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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1500680, member: 405"] Congel owns some of it, but it may only be an option with a deadline for development or else it can be taken back through eminent domain. I haven't kept close tabs on this in a couple years, but used to work as a real estate attorney for Pyramid. That would explain why they are out there pushing dirt from time to time, so they can claim that they have done site development work to keep the option alive. I don't think he will build on there unless 81 remains in place. Matt Driscoll just being appointed head of the DOT by Cuomo makes it pretty likely that Congel gets his way, and Route 81 becomes the big tunnel dig through there, despite anyone who doesn't have a vested interest saying that's the most expensive and least desirable option. It's going to flood all the time. At one point, the Barge Canal system took the land back, but then it may have changed hands to the local government again. [/QUOTE]