Bersin Properties failed to meet a schedule of payments as well as investment, construction, and employment milestones.
Scott Congel
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What’s Medley’s worth? Apparently, $100k
The property, assessed at $7 million, sold for $100,000 to Angelo Ingrassia of “Vinnie and Angelo” Irondequoit Dodge fame.
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Could Medley Centre get a new owner?
Medley Centre could be sold at a tax auction on November 10. But as the public’s learned time and again with that property, predictions are foolish. Bersin Properties owns the dead and decaying mall in Irondequoit, and it still owes the county $1.2 million in property taxes from 2013. The way the whole tax-foreclosure thing […]
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Medley-go-round
The clock is running down on Bersin Properties, owner of Medley Centre. Bersin’s plan for the Irondequoit site includes a hotel and a possible theater for Rochester Broadway Theatre League. But the project has faced setbacks and controversy from the outset. Bersin has until May 1 to make $3.9 million in outstanding payments to the […]
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Morelle wants investigation of Medley’s state tax credits
State Assembly member Joe Morelle is calling for Empire State Development to investigate whether the Medley Centre project still is, or should be, eligible for its Empire Zone benefits. Developer Scott Congel bought the Irondequoit mall and the company that owns it, Bersin Properties, several years ago. Over the years, his plans for the mall […]
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Officials give Congel an ultimatum on Medley Centre
East Irondequoit school district and Town of Irondequoit officials are starting to talk tough to Medley Centre developer Scott Congel. At issue is a past-due $3.5 million penalty payment that Congel — through his company, Bersin Properties — was supposed to make to the district, town, and Monroe County Industrial Development Agency. The payment was […]
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East Irondequoit wants Congel to pay $4 million
When Medley Centre’s developer missed an investment milestone earlier this year, it was clear that he’d have to pay a penalty. Last night, the East Irondequoit school board provided some insight into what that penalty could be. According to media reports, board members voted to asses the developer, a firm owned by Scott Congel, a […]
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Officials will meet on Medley Centre issues
Next Friday, Medley Centre owner and developer Scott Congel will be in a room with representatives of the Monroe County Industrial Development Agency, the Town of Irondequoit, and the East Irondequoit School District. On the agenda: Congel’s failure to meet the most recent milestone in a tax incentive agreement. Congel requested the meeting, says Michael […]
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Medley Centre’s long odds
The biggest and possibly only physical change happening at Irondequoit’s beleaguered Medley Centre mall seems to be the grass growing through the cracks in the parking lot. That shouldn’t be the case. By now, Medley developer Scott Congel is supposed to have invested $165 million toward his vision of turning the dead mall into a […]
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Mayor: city will not go all out for theater
Don’t expect the City of Rochester to swoop in with a sweet offer to convince RBTL to build its new theater in downtown Rochester. If RBTL is serious about going to Irondequoit, Mayor Tom Richards says, it’ll go with his blessing. “I’m trying to be consistent with respect to what I think the civic responsibility […]
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[UPDATED] Yes, Rochester really would let RBTL go to Irondequoit
UPDATE: In a voice mail earlier today, RBTL board chair Arnie Rothschild said that the league has never attempted to raise money for a new theater, because city officials have never come out and said they want the theater. RBTL wouldn’t fund raise, he said, until the city made the theater project a priority. Rothschild […]
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