanti: 'No Reason'
Southside Mall Can't Open
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – As the Otsego County hovers on the brink of entering Phase Four under NY Forward, Luisa Montanti, Southside Mall manager, has been receiving “hundreds” of emails and texts, all asking the same question.
“They ask,, 'Why isn’t the mall open?'” she said. “I’m asking the same thing.”
On Tuesday, Robert F. Mujica Jr., the state's budget director, said that Governor Cuomo had made the decision not to allow malls, gyms and movie theaters to reopen when many regions, including the Mohawk Valley, reach Phase Four. No opening date has been given.