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Re: (erielack) Another one gone

The A&P site, recently referred to as the Chemung County Commerce Center, 
was sold to a California development agency about 3-4 years ago. They had 
made several unsuccessful attempts to use the building intact and rent it as 
storage space. Toshiba Pictures was using about 60,000 sq feet for tube 
storage. Toshiba closed their operations in Horseheads in the fall of 2004, 
and when that happened the discussions began about the demolition of the 
building and focusing on developing the land instead. Well as Will 
mentioned, the building over the past few months has come down and now the 
site is being prepared for what has been announced as the largest Wal-Mart 
Super Center to date - roughly 280,000 sq feet and basically several other 
undisclosed major retail chains and shopping centers.  The major obstacle to 
this is the highway structure and traffic issues and so both Chemung County, 
the Town of Horseheads and the Town of Big Flats are trying to come up with 
a good solution to the traffic issue.

    As for the railroad part of this whole deal - well all of the inbound 
sidings have been dug out and removed with no intention of being replaced.

- -Shawn



- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Shultz" <wshultz1_@_twcny.rr.com>
To: "Erie Lackawanna Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:40 AM
Subject: (erielack) Another one gone


> Another EL era icons is history. Over the past couple of months the former 
> A&P plant/distribution center in Elmira has been in the process of being 
> razed. When I went by today after last seeing it a couple of weeks ago, it 
> was completely gone. They are doing site preparation work for whatever is 
> to replace it (a parking lot?). I don't know what the plans are for the 
> site since I haven't keep up with the local papers. Maybe someone from the 
> Elmira area proper knows what the plans are for the site.
>
> For those who may not be familiar, this plant was a huge concrete 
> building, 1.2 million square feet if I remember correctly. It contained a 
> massive cold storage freezer used for frozen foods. I believe all rail 
> traffic to the plant was limited to inbound loads with trucks handling the 
> outbound loads. I'm not 100% certain of that though.
>
> Will Shultz
>
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