Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - What's in Store around central New York? A couple new restaurants, and a waiting game for commuters in one of the northern suburbs who've lost their gas station for the time being.
On Erie Boulevard East, where the old Bennigan's used to sit, a new Japanese steak house will soon open.
Koto Japanese Steak House could be open by the holidays, but manager Will Cheung tells us it all depends on how quickly they can button things up with construction and finishing touches.
This marks Koto's entry into the Syracuse market. The chain has other restaurants in the
Albany area and in New England. Chung says the steak house will have a sushi bar, 14 hibachi tables and private banquet rooms.
At Taft and Buckley roads, people who normally use the Sunoco station there have been driving somewhere else to get gas for a week or so, and we’re told you'll have to keep doing that for about another week or so.
A Sunoco spokesman says they continue to replace the older pumps there with newer equipment. The upgrade, he says, is normally about a two week job, and they're pretty close to being on schedule.
The Sunoco convenience store there has remained open and will stay open while the outside work continues.
And, for three years, the old Cross Lake Inn and Marina had been closed. The marina reopened in May, and Thursday, they'll have a grand reopening for the restaurant, located on Fire Lane 18 in Cato, about nine miles west of Baldwinsville.
Everything's been remodeled there; they'll be open every day except Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Co-owner Daryle Loguidice tells us up to 30 full- and part-time jobs are being created for the waterfront restaurant.
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