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#1232091 - 11/07/10 01:26 PM
BJs Coming to Lansing
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newsman38
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Registered: 03/21/01
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Plan for BJ's store advances in Tompkins County
The plan for a tax swap to help bring in a new BJ's
big-box retail store near the Shops at Ithaca Mall is
moving to public hearings, after a 4-2 vote by the
Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency on
Friday evening.
Mall developer Eric Goetzmann wants to build the
BJ's store north of the mall on land formerly zoned
for low-density commercial, which didn't allow
retail. After a year's discussion, the Village of
Lansing changed zoning to allow BJ's, but only if
Goetzmann also builds senior housing and a
wetland and bird sanctuary nearby.
By Krisy Gashler •Staff Writer • November 5, 2010, 7:50 pm
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#1238159 - 12/06/10 03:01 PM
Re: BJs NOT Coming to Lansing?
[Re: newsman38]
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newsman38
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Planning Committee Declines to Recommend IDA Support of Lansing Development Project
The Legislature’s Planning, Development and Environmental Quality Committee, by a 3-2 vote, today failed to recommend Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) support for a mixed use development project in the Village of Lansing, adjacent to the Shops at Ithaca Mall.
The committee was asked to recommend that the Legislature approve IDA issuance of up to $2.3 million in Recovery Zone Exempt Facility Bonds for the Arrowhead Ventures project and to make available dedicated payments under a payment-in-lieu-of-tax (PILOT) financing agreement to pay debt service on the bonds or for other qualifying project costs.
The project, proposed by the Triax Management Group, would include a BJ’s Wholesale Club,12 units of senior housing, and expansion of a reclaimed wetland for bird habitat.
Legislators Frank Proto and Pat Pryor voted in favor of sending the matter on to the full Legislature; Legislators Will Burbank, Carol Chock, and committee chair Pam Mackesey voted no. The recovery zone bonds, made available as part of the federal stimulus program, expire at year’s end.
Despite the committee’s action, the Legislature will still have the opportunity to take action, through a member-filed resolution that is part of the agenda for the December 7 Legislature meeting.
12-01-2010
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#1238545 - 12/08/10 12:43 PM
Re: BJs Coming to Lansing
[Re: newsman38]
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newsman38
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Registered: 03/21/01
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County endorses financing for BJ's in Lansing
The Tompkins County Legislature on Tuesday approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes financing agreement for Arrowhead Ventures to develop a site with a BJ's Wholesale Club store, senior housing and bird sanctuary in the Village of Lansing.
The plan will go to the Industrial Development Agency for approval Monday.
Legislators debated extensively whether the county should support the plan before voting 8-6 in favor of it. Some said the big-box nature of BJ's is not in keeping with the atmosphere fostered in the county
By Liz Lawyer •elawyer@gannett.com • December 7, 2010, 10:20 pm
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#1239676 - 12/13/10 07:15 PM
Ithaca Pol Kills BJs Project
[Re: newsman38]
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newsman38
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IDA Rejects BJ's Wholesale Club Bond Proposal
The Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency Monday refused a developer's proposal to exchange delayed county taxes in exchange for a BJ's Wholesale Club at the Shops of Ithaca mall. Along with development of some senior housing in the Village of Lansing, the new store would have brought in an expected $750,000 in sales tax revenue and about 70 jobs.
Ithaca alderman Dan Cogan (5th Ward) reportedly was the deciding vote. In November, the IDA had approved swapping a 20-year tax delay in exchange for the senior housing, but Cogan said at the time he was not "comfortable with this body taking action to bring big-box retail to the county."
Monday, 13 December 2010 17:07
Ed Sutherland
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#1265087 - 04/01/11 08:36 AM
ICSD approves BJs store plan
[Re: Mean Gene]
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newsman38
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ICSD approves BJ's store plan
The Ithaca City School District voted in favor of the BJ's Wholesale Club project Thursday night.
The board voted 6-2 in favor of the project. Rob Ainslie, Judy Maxwell, Brad Grainger, Eldred Harris, Josh Bornstein and Jay True voted in favor of the project. Seth Peacock and Sean Eversley Bradwell voted against the project.
9:26 PM, Mar. 31, 2011
Written by
Rachel Stern
rstern@gannett.com
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#1288538 - 07/27/11 11:33 AM
Re: ICSD approves BJs store plan
[Re: newsman38]
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lazysummer
Member
Registered: 06/04/07
Posts: 21
Loc: Geneva
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What is the current status on the possibility of BJ's coming to the area?
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#1289556 - 08/01/11 10:56 AM
Re: ICSD approves BJs store plan
[Re: lazysummer]
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JuanxCarlos
Member
Registered: 07/31/11
Posts: 31
Loc: New York
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I HOPE BJ'S NEVER COME TO THE AREA. THAT'S WHAT I THINK. LET ME EXPLAIN MYSELF.
I hope BJ's never come to the area. I live in other area before here. Those area have the BJ's. Shady organization not for what they do, but what they are. They try to sell you your life we are HUMAN we are not to be wrestled like cows!
Let me advice you: grow your own foodstuffs. Grow your own close to wear. DO not trust stores. We can this world if we try. My gramparents once told me, "el queso del mercado no es bien, pero el queso de tu corazon es."
This mean that the market's cheese isn't good, but the cheese in your heart that you can grow is very good.
GROW YOUR OWN FOLKS! DON'T SELL YOUR SOUL TO BJ'S OR OTHER STORES BECAUSE OF PRICES, THEY ACHIEVE THESE PRICES, DO YOU HAVE SUSPICIOUS? I DO!
You cannot wholesale without MALPRACTICE. That is my THEORY do not take me for FACT but just GROW GROW GROW GROW WE DON'T WANT PROCESSED FOOD.
Oh no we don't.
Keep our REGION SAFE from THE BAD BUSINESS BUREAU THAT IS SUPERMARKET.
Your love,
Juan Carlos
Edited by JuanxCarlos (08/01/11 10:56 AM)
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#1321300 - 01/29/12 06:43 PM
BJs in Lansing
[Re: VM Smith]
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newsman38
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Registered: 03/21/01
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Loc: Fourth Estate
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Lansing BJ's open for business
Ithaca -- The new BJ's Wholesale Club in Lansing may be the 195th store in a chain of stores that can be found "from Maine to Miami," as General Manager Stephen Pane says, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a little local flavor to it.
The newly opened store is the only BJ's to have a natural and organic food section, and it will soon become the first to have an electric car charging station.
The store includes a full-service tire bay, a Verizon outlet and optical services. Nearly 100 people are employed at the store, with only two of them from out of the area.
Pane said that although BJ's is a wholesale store, it carries more "household-friendly"-sized items, rather than things like 55-gallon drums of mayonnaise.
Written by
Liz Lawyer
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