ALDI, ConMed, Rescue Mission projects progress – Utica Observer Dispatch

From apartments, to office space, to a grocery store, there are several major projects underway within the city.

UTICA From apartments to office space to a grocery store, there are several major projects underway within the city.

In an end-of-the-year message, Mayor Robert Palmieri said that the city had successfully marketed and sold 12 major commercial properties to private developers. Ten of those are in the city's downtown/Bagg's Square corridor.

These 10 downtown properties alone have combined for more than $1 million in sales, put nearly $6 million of assessed property value back on the tax rolls and cultivated more than $34 million in private investment, Palmieri wrote.

"Several of these anchor buildings were just sold in the past year including the Rite Aid, New Century and Security buildings," Palmieri wrote. "When you consider other major projects like the renovation of the Doyle Hardware building, you can see and feel a significant change in our community."

Here's a look at some of the projects taking place within the city:

"As with all of todays ALDI stores, the interior of the Utica store will present a modern, new look featuring higher ceilings, increased natural lighting and environmentally friendly building materials, such as energy-saving refrigeration and LED lighting,"said Aaron Sumida, ALDI Tully Division vice president, in a statement.

Sumida said that they hope to open the store by early summer.

ConMed building

Hayner Hoyt, a commercial construction company from Syracuse, is developing the former ConMed property at 310 Broad St. into mixed use, including apartments and office space.The thINCubator, which is overseen by the Mohawk Valley Community College Foundation, and the college's masonry and carpentry programs also have moved into space in the complex.

Gary Thurston,Hayner Hoyt CEO and chairman, said work has not started on the complex's main building. The current design for that building includes 24 apartments on the second, third and fourth floors and office and/or commercial space on the first floor.

"The design was completed recently," Thurston said. "We are in the process of seeking financing for the completion of the four-story building."

Thurston said in July the company had hoped to start work on the apartments in the fall but now is hoping to start work in the next two months.

"Our progress was delayed through the fall waiting for a decision on historic designation for the building and/or area," he said. "That has been secured."

Rescue Mission apartments

The Rescue Mission of Utica is in the process of buildinganapproximately 54,000-square-foot, three-story, 42-unit apartment building on property at 1013 West St.Half of the first floor of the building will be used for some community services offered by the mission.

Crews are in the process of demolishing theexisting building at the site, which once housed several hotels and apartments over the last 100 years

Jim Haid, the mission's executive director, said that crewshave done excavating on the site to get ready for the foundation work.

The project, which will cost approximately $14 million, is expected to be completed by March 2018.

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