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Demolition of Scott Ford building will pave way for new Taco Bell restaurant

Posted 6/17/17

By CRAIG FREILICH POTSDAM – Demolition of the old Scott Ford building at Market and Sisson streets and a house behind it on Sisson could begin next week to make room for a new Taco Bell restaurant. …

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Demolition of Scott Ford building will pave way for new Taco Bell restaurant

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By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM – Demolition of the old Scott Ford building at Market and Sisson streets and a house behind it on Sisson could begin next week to make room for a new Taco Bell restaurant.

Code Enforcement Officer Lisa Newby said her office is waiting for a report from Bohler Engineering before she can issue a building permit.

Newby said the permitting process was delayed while the state Department of Transportation considered curb cuts for the restaurant along Market Street, State Hwy. 56.

Steve Pinkerton, an Ogdensburg native who runs Hospitality Syracuse, Inc., told the village Planning Board last October that was purchasing those two properties and wanted to open one of the quick-serve restaurants there.

A zoning change required to allow the restaurant there was put off in November when the village Board of Trustees could not muster a quorum to act on the request. Later in the month, a vote by the board approved amendment of local law to change the zoning at 3 Sisson St. from residential designation R-1 to business category B-2.

That allowed the house parcel to be combined with the next-door auto dealer land to build there, across Sisson Street from SeaComm Plaza.

In February, the St. Lawrence County Planning Board unanimously approved a site plan for the Taco Bell.