A Future Retail Gateway to Olean

Imagine my surprise to learn of brand new additional stores and restaurants are soon to begin as part of the future Olean gateway shopping complex. I honestly had no idea about this plan until this morning! Although no retail-based companies have committed to the project that I'm aware of, I was pleasantly surprised to have learned about this new development, pun intended. 

The land that is soon to be developed was previously an AGWAY chemical plant. State and city officials along with the help of others, have spent nearly the last ten years cleaning up the once abandoned site. The site (highlighted in the yellow circle) is actually in a prime location by having almost immediate access to I-86 as you can see below.

Credit to Google Earth for satellite view of the site.

The site planned to be built in phases with a hotel and some smaller retail building first on the east side of the property. Although I would love to see Target open up here, the big box space reserved is much to small for their standards.

Development plans courtesy of Loopnet

I'll be watching to see what happens here in the future! I leave you with a picture of what it looks like currently: