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It’s Official: CVS Closes On Gutted Cooperstown Motel COOPERSTOWN – CVS Healthcare completed its purchase of the Cooperstown Motel property on Tuesday, according to Martin Tillapaugh, attorney for the estate of Al O’Brien, longtime motel owner. The sale was near completion last summer, but was delayed by the Aug. 9 arson fire that gutted the property at Chestnut and West Beaver streets. CVS then needed to determine additional costs associated with clearing the property, as much of the rubble has…
Hearings Set On Cooperstown Motel Razing COOPERSTOWN – In today’s mail, residents in the blocks around the Cooperstown Motel received notice of two hearings scheduled for the property that was gutted by fire last Aug. 9. At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, the Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board will review and an application to raze the motel. At 4:30 Wednesday, Feb. 22, the Planning Board will conduct a site plan review. CVS Health, the Fortune 100 Rhode Island-based company,…
Cost Questions Stall CVS’ Motel Purchase Fire Made Demolition More Expensive By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – CVS Healthcare has asked for another 30-day delay – the final one, the company says – to study how much more razing the Cooperstown Motel will cost because of the Aug. 9 fire, according to attorney Martin Tillapaugh, who represents former motelier Al Brien’s estate. Following the raging fire that extensively damaged the existing building, the original Aug. 19 closing on…
POLICE CONCLUDE: MOTEL FIRE ARSON By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Investigators have determined the fire that destroyed the Cooperstown Motel in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Aug. 9, was intentionally set, they announced at 1:15 p.m. today. Investigations by the state Office of Fire Prevention & Control, county Office Of Emergency Services, state Department of Financial Services and the Cooperstown Police Department determined that the fire began on the second floor of the abandoned motel. No further…
Closing Delayed Month On Cooperstown Motel COOPERSTOWN – CVS Health has delayed closing on the purchase of the Cooperstown Motel for a month to allow an arson investigation into the Aug. 9 fire there to come to a conclusion. Attorney Martin Tillapaugh, executor of the estate of Albert O’Brien, the longtime owner of the motel who died last October, said the closing, which was scheduled for this past Monday, Aug. 22, has been rescheduled for Sept. 21.…
‘WORST SINCE THANKSGIVING HOME’ Investigators Probe Gutted-Motel Scene No Word Yet If Blaze Is Suspicious By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Investigators are on site at the vacant Cooperstown Motel at this hour, seeking to understand what cause a raging blaze to erupt at 2:45 a.m. today. SEND PHOTOS TO SHARE TO INFO@ALLOTSEGO.COM “Hot spots” are still being doused, said village Fire Chief Jim Tallman, who had been at the scene throughout the night into this morning. He called the…
‘Very Large Crowd’ At Motel Auction Worries Coop Police COOPERSTOWN – Local police have been alerted by Village DPW Superintendent Brian Clancy a “very large crowd” is possible for next Friday’s (the 8th) auction of the furnishings and other contents of the Cooperstown Motel – including potentially valuable baseball memorabilia – and to plan accordingly. The auction, by MacFadden & Sons of Sharon Springs, begins at noon. The motel, at Beaver and Chestnut, is at the “major access point” to…
IN MEMORIAM: Al O’Brien, 84; Proprietor Of Cooperstown Motel COOPERSTOWN – Albert K. O’Brien, 84, proprietor of the Cooperstown Motel, died Oct. 23, 2015, after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable adult inherited infirmity. He was born Feb. 12, 1931, in the Methodist-Episcopal Hospital in New York City. He was raised in Springfield Center in the family’s four generation home as well as in several different sections of New York City. While attending high school as a…