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A public hearing date is set as Auburn plans to apply for a $2 million Restore NY grant to rehabilitate a former downtown.
City Council plans to apply to Empire State Development for a grant to transform 120 Genesee Street, the former site of Chemung Canal Trust Company. Speaking on FLX Morning, City Clerk Chuck Mason said the site would be transformed from a bank into retail space.
“It’s always been a bank building for the last several decades in downtown Auburn; however, for the last five years or so it’s been vacant, and then the upper floors used to be offices,” said Mason. “The proposal is to turn the ground level into some type of retail use and then to turn the upper floors into apartments along with a rooftop deck.”
Mason added that, if awarded, work would quickly get underway.
The hearing will be held on May 9 at the regular city council meeting at 5:00p.
Last year, the city applied for Restore NY grants for both this property and the former Alco/Bombardier site on Orchard Street. Ultimately, $8.5 million was awarded for the Alco project.
