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Pictured is the former Hideaway Bay Restaurant & Lounge . Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp. officials have been working for five years to redevelop the former restaurant site.
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SILVER CREEK The redevelopment of a former lakeside restaurant continues to move forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gina Paradis, Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp. executive director, said the Hideaway Bay redevelopers Adventure Sports Development & Tundo Construction are meeting with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Silver Creek Village officials to sort out the logistics and to do site preparations.
“It’s moving along. Hopefully we will see groundbreaking before winter,” Paradis said. “It will depend how quickly everything comes together, but it certainly feels good to see it moving forward, especially with this group of developers. They are really moving forward with environmental stewardship and it’s a plan the commun
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SILVER CREEK The redevelopment of a former lakeside restaurant continues to move forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gina Paradis, Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp. executive director, said the Hideaway Bay redevelopers Adventure Sports Development & Tundo Construction are meeting with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Silver Creek Village officials to sort out the logistics and to do site preparations.
“It’s moving along. Hopefully we will see groundbreaking before winter,” Paradis said. “It will depend how quickly everything comes together, but it certainly feels good to see it moving forward, especially with this group of developers. They are really moving forward with environmental stewardship and it’s a plan the community can get their arms around.”
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Volunteers gather in a parking lot along Forest Avenue to participate in a community clean up last fall.
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A collaborative effort to clean up areas of the city of Jamestown has set its first event of 2021.
Gina Paradis, Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp., told The Post-Journal the first event of the Hands On Jamestown Neighborhoods will be held in April, with a focus on the west side of North Main Street between Fifth and 11th streets. She said this is the first of seven neighborhood cleanup events that will be held this year. She added the second cleanup event will be held and May, with a focus on the downtown business area. The specific dates of the two cleanup events will be announced at a future date.
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The Jamestown Urban Renewal Agency has agreed to continue a contract for demolition services with the Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp.
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The Jamestown Urban Renewal Agency (JURA) will continue demolition services for the Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp.
On Thursday, JURA held its first meeting of the year and approved continuing a contract with the land bank for demolition services for $850,000. Crystal Surdyk, city development director, said the continuation of the contract dates back to an agreement made in 2018.
“We are most of the way through the contract,” she said. “We will wrap up any properties left for demolition. (The contract) is in its last year. We just need to approve a continuation.”