ITHACA -- Despite the recent stock market
decline, Cornell University's President Hunter Rawlings III told
a room full of Ithaca Rotary Club members at their monthly
meeting Wednesday afternoon that the school would proceed with
all of its construction and pay increases for staff and faculty
announced last year.
In a short speech touting Cornell's recent economic and
in-kind contributions to the community, Rawlings said that a
developer has not yet been selected for its planned $17 million,
130,000-square-foot office building downtown.
Rawlings said they are still reviewing proposals from three
different developers: Integrated Acquisition and Development
Corporation of Ithaca, Pioneer Companies of Syracuse, and
Ciminelli Development Company of Buffalo.
Cornell Real Estate Office director John Majeroni said the
university must determine its desired downtown location for the
office building before it can announce the developer. He said he
did not know when that announcement might come.
The locations Cornell has said it is considering are the
Tompkins County Trust Company site at 110 N. Tioga St. and the
site of the former Ithaca Town Hall at 126 E. Seneca St.
The office building, which would be owned by the developer
and not Cornell, would ultimately bring 300 university employees
and 200 other office workers downtown.
Rawlings also discussed plans for demolishing the class hall
dormitories on West Campus as part of the school's West Campus
Residential Initiative. The City Planning and Development Board
is holding a public scoping session on the project's
environmental impact at 6 p.m. on April 10 in the Second Floor
Conference Room of City Hall.
None of Cornell's historic Gothic halls will be the target of
a wrecking ball.
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