Seneca to buy two lots in Utica

Seneca will spend up to $40,000 to acquire two lots in the Utica area.  At their meeting this week, the Seneca Facilities Corporation voted unanimously to acquire the property. The lots are adjacent to the city’s electric substation and offer access to the city-county industrial park, which is the former Propex plant off Shiloh Road, explains Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander. “It actually joins the Propex property there.  We were contacted about one of the lots there if we might be interested in and so we started that process.  The Facilities Corporation has board members that are over the facility of the Propex property; they met this week and made a motion to purchase.  There are two pieces of property there that are owned by two different people.” Mayor Alexander said the additional access point to the industrial site would be a major benefit.  “It gives us an entrance from another road besides Shiloh Road and it is actually on the back side of the railroad track too.  So, it is an entrance and exit, it you needed to, it makes it a lot easier to get in and out of and it will connect to the substation there too.  The Facilities Corporation gave the go ahead to purchase that property, so we are going through that process.” The Seneca Facilities Corporation is now in the process of negotiating the purchase of both 109 and 111 Goddard Avenue.  One of the lots contains a home, but Mayor Alexander says the city intends to demolish it.