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Vacant Spaces: What Should This Building Be?

An occasional feature - as vacant spaces surface - asking what the community would like to see open in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow.

Vacant commercial buildings - a sign of the times. Instead of waiting for a proposal to pop at a zoning meeting to find out the use, Patch is getting proactive and engaging our communities around these properties.

When an interesting property surfaces, we're asking residents what they would like to see there - a coffee shop, movie theater, pizza joint, bank, or something really different?

From there, we take the community feedback to the property owner and/or town officials to see what they think, perhaps picking up some interesting history along the way. 

First we visited , a site that generated plenty of interesting feedback. Now let's visit the biggest of the many vacant storefronts on Broadway:

45 N. Broadway

Our second building up for lease, and debate, is the former Tarrytown Gourmet space on North Broadway, an expansive open floorplan with over 11,000 square feet (the total of two floors available) and the use of the large back parking lot.

We’ve already heard a few requests for a Trader Joe’s. What would you like to see open up here? Far-fetched or realistic, we'd love to hear your opinions. Then we'll see where they lead us.

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Just a short thought to get the word out quickly about anything in your neighborhood.
Share something with your neighbors. Write a new post... What's up? Make an announcement, speak your mind, or sell something
Stephanie Segarra May 20, 2013 at 04:56 pm
it happens all over..even whole food! check every date!!!!!!!
Krista Madsen (Editor) May 20, 2013 at 10:42 am
Has this happened to others? black juice...ewww! Thanks for writing.
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Krista Madsen (Editor) May 20, 2013 at 10:44 am
Thanks Blanca for posting. Again contact: medibeads@gmail.com if you want to hear more about gettingRead More a beading party hosted by Blanca Medina. Here's more on her on Patch: http://tarrytown.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/would-you-like-to-learn-how-to-do-this
Krista Madsen (Editor) May 18, 2013 at 02:50 pm
sounds like great stuff, thanks for posting!
Peter Neidell May 18, 2013 at 08:48 am
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE TO ABOVE: Sale is Sunday only- 10 am-3 pm thanks!
Heron May 20, 2013 at 06:28 pm
A big part of the problem is that the teachers' expectations about what supplies are necessary haveRead More become so extreme. When my kids were in school in Tarrytown, we would get a list at the beginning of every school year of the supplies we needed to buy. The parents were asked to buy a separate looseleaf binder for every single class our kids were taking and, for some classes, they asked for a looseleaf AND a spiral notebook. When I was in school, each kid had ONE looseleaf and we separated classes with dividers. Having SIX or seven loose leafs adds to backpack weight and costs a lot of money. My kids supply bills were often close to $100 apiece. The teachers have bought into this idea that all of these supplies are necessary and they are not. I'm not surprised that Staples is offering "rewards programs." Their advertising and marketing efforts have convinced the teachers that you must have a package of 12 red correcting pens, per child.
Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown Chamber May 14, 2013 at 04:25 pm
Congratulations to JoAnne Murray and Willaim Burnette the honorees. Your service and support of theRead More Salvation Army is applauded.