Party's Over! Owego Treadway Demolition Nears Completion

The site of the once-popular Treadway Inn conference center in Tioga County is being cleared in preparation for the construction of an Aldi grocery store.

The job of tearing down the 55-year-old event center started three weeks ago. The structure, which once featured ballrooms, large kitchens, a restaurant and a bar, is history.

Crews from Kingsview Demolition of Lakewood in western New York now are loading what's left of the building into trucks to be transported to a landfill.

A Jamestown-area company was hired to demolish the Owego Treadway Inn conference center. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)

Aldi has been planning to open an Owego store for several years. In 2017, the company had sought to launch an operation at the Scoville-Meno Auto Plaza property but that plan was scrapped.

Aldi continued its search for an appropriate site before settling on the Treadway Inn location on Route 17C.

A small section of a brick wall remained at the old Owego Treadway conference center on June 3, 2024. Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News

Demolition workers told WNBF News that hope to have the property completely cleared by the end of the week.

Construction of the Aldi store should get underway later this month. The company hopes to open the 19,600-square-foot grocery operation by the end of the year.

VIDEO: A look at the Tioga County demolition site on June 2, 2024.

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