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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Utica Free Academy Class of 1967
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Chris Flagg
Still have a list of 1967 classmates we're looking for.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Utica Free Academy Class of 1967 - the fate of the old building
By REBECCA CRONISER
Observer-Dispatch
Posted Dec 29, 2008 @ 05:45 PM
UTICA —
The former high school that houses the Loretto Utica Center has yet to make it to the auction block.This comes more than six months after the lender foreclosed on the property. Mark McLane, a Utica attorney who was court appointed to conduct the auction of the former
Utica Free Academy on Kemble Street, said the auction date has been moved three times.It was first scheduled for July 23, but was later postponed “for undisclosed reasons.”McLane, of the law firm McLane, Smith and Lascurettes, said he was not involved in the proceedings or discussions between Loretto and its lender General Electric Capital Corp. to know why the auction dates were canceled.General Electric Capital Corp. foreclosed on the property June 19 for more than $29 million in mortgage payments, according to Oneida County Court records.“It's not unusual for the type of property involved,” McLane said about the auction postponements. “Even being without an auction date is not unusual. It can give the parties involved a chance to discuss things, but I assume I'll be seeing a reschedule date soon.”The Loretto project was designed in the early 1990s to displace poverty, crime, joblessness and other symptoms of urban decay. Several government agencies provided grants to Loretto for the rehabilitation of the vacant school.
Loretto Public Relations director Michael Connor said he did not know why the auctions were postponed, but said he wanted to assure people the center isn't going anywhere.”“There is ongoing financial restructuring in relation to the mortgage of the property and the building, but not the operation,” Connor said. “The programs and services are so vital to the Utica and Rome area. They are far removed from the restructuring process.”Syracuse-based attorney Jeffrey Dove of Menter, Rudin and Trivelpiece, who is representing the Loretto Center, did not return a call Monday.The center provides services to more than 250 senior citizens, and until this month, housed the Cosmopolitan Center in the rear of the building. The Cosmopolitan Center has filed for bankruptcy and is closing because of its own financial troubles.Connor said the center does not plan to expand into where the Cosmopolitan Center had been and is pursuing another tenant to share the space.An attorney for the lender has said the sale would not affect the tenants. David P. Martin, the lender's attorney, could not be reached Monday.
The state Department of Health will be involved if there is any sale of the property, department spokesman Jeffrey Hammond said. “Whenever there is any change in ownership, we work to make sure there is no change in the level of service the residents have come to expect,” he said.
Updated news for Utica Free Academy Classmates Class of 1967.
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Observer-Dispatch
Posted Dec 29, 2008 @ 05:45 PM
UTICA —
The former high school that houses the Loretto Utica Center has yet to make it to the auction block.This comes more than six months after the lender foreclosed on the property. Mark McLane, a Utica attorney who was court appointed to conduct the auction of the former
Utica Free Academy on Kemble Street, said the auction date has been moved three times.It was first scheduled for July 23, but was later postponed “for undisclosed reasons.”McLane, of the law firm McLane, Smith and Lascurettes, said he was not involved in the proceedings or discussions between Loretto and its lender General Electric Capital Corp. to know why the auction dates were canceled.General Electric Capital Corp. foreclosed on the property June 19 for more than $29 million in mortgage payments, according to Oneida County Court records.“It's not unusual for the type of property involved,” McLane said about the auction postponements. “Even being without an auction date is not unusual. It can give the parties involved a chance to discuss things, but I assume I'll be seeing a reschedule date soon.”The Loretto project was designed in the early 1990s to displace poverty, crime, joblessness and other symptoms of urban decay. Several government agencies provided grants to Loretto for the rehabilitation of the vacant school.
Loretto Public Relations director Michael Connor said he did not know why the auctions were postponed, but said he wanted to assure people the center isn't going anywhere.”“There is ongoing financial restructuring in relation to the mortgage of the property and the building, but not the operation,” Connor said. “The programs and services are so vital to the Utica and Rome area. They are far removed from the restructuring process.”Syracuse-based attorney Jeffrey Dove of Menter, Rudin and Trivelpiece, who is representing the Loretto Center, did not return a call Monday.The center provides services to more than 250 senior citizens, and until this month, housed the Cosmopolitan Center in the rear of the building. The Cosmopolitan Center has filed for bankruptcy and is closing because of its own financial troubles.Connor said the center does not plan to expand into where the Cosmopolitan Center had been and is pursuing another tenant to share the space.An attorney for the lender has said the sale would not affect the tenants. David P. Martin, the lender's attorney, could not be reached Monday.
The state Department of Health will be involved if there is any sale of the property, department spokesman Jeffrey Hammond said. “Whenever there is any change in ownership, we work to make sure there is no change in the level of service the residents have come to expect,” he said.
Updated news for Utica Free Academy Classmates Class of 1967.
NEXT REUNION DATES ?
Monday, November 3, 2008
UTICA FREE ACADEMY Christmas Ornament -Utica Landmarks Society
The Landmarks Society's 2008 collectible ornament honors a building sure to inspire nostalgia in those who were educated in its stone and brick classrooms throughout nearly nine decades.
This year's ornament commemorates Utica Free Academy.
In announcing its decision, President Michael J. Bosak stated: “The UFA building is very high in significance and importance, not only because of its architecture, but because of the lives that it touched and the sentiment it evokes”.
The Utica Academy, UFA's predecessor, opened in 1814 and was Utica's original secondary school. Several fires and community need eventually let tot the construction of the Kemble Street UFA building, which welcomed its first students on September 11, 1899. Another fire and population increases led to an expansion of the building that doubled its size by 1917. UFA closed in 1987. In the summer of 1995, the building re-opened for use as the Loretto Utica Center.
Purchasing The Ornament - The UFA ornament will become available at a special reception Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Loretto Utica Center, the former UFA on Kemble Street. Ornaments can be purchased at the event for $22 plus tax. They will also be available for purchase by calling the Landmarks Society at 315-732-7376; one the Landmarks' Web site, http://www.uticalandmarks.org/; and at several local retail outlets:
Lennon & W.B. Wilcox Co.
McHarris Gifts, Clinton
Dannella Photographic
Oneida County Historical Society
Munson- Williams -Proctor Arts Institute Gift Shop
Landmarks' Annual Collectible Ornaments - The Utica Free Academy ornament is eighth in the Landmarks' popular series that has included the Whitestown Town Hall, Union Station, F.X. Matt Brewery, Utica Public Library, SBU Bank, Hotel Utica, and Old Main. A limited supply of previous years' ornaments are available on the Landmarks' Web site. The Hotel Utica and Brewery ornaments are sold out.
UTICA FREE ACADEMY Class of 1967
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