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Lawyers ask Syracuse board to cut assessments on 23 Destiny USA parcels, citing restricted parking use and contamination
Summary
Petitioners representing properties adjacent to Destiny USA asked the Syracuse Board of Assessment Review to lower tentative assessments on 23 parcels, saying 12 are parking lots attendant to the mall and 11 are vacant or billboard lots with environmental constraints.
Petitioners representing properties adjacent to the Destiny USA shopping center asked the Syracuse Board of Assessment Review on Feb. 26 to reduce tentative assessments on 23 parcels, saying most are either parking lots that serve only as overflow for the mall or vacant parcels with environmental cleanup obligations.
Jacob Sonner, an attorney with Phillips Lytle LLP, who appeared for the petitioners, told the board “there’s 23 total” parcels covered by the filings. He said the group can be divided into 12 parking parcels and 11 vacant parcels, and asked the board to consider the classifications and income evidence submitted with RP-524 grievances.
The petitioners’ materials list each parcel’s current tentative assessed value and the petitioner’s proposed fair market value. Examples read into the record included 450 Solar St., currently tentatively assessed at $392,000 with a…
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