Village planners hear Route 17M plans

MONROE — Several business sites on Route 17M, which have been vacant for sometime, are now before the Monroe Village Planning Board:

The roof cap of the former Pizza Hut on the corner of Route 17M and 208 which has been vacant for years, will soon be removed It will make room for the new occupant, the franchise restaurant Jake’s Wayback Burger.

Because the site has been vacant so long, the board recommended landscaping and paving repairs be made.

Plans are in the works for 1,500-square feet of the former 13,000-square-foot Rallye Auto’s service department building, located behind the Route 17M showroom, according to the village’s building inspector Jay Wilkins.

Shulem Brach’s plans call for 500 feet of the building to be used to house containers that are used for hauling construction debris. No debris will be stored at the site.

Another 5,000 feet will be used for a mail-order business.

The former Village Cafe, located across Route 17M from Rallye, is expected to be torn down.

A tire company, based in Red Hook, plans to build a new building to be occupied by Mavis Tires.

A 7,125-square-foot multi-purpose commercial building is proposed on a .9 acre site on Route 17M, adjacent to Fitzgerald Court.

The site, alongside Monroe Hospital, to be known as Colonial Plaza, will be operating an auto repair service.

A proposed strip mall, submitted by Alizera Moslem, is in the early stages of the planning board, said Wilkins.

The proposed shopping center is on Route 17M, across from Chase Bank on Gilbert Street. Plans call for retail business on the first floor and offices on the second floor.

The planning board revoked the verbal approval it gave several months ago to Liberty Collision Group and ASTAR who had plans to operate a vehicle auction business at the former Monroe Ford site.

The board said the applicant failed to comply with any of the conditions imposed by the board.

- Claudia Wysock