GRANTS KEY TO DRI SUCCESS City Hall Funding 4 Projects To Install Upstairs Apartments By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – City Hall this afternoon announced funding to renovate the upstairs apartments on four downtown buildings, a key step forward in the $10 million state-funded Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) now entering its fourth year. Apartments will be built above Joseph Grigoli’s Sal’s Pizzeria, 285 Main St.; Peter Clark’s Shops at Ford and Main, 250 Main St., Russ Scimeca’s…
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EDITORIAL From All, Best Wishes For A Speedy Recovery Editor’s Note: This editorial is reprinted from this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands now. The news that state Sen. Jim Seward’s cancer is back – his office issued a press release Wednesday, Nov. 6 – brings two immediate reactions. One, fingers crossed. Advances in cancer-fighting research can mean five years, 10 years – and more – of active living. Everyone’s got a story of a…
CLICK HERE TO SEE ONEONTA FUTURE Developers Sought For ‘High-Quality, Upper-Story Units’ City Hall Wants Applications For $400,000 More In Funding Monday, the City of Oneonta will begin accepting applications for a second round down Downtown Revitalization Initiative grants, this one to create “high-quality upper-story housing units” in the downtown. Applications for the money from the city’s Downtown Improvement Fund will be due by 4 p.m. Friday, July 12. $400,000 in grants is available. However, if any winners of $2…
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…
Plan ‘Transformative,’ But Details Still Fuzzy Nothing On File, And Officials Unclear On How $225K Will Be Used By LIBBY CUDMORE & JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA – The DRI Project Selection Committee called the project “transformative” and awarded it $225,000. But it turns out few details are available on what WHH Realty Corp., owned by city Planning Commission chair Anna Tomaino and her husband, Jimmy T’s proprietor Jim Tomaino, plan for 218-224 Main St. Asked for details, Project Selection Committee chair…
Downtown Improvement Awards To Be Announced Tuesday March 5 ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig will announce the recipients of the $2.3 million in Downtown Improvement Funding as part of his State of the City address at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5. “The grant applications from our business owners far exceeded all expectations,” said Herzig. “That so many demonstrated a willingness to invest their time, energy, and resources into building a better downtown is very exciting. The award announcements, along…
5-Year Business Plan Due For Oneonta Theatre Fans By LIBBY CUDMORE – Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The consultants at Webb Management will give their final recommendations for a five-year business plan for the Oneonta Theatre at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Foothills. The performing arts management consultants, who shared their initial findings in December, will report on their study of the local demographics and tourism data for our area and region, and give an overview of their recommendations…
Consultant: Save Oneonta Theatre, Let Foothills Help By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The Oneonta Theatre is worth saving. Duncan Webb, found of Webb Management Services, the premier consultant on revitalizing and managing historic theaters, told a gathered audience at Foothills that the 121 year old theater, now owned by Tom Cormier, was viable, and recommended that it be renovated and “aligned with the downtown” in helping to attract visitors who shop and stay in hotels in Oneonta.…
Common Council Approves $25,000 For Artspace Survey Full Story In Hometown Oneonta, On Newsstands Wednesday Afternoon…
In DRI Era, Historical Society Opens Urban Renewal Exhibit Against a backdrop of aerial photos from the Urban Renewal era, Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, welcomes visitors to “Urban Redevelopment: Oneonta’s Downtown in the ’60s and ’70s,” this afternoon at the opening reception. The aerial photos, showing the City of the Hills before and after a few dozen downtown buildings were demolished, was designed to provide historical perspective as the city moves forward with its DRI, the $10…