Thursday, April 25, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
BY ADAM ATKINSON North Country This Week CANTON – A McDonald’s Restaurant may finally be coming back to Canton. The St. Lawrence County Planning Board is expected to once again do a full review …
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BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
CANTON – A McDonald’s Restaurant may finally be coming back to Canton.
The St. Lawrence County Planning Board is expected to once again do a full review of a site plan for a proposed construction of a McDonald's Restaurant in the general commercial district at 111 E. Main St.
The board will look at the plan at their meeting Thursday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. in the second-floor conference room at 49 1/2 Court St.
The board is expected to do a full review of a site plan for a proposed construction of a McDonald's Restaurant at the site near the Price Chopper store, between the entry to that plaza parking lot and the Mobil station just to the east.
Plans for a new McDonald’s at that site were first proposed back in late 2014 and the county planning board reviewed a site plan for a restaurant there at that time. However, the project never moved forward.
A McDonald’s restaurant at 64 Main St. next door to the municipal building closed at the end of 2015. That franchise, which had been in operation for 37 years, did not have a drive-through window. The McDonald’s corporate office said the 64 Main St. location was one of over 100 “underperforming franchises” that were shuttered that year.
The 64 Main St. building has remained vacant since and several ideas have been floated to reuse the building or the space over the years. A recent needs assessment of the municipal building next door, offered a strategy for the village and town to acquire the lot and building for rehabilitation and use or provide space for an addition to the existing municipal building.
McDonald’s Corporation, under the name Lettuce Feed You Inc., is still listed as the owner of the 64 Main St. site which is assessed at $350,000.
Planning board members will also participate in a land use training session titled "St. Lawrence River Shoreline Resiliency Study and NYS Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative."
Other full reviews the board will consider include an adoption of a development district map in Fowler.
