#1 DISTRIBUTION
CENTER SITE IS,
YES, SCHENEVUS
Engineers Pick It From 86
Sites With 2 Miles Of I-88
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, (and Otsego Now then-President Sandy Mathes) must have been prescient.
A little over three years ago, they proposed 130 acres of level land on a rise to the north of I-88's Exit 18 at Schenevus for a 250-500-job distribution center, the type used by Amazon, Dollar General, Walmart -- virtually every major U.S. retailer.
Today, after months of study, Adam Frosino, an engineer from McFarland Johnson, Binghamton-based consulting engineers, told the county Board of Representatives that 86 potential sites had been identified within two miles of Otsego County's nine I-88 exits. They had been winnowed down to 26, then 10, then five, then two.
Of those two, the reps selected ... the site championed by Oberacker and Mathes at the outset.
