Report: Cayuga Community College Expansion Stalls Because Tops Sold The Site To Someone Else

by Contributor | May 28, 2010 9:20 am

The Citizen of Auburn reports that the planned expansion of Cayuga Community College’s Fulton campus is on hold because of a surprise development:  Tops sold the closed P&C store that CCC wanted to a Syracuse law firm.

The college announced with great fanfare its plans to take over the former P&C Foods store at River Glen Mall along Route 481, along with as many of the closed smaller shops as it could get and perhaps a triangle of land just south of the plaza, in order to build a new campus big enough for its needs.

College officials held briefings for staff and local officials on the expansion plans as recently as a few weeks ago.

The current Fulton campus is also located in a former shopping plaza store, but is bursting at the seams with students and lacks room for offices for services.

The Citizen reports[1]:

“(O)n May 14 Tops sold the property to a Syracuse-based law firm, Messenger & Elliott, for $700,000, according to documents from the City of Fulton Real Property Office.

Daniel Larson, the college’s president, summarized his sentiment about the sale as “certainly disappointed.”

“No one likes to be told after having spent time and effort on a project like that that someone else has received it,” said Larson.”

The college does not yet have state funds committed to the project.

The report indicates that the buyer intends to develop the property.

Prior coverage:

• Cayuga Community College Seeks To Buy P&C, Move Growing Fulton Branch To Bigger Home[2]
• Money For College’s Fulton Expansion In Governor’s Budget[3]
• P&C Purchase Would Make College Permanent in Fulton and ‘Masters of Our Own Destiny’[4]

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