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‘Share the Love’ NAMOW gift drive runs through Dec. 14 Over the past 15 years, Subaru has given more than $250 million to local charities through its “Share the Love” campaign. Through Jan. 3, 2023, Subaru will donate $250 for each car sold
or leased to a charity of the customer’s choice: Meals on Wheels, ASPCA, Make-a-Wish or the National Park Foundation. The donations are passed on to the local arms of each charity. One of those local charity branches is North Area Meals on Wheels, located in North Syra-
cuse. Each weekday, NAMOW delivers more than 400 meals to clients in Cicero, North Syracuse, Liverpool, Mattydale, Brewerton, Clay, Bridgeport and Baldwinsville. The 2020 Share the Love campaign “enabled NAMOW to deliver an additional 1,391 meals to our local
Micron
CenterState CEO’s Rob Simpson answers entrepreneurs’ Micron questions By Ashley M. Casey Associate Editor
While Micron won’t break ground on its first of four chip fabs in the town of Clay until 2024, Central New York entrepreneurs are already looking at the tech giant’s impact on the region’s business community. Real estate broker Chip Hodgkins hosted a virtual Q&A session Nov. 16 with Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO. In light of the Micron news, Simpson said CNY business owners have to let go of their former assumptions about doing business in the region. “We’ve always been stable in a slow-growth community, and all of a sudden there’s projections of 8, 9, 10% growth,” Simpson said. Simpson said his “phone is ringing off the hook” with calls from companies who want to move to Upstate New York. Some of those calls are from firms that once considered CNY but opted to take their business elsewhere. “They have a renewed faith in Central New York,” Simpson said. Read on for some of Simpson’s insights:
Construction careers
Previously, many construction jobs were considered temporary, Simpson said. With Micron’s vision spanning 20 years, those jobs can become construction careers. Site work at White Pine Commerce Park will begin in 2023. Between Micron and the reconstruction of Interstate-81, construction workers will be in great demand starting in 2024. Micron estimates it will need 5,000 people each year to build the megafab.
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“2024 is when the major impact [of] this project is going to start,” Simpson said. Micron has pledged to spend 30% of construction expenses on New York State Certified Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs) and Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses. Hodgkins noted that the 5,000 construction workers will need somewhere to live: they will stay in hotels, rent apartments and in some cases purchase homes. The town of Salina is home to many hotels. Town officials have long expressed concern about the I-81 project diverting business from the hospitality sector there, so workers building out Micron’s facilities could be a boon. Simpson, who grew up in the Utica area in the 1990s, said he was told he would have to leave CNY to succeed. With the coming revitalization of CNY, his 10-year-old son will someday have the choice of staying here.
The future of Fulton
As supply-chain companies and employees move to CNY en masse, there will be “concentric circles” of business influence, Simpson said. “Central New York is front-page news, not just in the U.S. but around the world,” Simpson said. Real estate investors might first focus on Clay, Cicero and Baldwinsville, but the next frontier of the housing market could be Oswego County. Since the city of Fulton is about the same distance to the Micron site as the city of Syracuse is, Simpson and Hodgkins said this could be an opportunity to rejuvenate Fulton. “‘The city with a future’ might actually have a Micron l Page 10
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North Area Meals on Wheels is collecting holiday gifts for its roughly 300 clients as part of Subaru’s “Share the Love” fundraising campaign. seniors,”NAMOWExecutiveDirector Jennifer Covert said. To mark the occasion of Subaru’s Share the Love initiative, NAMOW is collecting holiday gifts for its clients now through Dec. 14. “Many of our senior clients are homebound and do not have
any family or friends. We make sure that each and every one of our folks receive at least one gift during the holiday season, and for some it will be the only gift they receive,” Covert said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NAMOW l Page 11
The Kabob House now open
After a false start on Nov. 4, doors swing open permanently on Nov. 14 By Russ Tarby Contributing Writer Liverpool villagers have been patiently waiting for more than six months for The Kabob House to open for business. On Monday, Nov. 14, the freshly renovated restaurant finally swung open its doors at 409 Tulip St. Syracuse restaurateur Malik Aboshreakh and his wife, Faye, owners of the Mediterranean Combo on Marshall Street in Syracuse, originally hoped to open The Kabob House in the month of May at the old Pizza Villa location. Since then, the place has undergone serious remodeling which included installation of sophisticated chargrilling units, which may have slowed the process somewhat. It opened briefly on Friday, Nov. 4, but closed the next day to iron out some operational wrinkles, before re-opening Nov. 14. The new middle-eastern restaurant enjoys a prime Liverpool location at the corner Tulip and Oswego streets. It’s furnished with about a dozen long, dark wooden tables. A well-lit large glass case near the entrance displays varied desserts. During the last week of October new signs went up in the windows at the site announcing a
planned November opening. And the owners were seeking staff, specifically servers, prep cooks and experienced chefs; 470-6518462. The Kabob House menu offer meals you can’t buy anywhere else in Liverpool. Its entrees include a chicken shawarma bowl featuring fowl over rice, French fries, salad, hummus and sauces. Shawarma is the ancient Turkish practice of grilling a vertical stack of meat slices – usually lamb, mutton or beef – which is then carved off its outer edge as it cooks. Customers who order kebbeh will enjoy its fried ground beef and bulgur balls stuffed with meat and onions, all served with pita bread and white sauce. Others will order gyros, falafel and grape leaves. And vegetarians will revel in fresh greens in the tabbouleh salad, Arabic salad or yogurt cucumber salad. And diners with a sweet tooth hope that The Kabob House will serve a dessert which the Aboshreakhs created at their Syracuse University location: chocolate baklava. The Kabob House’s hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, except Friday and Saturday when it’s open 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.; thekabobhousecny.com; 315-314-7171.
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