Liverpool — The building with the Corinthian-columned porch at 514 Oswego St., at the corner of Vine Street, has been extensively renovated under the direction of new owner Sohyla Ziaie.
She also owns Kashani Home Décor & Gifts, next door at 512 Oswego St., and last year Ziaie purchased the corner property that previously housed Antelmi-Fusco & Cazzola Insurance, which relocated last summer to 8035 Oswego Road (Route 57).
Two new businesses are moving in to the building Ziaie has named Corinthian Court.
On Jan. 26, Infra Rayz, managed by Tammy Speno, opened its doors upstairs at 514 Oswego St., offering organic spray-tanning treatments and infrared sauna sessions; infrarayz.com; 451-1411.
A hair salon called Styling Studio will move into the first floor during the first week of February. Come summertime, Ziaie hopes to open a first-floor teahouse along the Vine Street side of the building. A backyard patio is also planned.
Since last fall, Ziaie has appeared at monthly meetings of the village planning Board to move the new businesses forward. At the board’s Jan. 25 meeting, the planners voted to send her site plan’s ground-sign proposal to the City-County Planning Board for its opinion.
Ziaie told the planning board members that she was frustrated. “I’ve been coming here for the last four or five meetings, and I don’t need any more delays,” she said. The board members were concerned with the sign’s size — eight-a-half feet tall.
“That sign has been there for decades,” Ziaie said. “It should be grandfathered in.”
The house at 514 Oswego St. is approximately 110 years old. It was built as a Sears kit house in the early 20th century by owner Leonard Sherrer, according to Village Historian Dorianne Elitharp Gutierrez.
Dunkin’ makes another appearance
ESW Realty architect Bob Abbott made his second straight appearance before the planning board on Jan. 25 to discuss his client’s plan to build a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant at 105-113 Second St., where Seneca Savings and Venesky Appliances are currently located.
continued — Abbott displayed a new building design replacing a pitched-roof “colonial look” with a more streamlined and boxlike structure. The developer would also remove the existing pylon sign with a clock, he said, and replace it with a monument sign.
Village Attorney John Langey reminded Abbott that the Village Board of Trustees has scheduled a public hearing for 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29, to consider granting a special permit for restaurants, such as Dunkin Donuts, to operate a drive-thru window.
ESW Reality, owned by New England donut entrepreneur Ed Wolak, will not move forward with the Second Street project, Abbott said, unless it’s allowed to do drive-thru business there.
Dunkin’ Donuts already has eight restaurants in the Liverpool area — two on Route 57, two on Seventh North Street, one on Route 31, one in Great Northern Mall, one on West Taft Road and one on Henry Clay Boulevard.