![]() We’ll do everything we can to shorten that,” said Tom Trubiana, President and Director of EdR Trust. It became evident it would be delivered late, as much as four to six weeks late. “We took steps to accelerate the construction with LeChase using our checkbook, and we were hopeful we’d be able to catch up, and by the end of June, particularly July 3, we learned one of the buildings wouldn’t be delivered in time. That number matches the number of bedrooms that will be located in one of the larger apartment buildings, Building E at the corner of Maple Avenue and Veteran’s Way. The 106 students who will be displaced by the delay are all in the same building. A contentious debate with the Town of Ithaca last spring granted another work extension but also revealed the project would have to open in three phases from July into August, right as the academic semester begins. These weather delays also led some subcontractors to discontinue their work on Maplewood and take construction jobs elsewhere, to satisfy their crews’ need for five full paid days a week, something they are entitled to as part of their contract with the general manager, LeChase Construction.Ī s of last December, the project was reported to be 25 days behind schedule. The project team has been granted multiple extensions on the days and hours allowed for construction as a result of an unusually wet construction season during 2017. The problems with Maplewood’s build-out have been well documented. Delays in the delivery of part of Cornell University and EdR Trust’s new graduate housing complex will force 106 students to find alternative housing for the start of the fall semester. Maplewood is a very large project and was to be delivered on a very tight schedule – too tight, it seems. They are buried in the family cemetery plot near the northeast corner of the site, and the small burial plot will be preserved.ITHACA, N.Y. James and Lena Mitchell were the original owners of the land and started farming it back in 1802. Let’s finish this with a random fact – along with a new Veteran’s Place roadway, the new streets will be called “East Sylvan Mews”, “James Lane”, and “Lena Street’. After discussion among themselves and with local officials, it was agreed that Maplewood would pay full property taxes. For-profit EdR and non-profit Cornell have a deal where Cornell still owns the land, but EdR owns all improvements to the land. It’ll be the source of many gripes over the next year or so, but as a product, it checks off a lot of local desires – local construction labor, heat pumps and off-site solar, walkable environment, and unlike the old Maplewood, it’ll pay property taxes, over $2 million annually. Very little truck traffic will be coming from the west of Maplewood, since they’d have to go through the city of Ithaca. Maple Avenue is a secondary route and won’t be used as often for the trucks, so if you’re looking to avoid tractor trailers coming in and out, consider it as an alternative. Most of the trucks will be coming westbound down Mitchell Street, either from the south via Route 79 and Pine Tree Road, or from the north via Game Farm Road and Ellis Hollow Road. There’s also the possibility of getting stuck behind truck traffic. The Farmer’s Market at East Hill Plaza should be unaffected. ![]() Use extra caution when driving down Mitchell Street, especially around 7 AM and 3 PM. Most will be parking behind the Rite Aid at East Hill Plaza, and the crew will walk over to the site. Some will be directly employed by general contractor LeChase Construction of Rochester, but many will be subcontractors, including several local firms. ![]() Some buildings will be complete as others are only just starting construction.Īnother detail – during the real meat of the construction period, there will be hundreds of workers on site. Key takeaway – there are 27 buildings, and not everything is going up at once. The community center begins construction next fall, and the last townhouses will begin around Christmas, and a few weeks into 2018. While those are underway, the buildings on Maple Avenue will start construction during the summer, as will some of the interior strings of townhouses. The first apartment buildings to start construction are going to be ones on Mitchell, and those will begin during April and May, and be finished by late fall. Rather than spending pages going over all the details, but let’s focus on the rest of Ithaca, and what will happen.
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