North Side, Binghamton Grocery Project Set Aside

A group that selects revitalization projects in the region appears to be giving up on the once grand plans for a plaza and grocery store for the North Side of the City of Binghamton.

The Broome County Land Bank is recommending taking grant money from the stalled Big Lots Plaza project and moving it to community-advocated developments in Endwell, Windsor and Front Street, Binghamton.

A foreclosed lot at the Christ the King parochial school on Davis Street in Endwell is to be turned into a community garden.  That property has been vacant since it was damaged in the 2006 flood.

$50,000 would go to that project.

A property on Main Street, Windsor, now owned by the Village, is to be sold to a new business, with a part of it demolished and turned into parking spaces.

$45,000 is earmarked for the development.

Property vacant for five years on Front Street at the Downtown Gateway would be demolished by the First Ward Action Council and turned into green space.

$70,000 is targeted for the project that is adjacent to nine homes making up the Binghamton Gateway.

The New York State Attorney General’s office still needs to approve the proposals.