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It would be better for us to have a discount gas station and be able to save a few bucks on gas every year. There are already 4 other car washes in town, Curry Rd, 2 on Altamont Ave, 1 on Guilderland Ave, I don't think that we need another one.
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Gas station plan out, car wash in
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

   Though two aging houses off Burdeck Street were recently demolished and the land has been cleared, plans for a gas station on the site have been scrapped.
   BJ’s Wholesale Club and businessman Randy Brenner had originally proposed a 10-pump gas station with a three-bay car wash for the 1.34-acre lot near the Campbell Road intersection, about a quartermile away from the company’s discount store. The project was to go before the Town Board last year for review, due to its size and proximity to the Great Flats Aquifer.
   But the issue never came to a vote and the property was eventually sold, Town Planner Peter Comenzo said. The land, in addition to an adjacent 0.82-acre lot, was purchased by Josepha Longo, who is apparently reworking the projected use.
   “They’re coming up with a plan to redevelop that corner,” Comenzo said. “So far, the only thing on the radar is a car wash.”
   The single-family residences at 500 and 508 Burdeck St. were cleared earlier this month to make way for the car wash, which is approved for the corner lot at Burdeck Street and Campbell Road. Plans to construct a Dunkin’ Donuts — another proposal once floated for the property near the car wash site — have since moved to a property off West Campbell Road near Rotterdam Square Mall.
   Plans for the Dunkin’ Donuts are expected to be pitched at today’s town Planning Commission meeting for the property where Flying W Caps Inc. is now located. Paul Camelo, the owner of Dunkin’ Donuts shops at the Five Corners and Broadway in Schenectady, proposes to build another eatery on the 0.85-acre property.
   Planning Commission members are also slated to hear conceptual plans for an 8,700-square-foot restaurant and banquet facility on three acres of land where the former Main Florist once stood. Owner Frank Popolizio is also planning to build a 3,000-square-foot retail building there.
   Comenzo said both projects are still in their infancy and require a number of town approvals due to their location near the aquifer.
   “They’re both concepts at this point,” he said.  


  
  
  
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A car wash isn't really a bad idea, but I don't really know if Rotterdam really needs another one.
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Gee, think of it, Mobil got moved away from I-890 because it may have polluted the drinking water, so it was moved to the top of the hill, where it could slowly drip down.  Now, they want to take the gas that's already spilling and seeping into the drinkig water from the top of the hill adadd all different types of "cleaners" to it before it makes it's journey down the hill.  Yay.

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Well said BK.....Welcome to Rotterdam!!!!

Better stock up on that bottled water!


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Gas station plan out, car wash in
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

   Planning Commission members are also slated to hear conceptual plans for an 8,700-square-foot restaurant and banquet facility on three acres of land where the former Main Florist once stood. Owner Frank Popolizio is also planning to build a 3,000-square-foot retail building there.
   Comenzo said both projects are still in their infancy and require a number of town approvals due to their location near the aquifer.
   “They’re both concepts at this point,” he said.
  

Don't worry about the gasoline or the cleaning solution from the car wash, it will just all mix with the other junk the resturant/banquet facility will add to our drinking water. And you can just bet that this will be a major issue when and if it developes past the concept point!





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I sure hope that the friends of the aquifer are on top of this.
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The Friends of the Aquifer yes....but  more importantly, our elected officials should be on top of this!


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If it means more money in taxes for the town it appears to me that our elected officials will eventually approve it.
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We do need a car wash over there for all the MFRH for the elderly and boomers, and all their cars.....unless they come up with a bus called-----Boomers Bus.....which drives them all over town shopping.....I suppose for one outing it could ride through the car wash and everyone can take pictures.....gotta do something exciting for retirement....


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