A site two blocks from the Syracuse Inner Harbor — and the $100 million aquarium being built there — is the wrong place to put a concrete batch plant that would generate noise, dust and truck traffic 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The plant, at 411 and 421 Spencer St., is incompatible with plans to make the lakefront a center of tourism and recreation anchored by the aquarium.
The area is already home to a hotel, apartments and a taproom. There is lots of room to build more housing, restaurants, office space and retail — which has been the plan since the city acquired the harbor from New York state in 2011…