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New Business and More Traffic At the Marshalls Plaza in Dewitt New Business and More Traffic At the Marshalls Plaza in Dewitt

By Jillian Andrews

Jillian Andrews:
Loud, busy and congested. That’s how the Marshalls Dewitt Plaza is looking at the moment.

Andrew Worden:
We have had some complaints that range from we just don’t know what we’re doing, to it’s nice but they can’t find a parking spot close to their destination

Andrews:
And there’s a reason there’s not enough space.

Worden:
They’re short in the sense that they don’t meet our town code.

Andrews:
For the parking area to meet code, there would need to be roughly over 15 hundred spots. However,the town approved under 13 hundred. How they plan to improve the overcrowding?

Worden:
They were going to try to enforce getting the employees to park in the back in the building where no one’s really parked back there.

Andrews:
Which is back here,however it doesn’t look like they’re being used yet. The Ski Company has been in the plaza for 12 years. Jim Longo is one of the employees.

Jim Longo:
Come in here at nine o’clock in the morning to get ready for work and all that, the parking lot it’s already… it’s hard to find some spaces.

Andrews:
But for businesses that have spent some time at the plaza.

Longo:
It’s not a bad thing

Andrews:
Blaze Pizza, Jersey Mike’s Smoothie King and Core Life, all make these older locations more successful.

Longo:
In general just the amount of traffic that comes through here, it’s certainly at least double if not more.

Andrews:
Another new property is already in the works and Longo is excited.

Longo:
From a retail standpoint, I don’t think it’s ever too much.

Andrews:
Jillian Andrews N-C-C News.

DEWITT, N.Y. (NCC News) – The Marshalls Plaza in Dewitt has experience substantial growth over the last year. These new businesses are making the plaza more congested.

Business opened in the plaza in the past six months:

There is a reason things are tight in the parking lot.

“They’re short in the sense that they don’t meet our town code,” said Andrew Worden, director of planning and zoning for the town of Dewitt.

For a shopping center this size, the town of Dewitt requires roughly 1,500 spaces. However, the town of Dewitt approved approximately 1,300 parking spots.

“They were going to try to enforce getting the employees to park in the back in the building where no one’s really parked back there,” Worden said.

The town also reasoned that the Syracuse Orthopedic Specialist located next to the plaza only has a full parking lot during the day. Therefore, when the customers and employees of that business leave for the day, parking spaces open, Worden said.

Jim Longo is an employee at The Ski Company. The Ski Company has had a store front in the plaza for twelve years.

Longo said it is more difficult to find parking in the mornings since the new businesses opened. Employees are now asked to leave premium parking spots near the store open for customer convince.

Despite the parking difficulties, the new traffic is helping The Ski Company.

“In general just the amount of traffic that comes through here, it’s certainly at least double if not more,” Longo said.

New properties are in the works and more businesses will be opening within the next year.

“From a retail standpoint. I don’t think it’s ever too much,” Longo said.

 

 

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