Salina, N.Y. – A local developer is planning to turn an empty shopping center along Route 11 into a housing complex with about 150 units.
The town bought the five-acre site for $1.8 million earlier this year with the hopes of selling it back to someone who could reinvest in the property, which includes a former Big Lots and closed Pizza Hut, Salina’s former supervisor, Nick Paro, said in December.
Now Steve Case, who owns Acropolis Development, is working with the town to buy the site for $1.6 million. The purchase isn’t final, but Case told syracuse.com | The Post-Standard housing is a key part of his vision…