WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.370 Okay, notice is here by given. 2 00:00:05.370 --> 00:00:10.409 That a public hearing pursuant to article 18 a of the New York state general. 3 00:00:10.409 --> 00:00:13.679 Will be held by the city of. 4 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:21.030 Utica industrial development agency on the 8th day of June 2021 at 930, local time. 5 00:00:21.030 --> 00:00:27.390 At University hall unit, the travelers building LLC on behalf of itself. 6 00:00:27.390 --> 00:00:33.359 And or the principles of unit, the travelers building LLC and or an entity. 7 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:37.560 Formed or to be formed on behalf of any of the 4 going. 8 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:46.170 Is applied to the agency to enter into a transaction in which the agency will assist in the acquisition partial demolition. 9 00:00:46.170 --> 00:00:50.549 Historic rehabilitation and renovation of an, an existing. 10 00:00:50.549 --> 00:00:56.340 39,000 plus or minus square foot, they can start industrial building. 11 00:00:56.340 --> 00:01:01.380 Into a mixed use building with 32 units of market rate residential. 12 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:06.840 Units and 10,000 plus or minus square foot of commercial space. 13 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:17.159 With the onsite parking situated on a point 94 plus or minus acre parcel of land located at 64 to 74 street. 14 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:20.670 The mailing address the 70 street. 15 00:01:20.670 --> 00:01:24.359 City of Utica county in New York. 16 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:28.469 And the acquisition and installation of equipment, and the improvements. 17 00:01:28.469 --> 00:01:40.620 And all for the adaptive reuse of the improvements to lease to commercial and or retail, and our residential tenants and furtherance of the downtown revitalization. 18 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:44.939 Initiative and the United account division 2020 initiative. 19 00:01:44.939 --> 00:01:50.310 To enhance economic development and retain employment in the downtown Utica. 20 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:57.840 In downtown year to the facility will be initially least operated and managed by the company. 21 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:03.209 Company owns the facility and will at least the facility to the agency and the agency will at least. 22 00:02:03.209 --> 00:02:13.740 Facility back to the company at the end of the lease term, the agency will terminate its lease hold interest in the facility. The agent agency contemplates that it will. 23 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:24.750 Provide financial assistance to the company in the form of exemptions from sales in use taxes, exemptions from mortgage recording taxes and abatement of real property taxes for a period of 12 years. 24 00:02:24.750 --> 00:02:31.199 Which proposed financial assistance represents a deviation from the agency's uniform tax exemption policy. 25 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:39.210 It'd be more particularly described in the final authorizing resolution to be adopted by the agency prior to the closing of the. 26 00:02:39.210 --> 00:02:43.710 Transactions here and keep the. 27 00:02:43.710 --> 00:02:47.039 Public hearing open for a period of 15 minutes. 28 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.180 And there are already comments, please make them. 29 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:54.659 Again, this is opened up to the public and whoever. 30 00:02:54.659 --> 00:02:58.889 Wants to jump in and I don't see that. There are. 31 00:03:02.550 --> 00:03:10.229 So, How's your weather port this morning here? 32 00:03:10.229 --> 00:03:14.219 My big ones. 33 00:03:14.219 --> 00:03:17.520 Yeah, we just got some rain and stuff coming in now. 34 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:25.800 You golf and okay I love to golf. I don't get out as much as I really want to, but. 35 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:28.889 Where do you guys point. 36 00:03:28.889 --> 00:03:32.490 I play anywhere, I can get out the same thing. I don't get out much at all. 37 00:03:32.490 --> 00:03:40.050 I play about once every 4 or 5 years. So, Tim, I haven't seen your place and it's like all of. 38 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:46.800 I'm playing August 16th for the 7 oaks and Colgate. 39 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:55.500 Oh, nice, Steve over buyer's got this group that he belongs to, like, 80 or 90 guys, and they go around different courses all around the state. 40 00:03:55.500 --> 00:03:58.949 See, I bring me that day. 41 00:03:58.949 --> 00:04:02.819 Got to get your snapshot, right? 42 00:04:02.819 --> 00:04:07.710 Sorry to get the timing. Now when you run at the ball. Hey, happy Gilmore. 43 00:04:07.710 --> 00:04:12.120 The timing. 44 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:19.829 It is yeah, I'm in a league over in the city. 45 00:04:19.829 --> 00:04:24.089 City golf course here so that's always the golf course. 46 00:04:24.089 --> 00:04:29.819 Value if you take street South. 47 00:04:29.819 --> 00:04:34.199 And then turn on to a memorial Parkway, take a left. 48 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:39.689 And leads, yep, same hill at the zoo is on. 49 00:04:39.689 --> 00:04:44.098 Are we run by that, Isabel and make it run by it? 50 00:04:44.098 --> 00:04:47.999 Correct, yeah, after the zoo you come over the hill and sound. 51 00:04:47.999 --> 00:04:53.608 Yeah, yeah, and then you'll come up to where the tennis courts are. 52 00:04:53.608 --> 00:04:59.668 In the ski, so is it, is it a par 3 or a normal course? 53 00:04:59.668 --> 00:05:06.059 Oh, no, it's a Robert Trent Jones back from probably the fifties or something. 54 00:05:06.059 --> 00:05:09.838 Oh, nice. Yeah. 55 00:05:09.838 --> 00:05:15.449 Right. Citi has a handful of par threes here in Syracuse and then. 56 00:05:15.449 --> 00:05:19.319 Um, city home courses, right right. 57 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:22.499 They don't have a full size. Course. 58 00:05:23.968 --> 00:05:27.838 I think Mark might have been a trend Jones. Course. 59 00:05:29.608 --> 00:05:33.269 And they originally had it I don't know about the. 60 00:05:33.269 --> 00:05:38.548 Yeah, yeah, I played a on of course. 61 00:05:38.548 --> 00:05:49.499 Like, 4 years, maybe it's been longer 4 or 5 years ago. There's like an East and West. I was like, yeah yeah I guess the. 62 00:05:49.499 --> 00:05:53.098 The college plays there. Yep. 63 00:05:53.098 --> 00:05:56.939 Yeah, it's actually is owned by Syracuse University. 64 00:05:56.939 --> 00:06:09.629 Right, right right. 65 00:06:14.939 --> 00:06:29.069 You know, Overmind or suckered me into my 1st, round of golf at a long time. I warned them I hadn't played since 2017, because usually happens. It'd be my best round of the year. The last time you played with us in Saratoga. 66 00:06:30.389 --> 00:06:36.658 I don't think I've played since think my last round was with Steve at. 67 00:06:36.658 --> 00:06:43.288 It's probably the same group, I guess, but I think we played it. 68 00:06:43.288 --> 00:06:47.908 Private club with the Indian name. 69 00:06:47.908 --> 00:06:53.939 I'll by you guys, Jack. Oh, the part of the, uh. 70 00:06:53.939 --> 00:07:05.728 Well, like I do, no, no, not at a private club. Uh, yada. Yada, da. 71 00:07:05.728 --> 00:07:11.908 So, we played around there, I think that was my last round that would have been like, August of 17 and then I. 72 00:07:11.908 --> 00:07:22.798 Happily quick golf where you, at least at the driving range before you go, or you just say, throw caution to the win and just say I heck with it. 73 00:07:22.798 --> 00:07:35.879 Depends on what time the time is if it's a good that you were going to go, like, maybe a few days before and not just an hour before it starts at 9. forget it. I can't make it. 74 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:43.379 If if I hit the, if I go to the driving range, anytime before this day of, I might really. 75 00:07:43.379 --> 00:07:46.408 Mess with my head. 76 00:07:48.149 --> 00:07:53.519 I do that they have and pressures off. Are you guys having the boiler maker this year? 77 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:58.288 October 21st it out until I want to say, September. 78 00:07:58.288 --> 00:08:02.309 Sometime maybe mid or late September. 79 00:08:03.928 --> 00:08:07.499 So, good 21st, they open our reservation so I'm waiting. 80 00:08:07.499 --> 00:08:11.819 12, and for some reason I did at 12 0 A. M. so I had to stay up late. 81 00:08:11.819 --> 00:08:22.649 I texted emailed the guy or the organizer and asked them if they were going to give any like a Pre registration option for people who stayed in and did last year's. 82 00:08:22.649 --> 00:08:26.519 Right, right my brother and I did that 1 together. 83 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.899 Went for a long virtual run. 84 00:08:30.899 --> 00:08:36.298 Yeah, I did from the comfort of my chair, I was just saying. 85 00:08:36.298 --> 00:08:39.538 It was virtually there though. 86 00:08:39.538 --> 00:08:44.428 What is it? A 15 K10 k50 K9 9.3 miles. 87 00:08:44.428 --> 00:08:48.119 Yep, yep, yeah, I've run it. I can do you run it a lot or. 88 00:08:48.119 --> 00:08:56.219 Yeah, I did it almost every year from 2002 until around 2010 and then I stopped running until. 89 00:08:56.219 --> 00:08:59.578 3 years ago I did, I did the last. 90 00:08:59.578 --> 00:09:06.778 2 years, and then this will be the 3rd year and I'm back doing it. Yeah. Good. Yeah, I run it in the past also. 91 00:09:07.889 --> 00:09:13.708 It's a lot of fun. It's the most fun race I've done. I've done marathons and stuff, but you guys really. 92 00:09:13.708 --> 00:09:17.698 Really get home run with that race. Yeah. Yeah. 93 00:09:17.698 --> 00:09:28.019 The yeah, what's nice is there is a ton of obviously a ton of community support businesses are out there. 94 00:09:28.019 --> 00:09:32.158 With tables of water or oranges and stuff, but then. 95 00:09:32.158 --> 00:09:36.479 You have different bands that play in different sections of the city and. 96 00:09:36.479 --> 00:09:39.538 For a little while. Awesome. 97 00:09:39.538 --> 00:09:46.198 You know, like a competition between North South East and West and center city. 98 00:09:46.198 --> 00:09:50.849 To who, you know, who did the best job and best music and best. 99 00:09:50.849 --> 00:09:55.379 Uh, entertainment fun for runners and so. 100 00:09:55.379 --> 00:09:59.729 My sympathy is always released. Yes. 101 00:09:59.729 --> 00:10:03.899 They get the toughest job at the moment. Yep. Yep. 102 00:10:03.899 --> 00:10:07.739 But going through and these 2. 103 00:10:07.739 --> 00:10:11.818 You you had run through and, uh, there that'd be playing golf. 104 00:10:11.818 --> 00:10:16.259 So, they would, they would stop you from the, uh. 105 00:10:16.259 --> 00:10:21.028 And they, they would stop the cards. 106 00:10:21.028 --> 00:10:32.578 And I'll let the runners go through and then you complete, then you continue your play and stuff but 1 year, a friend of mine and I, we, we ran the boiler maker. 107 00:10:32.578 --> 00:10:38.068 And a guy that we know had a, a golf tournaments. So as soon as we got done, we went home, we. 108 00:10:38.068 --> 00:10:41.879 Change got showered and then immediately when played golf. 109 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:54.839 And it's a, it's a fund raise to make, you know, Joe, I used to run, but I run after children. Now. 110 00:10:54.839 --> 00:10:58.198 I did a half marathon. It was awful. 111 00:10:58.198 --> 00:11:05.908 Well, then I'm going from 9.3 to 13.1 is all the difference in the world. 9.3 is. 112 00:11:05.908 --> 00:11:17.548 Enjoyable once you hit 10 miles, it's just not fun. It's funny. You say that? I made it to, like, 1010 and a half miles before I stopped and walk because I trained. 113 00:11:17.548 --> 00:11:25.408 In the winter in Syracuse, so I ran on a treadmill and I couldn't run more than 7 or 8 miles because I was so bored. 114 00:11:25.408 --> 00:11:29.068 And I only ran outside once in the snow. 115 00:11:29.068 --> 00:11:32.519 And then it was in D. C. and like, April. 116 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:37.619 And I made 910 miles strong and then I just hit a wall and I walked and ran. And so it just. 117 00:11:40.918 --> 00:11:45.839 Long distance is not my thing. I used to run 23 miles a day for based on. 118 00:11:45.839 --> 00:11:54.629 That's just a different kind of run, you know, that within about 20 minutes, you'll be done. Yes. 119 00:11:54.629 --> 00:11:59.879 I started off, I had learned over the years at the 1st, 2 miles in the worst 2 miles. 120 00:11:59.879 --> 00:12:03.778 So, I have to make myself get through those 1st, 2 and then I can keep going. 121 00:12:03.778 --> 00:12:13.019 Yeah, they say if whatever you typically train so if you if you train at 5 miles, most of the time. 122 00:12:13.019 --> 00:12:18.538 They say, in essence that you could run 10, you know, double that amount. 123 00:12:18.538 --> 00:12:22.048 And with marathons, I never go beyond 17 or 18. 124 00:12:22.048 --> 00:12:27.538 Pre race what is it? We just hurt myself. 125 00:12:29.698 --> 00:12:33.269 I hurt myself just thinking about that. 126 00:12:33.269 --> 00:12:38.788 I'm going to do Dublin hopefully next year, if Ireland is open for business. Really? 127 00:12:38.788 --> 00:12:51.178 Do you make it back there? Very often? I haven't been back. I went I went, like, every year in the early nineties when I was in college, in law school, and then I went from 97 and I have them back. I haven't been back since 97. 128 00:12:51.178 --> 00:12:54.839 When my wife and I went, so we're going to make a big trip of it. 129 00:12:54.839 --> 00:12:59.548 Nice nice. I have a couple friends. I think a call with my siblings might run it with me. 130 00:13:01.318 --> 00:13:05.129 I'll meet you if you'd like. 131 00:13:05.129 --> 00:13:08.369 Morgan, and I were talking about going and going back next summer. 132 00:13:08.369 --> 00:13:17.639 You want to read something really funny do a search. It's hard to find. Now it used to be easier, but do a search for Bill Simmons wrote a a minute by minute. 133 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:21.119 Like, timeline of his Boston Marathon experience. 134 00:13:21.119 --> 00:13:29.038 And it's from your perspective go it's hilariously funny. It's 1 of the funniest things I've ever. 135 00:13:29.038 --> 00:13:39.839 Was talking about his whole experience and all the stuff that happened the whole day. There'll be like, 805. this is where he was by 11 and then 12. it's just it's hilarious. 136 00:13:39.839 --> 00:13:44.908 I always like to find that and read it before. I do love races. 137 00:13:44.908 --> 00:13:55.859 It's amazing, you know, some of the elite runners, and, you know, you watch them go by and they're just they're. 138 00:13:55.859 --> 00:13:59.729 They're so bleed on their feet, you know, it's just. 139 00:13:59.729 --> 00:14:06.839 It, it almost doesn't look like they actually are touching or they're just the tips of their toes are are touching the ground and they just. 140 00:14:06.839 --> 00:14:13.019 Scooter right on bio like, how can you just run that fast? It's really amazing. 141 00:14:13.019 --> 00:14:16.589 I got left at the Boston half marathon. 142 00:14:16.589 --> 00:14:22.918 At miles 6 and a half, the guy you won, it was training for marathon. This guy from Kenya. 143 00:14:22.918 --> 00:14:27.208 And I'm just going along at my pace about 6 and a half miles and. 144 00:14:27.208 --> 00:14:39.264 This guy goes flying buttons and then the word made its way up through the crowd. That's the guy who won and he was running it again. I'm not even halfway yet. This guy just no, something's wrong with that. 145 00:14:41.663 --> 00:14:47.423 You won't believe how fast they're going when you're running. And this guy goes sprinting by you and I think that he's for 26 miles. 146 00:14:48.269 --> 00:14:52.708 It's incredible to watch how fast that face is it looks like a dead Sprint. 147 00:14:52.708 --> 00:15:01.859 We'd have, you know, it's almost you'd have to almost compare it to while you're driving on the Audubon and, you know, you're just driving at your 55 maybe 80 and. 148 00:15:01.859 --> 00:15:06.629 You know, Lamborghini or something comes by you at 140. 149 00:15:06.629 --> 00:15:20.788 And he's just, you know yeah, I'm just tool alone. Yeah. Cause he was probably a sub, 5 minute mile pace and I was going like, 945 or 10. so it was almost twice as fast as I was going. 150 00:15:20.788 --> 00:15:26.428 Well, gentlemen, we have hit our 15 minute mark. Uh, being that no 1 else has, uh. 151 00:15:26.428 --> 00:15:31.259 Uh, grabbed onto the onto the public hearing notice and. 152 00:15:31.259 --> 00:15:36.269 Is listening and there have been no comments. I will close the public hearing. 153 00:15:36.269 --> 00:15:41.908 Gentlemen, we'll keep logging along and thank you again for your investment in the city and. 154 00:15:41.908 --> 00:15:47.639 You know, there are times to here, looking forward to these projects and, you know. 155 00:15:47.639 --> 00:16:02.428 Do whatever we can to make it nice and smooth for check sounds great. Gentlemen. You have a great day. Good luck on the golf. I'm sure I'll be talking to you prior to that. And Joe, you take it easy. 156 00:16:02.428 --> 00:16:06.269 Jason, thank you, Jack. We'll talk soon. 157 00:16:06.269 --> 00:16:08.519 So, you guys.