STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — If you have driven past the still-empty parking lot and shuttered strip of stores that is the hopeful future Staten Island site of a Raising Cane’s, you have likely noticed the site has not changed much.
Yet there was an update this week—sort of—about the location at the base of Richmond Hill Road and Richmond Avenue. Progress remains slow as the project continues to work its way through the approvals process.
A Raising Cane’s representative said Monday that it is still too early to confirm the Staten Island location, noting the development is waiting on entitlements. That refers to the period when a developer must secure required city land-use and zoning approvals before construction can begin…