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ROTTERDAM
Shopping center site eyed for Glendale Home
Officials want to put vacant Curry Road property to use
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

    Schenectady County offi cials are eyeing the dilapidated Curry Road Shopping Center property as a possible site for the future Glendale Home nursing facility.
    Spokesman Joe McQueen said county officials approached the Rotterdam Industrial Development Agency about the mostly empty plaza last month. Also under consideration is the vacant fi eld running between Airport Road and the Schenectady County Ice Rink in Glenville.
    “Those are the two that are being looked at,” he confi rmed this week.
    McQueen said the Glenville and Rotterdam sites are two prominent locations identified for the home, but the search for other properties continues. He said county-contracted engineers will have to look at both sites and others to determine if they are suitable for home.
    “We don’t know what the time frame is going to be,” he said.
    Rotterdam IDA chairman Robert Mallozzi said his board was approached about the property and reacted favorably to the notion of using it for the nursing facility. He said board members seemed amenable to the prospect of bringing roughly 200 jobs to the town.
    “There’s definitely positive interest on the board to at least hear more about the project and the concept,” he said. “But obviously there are more questions that need to be answered.”
    The 10-acre shopping center is a highly visible eyesore in the town that has eluded redevelopment efforts since it was ceded to the town by the Golub Corporation more than seven years ago. The property was transferred to the Rotterdam IDA by the outgoing all-Republican Town Board in late-December, only two days before five new members were sworn in.
    The incoming board under the administration of Supervisor Frank Del Gallo sacked the entire IDA and installed a new board during their first day in office. Town offi cials also tried to halt a transfer of the property but were unsuccessful.
    Since that time, the effort to redevelop the shopping center has plodded on. For more than a year now, the IDA has been working with developers from the Clifton Park-based Forum Industries to build 184 units of affordable senior housing on the site.
    Ray Gillen, the chairman of the Metroplex Development Authority, which handles administrative issues for the IDA, said the interest expressed by the county wouldn’t slow progress in redeveloping the site. He said a comprehensive environmental study of the property continues and Forum Industries remains interested in bringing the senior housing project to fruition.
    “We’re still pursuing that project,” he said, “We’re not going to stop.” .......................>>>>........................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01801&AppName=1

I bet when Dist 2 sirens go off, the residents will REALLY appreciate their free wakeup call.

              Not a good idea!  County gov't. property would come off the Town assessment roll.  Sorry, no more tax welfare here, municipal budget is to big for taxpayers already!

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              Not a good idea!  County gov't. property would come off the Town assessment roll.  Sorry, no more tax welfare here, municipal budget is to big for taxpayers already!

I agree! What about the land the county already owns in rotterdam? Isn't there some kind of library depository on RT7 by the old crounse farm? It is already off the tax rolls and already owned by the county. Perhaps that could be relocated or incorporated with another library.

Rotterdam shouldn't support  it on curry road. It is only a 2 lane 'street' right next to a firehouse. 200 employees = approx 200 cars. And that doesn't include 'visitors'!!

Definitely NOT Curry Rd!!! Does the county own any land in duanesburg or princetown???

Let's recap.........Since the plex got involved in rotterdam....there has been a proposed gin mill and 2 (DVA & nursing home) non profits! Just like the city of schenectady.....over run with non-profits and gin mills!

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Definitely NOT Curry Rd!!! Does the county own any land in duanesburg or princetown???

Let's recap.........Since the plex got involved in rotterdam....there has been a proposed gin mill and 2 (DVA & nursing home) non profits! Just like the city of schenectady.....over run with non-profits and gin mills!

            Actually the County owns the property where the Glendale Nursing Home currently exists.  They are looking for a "new home" because Glenville is smarter than Rotterdam, and they want that property developed with tax revenue.  I agree it is a bad location, but if Metroplex wanted to rebate a larger share of the county sales tax to Rotterdam for locating there, and we went from 1 mil. a yr. to say 2.5 mil. per year, it would be worthy of consideration IMO.

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there has been a proposed gin mill and 2 (DVA & nursing home) non profits!

Change that ..

there has been a proposed TAXPAYER SUPPORTED gin mill and 2 (DVA & nursing home) non profits!

What a joke, pretty soon Proctors will be buying tax free buildings in Rotterdam

Bringing in more tax revenue doesn't work either. The more money that the government receives in taxes just gets spent on either other government programs, retirement incentives or patronage jobs. That is just the way things work in schenectady county.

It's pretty simple....they need to cut spending!

I am sure they will trumpet this in the mailings as an example of 'working together works!"

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What a joke, pretty soon Proctors will be buying tax free buildings in Rotterdam

As usual The Source nails it. This project is dead in Glenville. Sue Savage saw her polls numbers tanking. The site by the Airport is totally wrong for a nursing home. So is this site on Curry Rd. These idiots want to take a huge commercial property off the Rotterdam tax rolls and the RIDA thinks it's a good idea?

     Here's the problem the $50 MILLION bonding has already been done. But there is no site! Glenville residents were up in arms. How about you? Had enough YET? Someone needs to find a sledding hill near Curry Rd. This is typical of the way Sue Savage does business. Backwards. The best site, is, was, St Claires. That property is already off tax rolls.

Susan Savage's and supporter's polls will also tank in Rotterdam with the proposed non-profit, tax paid nursing home. And I agree with you benny....susan savage changed her tune when she realized that this lame idea will cost her votes. This may just be the last nail in her coffin! Cause Rotterdam don't want it either. How about Savage proposing it in her own town of Nisky? I'm sure they will welcome the beast, huh? Susan Savage is going to avoid the topic of this nursing home until after the Nov. elections!!

Again....rotterdam has nothing but 2 lane 'streets'. Bad choice, bad idea!

And I agree.....St. Clares should have been the location! That is where Ellis houses their nursing home patients. They could have incorporated the two!

How about .. hmmm... the old Ingersoll place.  I hear they're looking for new tenants

How about St James Plaza on Balltown Rd? Another renaissance mess that tanked even further once Death Ray took over. Let the Niskayuna residents pay for the stupidity of this County "leader" that they keep re-electing.

     Agree BT but Savage has opened her HQ in Rotterdam off Guilderland Avenue. Watch out for incoming mailers tooting ANG and her "working together".

“Obviously, the one drawback is the lack of tax base that it would bring into the town,” Mallozzi said.
    But the property could be split, so that its highly visible street front could be utilized for commercial development. Mallozzi said the combination of jobs and additional tax base from a street-front commercial plaza might offset some of taxable property lost if the nursing facility is brought to Curry Road.
    “There would undoubtedly be some tax revenue coming in from some of the [commercial] pad sites,” he said.


           Hey Robert, let's get the entire parcel on the tax roll.  Let's be responsible to the Town residents and work towards relieving the tax pressures.  And then let's hope the Town Board accepts its fiduciary responsibility to the residents and freeze the budget or roll it back.  I heard FDG will run the town like a business, let's just hope the sign doesn't say, CLOSED!

Great idea - it will clean up an eye sore .. bring over 200 jobs into the town.  Generate potential
customer traffic that will help boost business along the Curry Road/Altamont Avenue Corridor.