Town of Henrietta steps in to fix massive potholes at South Town Plaza

Massive potholes successful the parking batch of Henrietta's South Town Plaza had been a occupation for a while.

On 1 juncture earlier this year, municipality Supervisor Stephen Schultz observed drivers slamming connected their brakes to debar them.

So, Henrietta officials gave spot proprietor Mason Asset Management an ultimatum: Fix the potholes by 1 p.m. March 11, oregon the municipality volition hole them and measure you for the cost.

The Great Neck, New York-based steadfast did not conscionable that deadline, truthful successful precocious March and aboriginal April, Henrietta crews stepped in.

Potholes astatine the plaza entrances and successful parking batch driving lanes had go “extreme,” posing a information to motorists and their cars, Schultz said by email. “We gave the owners of South Town Plaza ample clip to repair them. They did not. And so, to support the public, we went successful and repaired them and are sending the measure to the plaza owners. If it remains unpaid by year’s end, it volition beryllium levied against their spot taxes.”

The outgo amounted to astir $10,000, Schultz said.

In opposition to South Town ownership's non-response, helium said, wrong a week of notifying the absorption of the Walmart Supercenter, 1200 Marketplace Drive, that potholes connected its spot needed to beryllium repaired, “they not lone filled the potholes, but did a afloat mill and repave to make a safe, creaseless driving aboveground to support the public.”

Nearly 70 years old, South Town astatine 3333 West Henrietta Road was a large buying destination during its archetypal fewer decades. These days, it looks dingy, has a fig of ample vacancies and is astir to suffer cloth and crafts store Joann arsenic portion of that retailer’s bankruptcy case.

Last fall, successful hopes of injecting caller beingness into South Town, Henrietta officials amended the municipality zoning codification truthful the spot could grow beyond retail to see specified tenants arsenic self-storage facilities and affordable apartments. So far, thing has happened connected that front.

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This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Henrietta NY steps successful to hole monolithic potholes astatine South Town Plaza