1ST DRI HOME RUN 40 ARTIST LOFTS, 26 APARTMENTS, PLANNED ON DIETZ Father-Son Development Team Will Brief City Council July 16 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Attention, Oneonta: The Lofts on Dietz are coming. Common Council will vote Tuesday on making Parkview Development & Construction, Inc., a father and son development team from the Hudson Valley, Ken and Sean Kearney, the “preferred developer” on a local version of Artspace – 40 lofts for artists and another…
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EDITORIAL Knocked Off Ballot, Brothers/Candidates Still Love Oneonta Oneonta’s Roberts brothers have a point. Actually, they have a lot of points. Walking down Oneonta’s Main Street sidewalk after an interview the other day, it was either Nate or Eric who pointed at the sidewalk and said, “That’s what we mean.” He was pointing at a trail of dog droppings. Four days before, someone had vomited in front of a nearby establishment. The vomit was still there. And cigarette butts –…
EDITORIAL Downtown Revival IS Exciting; Let’s ACT Excited About Plans There’s a lot going on in the City of Oneonta right now, as City Hall’s DRI (the Downtown Revitalization Initiative) begins distributing $10 million in state money, leveraging it in a way that attracts many millions more in private investment. Certainly, there are time pressures. There are conflicting agendas. There’s not ever going to be enough money to make everybody happy. Lately, environmentalists are ready to swoop down on any…
CITY UNVEILS MARKETING SLOGAN ‘We’re Onta Something’ Trampline Ad Agency Seeking To Capture Oneonta Quirkiness By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – “We’re onta something.” Get it? “Phonetically, we don’t say ‘we’re ‘on to’ something,’ we say we’re ‘onta’ something,” said Derek Slayton, Trampoline Advertising & Design creative director. “It’s fun, it’s informal, it creates a warm, friendly vibe.” Trampoline, based in Glens Falls, unveiled the city’s new marketing campaign Monday, May 6, at the B-Side Ballroom, the culmination…
Dietz Street Rebirth Suggested By Mayor…
IN MEMORIAM Marian G. Mullet, 91; Pathfinder Village’s Visionary Founder EDMESTON – Marian G. Mullet, 91, Pathfinder Village’s founding president & CEO, who worked tirelessly since the early 1960s on behalf of people with Down syndrome, died Sunday, March 17, 2019. She would have turned 92 later this week. A registered nurse by training, a fund-raiser and builder by happenstance, Mrs. Mullet is recognized as the driving force behind the early growth of Pathfinder Village, Edmeston, an internationally renowned residential…
Big Grants Go To Upgrading Upper Floors Getman Receives Top Award By JENNIFER HILL & LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA Two developers with plans for upper floor housing took home $392,000 as the Downtown Improvement Grants were revealed on Tuesday, March 5, promising to transform Downtown Oneonta. Plans to announce $2 million in grants were derailed by lengthy hearing, full of criticism of the city’s D&H yards proposal, but a list of the grants was distributed in the foyer outside the Foothills…
FROM TODAY’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON CITY NEWSSTANDS THIS AFTERNOON HERE’S LIST OF FUNDED DRI PROJECTS Plans To Renovate Upper Floors Top DRI List Of Grants $2 Million Distributed, Including $400,000 For Getman, Oneonta Optical Buildings By JENNIFER HILL & LIBBY CUDMORE • from Hometown Oneonta ONEONTA – Two developers with plans for upper-floor housing took home $392,000 as the Downtown Improvement Grants were revealed on Tuesday, March 5, promising to transform Downtown Oneonta. Plans to announce $2 million in grants…
For $3M, Theater Can Reopen In Collaboration With Foothills By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA – Oneonta Theater can be back in business again for $3 million. Evan Delli Paoli, an architect with the New York City-based firm, Holzman Moss Botino, told a gathered audience at Foothills on Tuesday, Feb. 19 that amount would pay for basic but necessary restorations and improvements needed to make Oneonta Theater operational. That was the final conclusion in the feasibility study, headed by Duncan Webb, Webb…
$3M Would Reopen Theatre, But With Foothills Involved FULL STORY IN HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON NEWSSTANDS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON…
