Chapter House fire last night/this morning

[Scersk '97]

Let's hope they get it right: tall ceilings, wood paneling, cozy front windows. Even if the walls have to come down, one hopes they can salvage the front facade woodwork on the first floor. no one makes thAt kind of stuff right anymore.

[Trotsky]

Let's hope they get it right: tall ceilings, wood paneling, cozy front windows. Even if the walls have to come down, one hopes they can salvage the front facade woodwork on the first floor. no one makes thAt kind of stuff right anymore.

If they are going to match a 1905 design, we could get a delightfully atmospheric rathskeller.

[David Harding]

Updating this list with the news that both Pixel and Stella's have closed for good this summer.

Current Collegetown spots with a bar:
Collegetown Bagels
Resurrected Rulloff's
The Nines
Dunbar's
Level B
Jack's Grill
Loco Cantina


RIP:
Palms
Dino's
Johnny's
Johnny O's
The Chariot
The Connection/Bear Den (College Ave)
Little Joe's
Pixel
Stella's

The Ithaca Voice reports on expectations for Stella's reopening.

[David Harding]

There's still some hope for the Chapter House.

The Ithaca Voice reports on preliminary plans for the Chapter House rebuild.  It's going to need approval from the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC), which can be quite prickly about maintaining the character of the original, before all the other approvals a new building requires.  I'd wager that it takes several months just to get through ILPC.  It's hard for me to imagine them hitting the target date of reopening in August 2016.  Here's an old photo (c. 1905) to compare with the new design.  Maybe the new design flies through.

[KeithK]

How is it that a building can remain a landmark after it burns down?

[David Harding]

How is it that a building can remain a landmark after it burns down?

Here the issue is one of maintaining the character of the neighborhood, the "East Hill Historic Preservation District".  

K.  Preparing a report or recommendation to other City boards and committees regarding plans and proposals that could have an impact on designated individual landmarks and/or historic districts;

See this story with photos on a new apartment building on a formerly vacant lot on Secenca Street between Quarry and Stewart.  https://brancra.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/707-east-seneca-street-construction-update-82015/  The new building is in the character of its neighbors.  Replicating the old building ensures that you're in character.  Here's an example of a replication of an old building on Eddy Street.  https://brancra.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/202-eddy-street-construction-update-62015/

[David Harding]

There's an "early design review" of the Chapter House rebuilding plans scheduled for Tuesday evening, 11/10/2015, before the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission.  Brian Crandall reports and comments.

[David Harding]

There's an "early design review" of the Chapter House rebuilding plans scheduled for Tuesday evening, 11/10/2015, before the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission.  Brian Crandall reports and comments.

And in the Ithaca Voice.

[David Harding]

There's an "early design review" of the Chapter House rebuilding plans scheduled for Tuesday evening, 11/10/2015, before the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission.  Brian Crandall reports and comments.

And in the Ithaca Voice.

The Chapter House rebuild design is evolving.  Brian Crandall comments.in his second bullet today.

[David Harding]

Chapter House rebuild approved.  http://ithacavoice.com/2016/01/chapter-house-rebuild-gets-the-green-light-from-ithaca-officials/

[jtwcornell91]

Well, crap.

Future Of New Chapter House In Doubt

[Scersk '97]

Well, crap.

Future Of New Chapter House In Doubt

Generally, absentee landlords are nothing but festering carbuncles on the body politic.

One wishes a cooperative of Cornellians and other interested locals could get together and remove such an important property from the clutches of these management companies upon management companies.

[jtwcornell91]

Well, crap.

Future Of New Chapter House In Doubt

Generally, absentee landlords are nothing but festering carbuncles on the body politic.

One wishes a cooperative of Cornellians and other interested locals could get together and remove such an important property from the clutches of these management companies upon management companies.

It seems like there ought to be some sort of posthumous landmark status that forbids the owners from building anything except a new Chapter House on that site.

[Rosey]

Well, crap.

Future Of New Chapter House In Doubt

Generally, absentee landlords are nothing but festering carbuncles on the body politic.

One wishes a cooperative of Cornellians and other interested locals could get together and remove such an important property from the clutches of these management companies upon management companies.

It seems like there ought to be some sort of posthumous landmark status that forbids the owners from building anything except a new Chapter House on that site.

Because it's well-established that the best way to get property owners to keep their properties from becoming blighted is to cap rents by limiting use. Just ask this scientician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB-JO2j7MEQ

[Trotsky]

Well, crap.

Future Of New Chapter House In Doubt

Generally, absentee landlords are nothing but festering carbuncles on the body politic.

One wishes a cooperative of Cornellians and other interested locals could get together and remove such an important property from the clutches of these management companies upon management companies.

It seems like there ought to be some sort of posthumous landmark status that forbids the owners from building anything except a new Chapter House on that site.

Because it's well-established that the best way to get property owners to keep their properties from becoming blighted is to cap rents by limiting use. Just ask this scientician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB-JO2j7MEQ

Oh, Kyle.  Never change.