DeWITT — Eight months of renovation work have finished at the DeWitt Town Center as the 184,000-square-foot shopping center at 3179 Erie Blvd. East has added six new tenants.
That’s according to the Syracuse–based Icon Companies, a commercial real-estate firm, which organized an afternoon press event Tuesday to mark the end of the renovation work.
The event included a ribbon cutting for the newly renovated DeWitt Town Center and the Time Warner Cable office, the Icon Companies said.
Besides Time Warner Cable, the other new tenants, which will open for business “soon,” include Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park; Matthews Salon Spa; Pella, a window and door retailer; and Jreck Subs, a sandwich restaurant chain.
Pella is moving its window and door showroom from its current location at 2743 Erie Blvd. East in Syracuse, according to Graziano Zazzara, Jr., president and principal broker at the Icon Companies.
Another new tenant, Harbor Freight Tools, has opened for business.
Existing tenants include Five Guys Burgers and Fries; Taco Bell; and Empire Buffett; along with Oreck, which sells vacuum cleaners and other cleaning supplies; and the DeWitt location of Irving, Texas–based OrthoSynetics, a dental and orthodontic practice-management firm.
The tenants, including Time Warner Cable Business Class, collectively employ a total of about 600 people, according to the media invitation for the event.
For example, the Time Warner project will create 95 new jobs over the next four years and moves 171 existing Time Warner Cable Business Class jobs into the new facility, the company said last November.
That space had long been vacant.
It’s taken four and a half years of waiting for the “right tenant mix,” Graziano Zazzara, Sr. who owns the DeWitt Town Center, said in speaking with reporters at the press event.
“Thanks to New York state. They really gave Time Warner a great incentive to build, and fortunately it was here in DeWitt and they chose our center, which really was the catalyst to make this thing happen,” Zazzara said.
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