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The Snyderville Basin Recreation District purchased these 68.5 acres of land in 2019 intending to expand Trailside Park. Trailside Elementary School is visible on the left. Officials received a permit to convert 10 acres into an expansion of Trailside Park, including two new ballfields, pavilions and 127 parking spots.
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A major expansion to Trailside Park got the go-ahead from county officials this week, with work expected to start later this year to create two new ballfields, two pavilions, a large new parking lot and other amenities in the popular and often-crowded Snyderville Basin park complex.
The Snyderville Basin Recreation District in 2019 purchased the nearly 70-acre parcel of land across Trailside Drive from the existing park and adjacent to Trailside Elementary School. The land undulates downward as it moves east until it rises in a steep hill that forms a natural boundary with the surrounding neighborhood. It’s pop
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Pictured is the former Hideaway Bay Restaurant & Lounge . Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp. officials have been working for five years to redevelop the former restaurant site.
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SILVER CREEK The redevelopment of a former lakeside restaurant continues to move forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gina Paradis, Chautauqua County Land Bank Corp. executive director, said the Hideaway Bay redevelopers Adventure Sports Development & Tundo Construction are meeting with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Silver Creek Village officials to sort out the logistics and to do site preparations.
“It’s moving along. Hopefully we will see groundbreaking before winter,” Paradis said. “It will depend how quickly everything comes together, but it certainly feels good to see it moving forward, especially with this group of developers. They are really moving forward with environmental stewardship and it’s a plan the commun