Tuesdays groundbreaking for another major hotel project in Watertown is the result of not just the efforts of developer Patrick Donegan but also a couple of years of beating the drum for water and sewer improvements on the west side of town that will allow this land adjacent to Route 81 to be used. The plan, with the support of City Council, improved Gaffney Drive sewer lines and will result in the acquiring of a new line across property that is part of Stateway Plaza.
Funding came from different sources including an innovative use of some $100K in federal USDA funds that were eligible for use in the City. My old friend, former Alex Bay supervisor Sampie Sutton helped to hook us up with the dollars. There were county IDA dollars in addition to city funds.
Improving water and sewer in this commercial neighborhood will yield important benefits and the three new hotels in the pipeline and the adjacent businesses to support them are a plus for the City's important retail and hospitality sector.
Watertown Daily Times Hotel groundbreaking set for Tuesday
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Meanwhile back at the ranch the city streets are worse than tank trails.
The city streets are not worse than tank trails. They do need to suck it up and rebuild a few few more of them every year so that they don't all need to rebuilt at once like they do now, courtesy of doing little to nothing in the 80's and 90's.
and the second best way to pay for that short of free money from the government is with a healthy tax base. The kind you get from giant hotels. The P in PILOTs stands for PAYMENT so they still bring in money and eventually expire.
Right on 9:52...works the same way for wind farms.
Except that wind farms are so profitable, courtesy of government subsidy, and there are so few places that would allow them to be built that are still close to civilization, that they would be built here without PILOts.
Whereas, hotels would probably just be built in the surrounding towns instead of paying the high taxes in the city.
What's Sampie Sutton got to with it?? The last time I heard of him he was opening a gas station.
No, the streets of Watertown are in worse condition than they ever have been. Hayes cares not a wit because he doesn't have to. That was pretty well decided years ago. We also have no where near the program we had years ago as far as maintaining the streets during snow storms. But that was decided years ago too. Hayes obviously doesn't care about that because he doesn't have to. Jeff keeps telling him kudos and the people accept what they have as what they can get. I grew up in Watertown. It was never like this. But if you tell a lie often enough it becomes accepted as the truth. And that is what has happened.
coffen street got rebuilt
state street
the whole public square
out franklin they are working on right now
mechanic
polk
Washington got resurfaced
boyd
the street by Petes
bellew
And that is just a list off the top of my head
11:28 you are fully of poopie!
So where is Sampie working??
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