IDEAS BLOOM FOR FOOD HUB – All Otsego

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IDEAS BLOOM

FOR FOOD HUB

Rapid-Fire, Consultant Lays Out

Plans For Reborn Market Street

"Food-hub superstar" Karen Karp told Otsego Now's board this morning. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
"Food-hub superstar" Karen Karp detailed ideas suggested for Oneonta's prospective "Food & Beverage Innovation District" to Otsego Now's board this morning.   At left are Otsego Now board chair Devin Morgan of Cooperstown, county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, and Karp associate Ben Kerrick.  At right, foreground, is Dawn Rivers, Otsego Now workforce training director, and board member Hugh Henderson.  (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com

Elan Planning principal Lisa Nagle outlines the "triangle" target area, bounded by Main, South Main and Market streets.
Elan Planning principal Lisa Nagle outlines the "triangle" target area, bounded by Main, South Main and Market streets.

ONEONTA – Rapid-fire, “food-hub superstar” Karen Karp this morning presented a full menu of new ideas for the “Food & Beverage Innovation District” planned along Oneonta’s Market Street:

  • Renovate the downtown parking deck to include shops and maybe even apartments.
  • Collaborate with SUNY Oneonta’s Sodexo catering service on a restaurant and food-service management training center in a “food hub” in the former Ford dealership at Chestnut and Market streets.
  • Create an Ommegang “off-site research and development brewery” at the same site. (And/or a “modest-size place for contract brewing,” 15-20 barrels at a time, for the Garrattsville-based Butternut Beer & Ale brewery.

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