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Lowville trustees to review lot plan
FOUR-CORNERS SITE: Designer to discuss concept for revival of area hit by '99 fire
By STEVE VIRKLER
TIMES STAFF WRITER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008
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LOWVILLE — Village trustees on Wednesday will see a conceptual plan for the vacant four-corners lot.

Benjamin N. Tabolt, a May graduate of Syracuse University and now an architectural designer at Bernier, Carr & Associates, Watertown, is slated to present his vision for the lot at Dayan and South State streets at the 5:30 p.m. Board of Trustees meeting at the village office on Dayan Street.

Mr. Tabolt, also a Beaver River Central School graduate, developed the conceptual plan as part of his senior architectural thesis in college, Village Administrator Eric J. Virkler said.

Mr. Virkler said the then-architectural student discussed the corner lot with him and corner committee member Gordon H. Allen before developing the plan. However, the ideas are strictly Mr. Tabolt's, he said.

The 17,185-square-foot lot, which has six owners, was cleared by a block fire in 1999.

Village trustees in January 2005 created a citizens committee to help promote development on the lot and later, at that committee's recommendation, took out a purchase option on the parcels for $210,000. However, trustees have allowed the option to expire, leaving the lot to continue as a spot for a hot dog vendor and signs touting political candidates and community events.

The state Department of Transportation's long-awaited Route 12 reconstruction project through the village is to include the widening of Dayan Street at the main intersection, which would shrink the size of the lot slightly. That $6 million project is to begin in spring 2010.

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