Revival of the long-closed Gould Hotel, a locally famous 1920s landmark in Seneca Falls, will be a big boost to the village's downtown as well as the surrounding Finger Lakes region when it re-opens this summer following a $6.2 million renovation, according to area officials quoted in a Syracuse Post Standard report.
Seneca Falls is home to the Women's Rights National Historic Park, and bills itself as the "Historic Gateway to the Finger Lakes." The local town and village governments are now considering a "Strategic Plan for a new Governance Model" involving dissolution of the village.
Hotel co-owners Jake McKenna and Jay Bernhardt previously redeveloped and own The Red Mill Inn, an adaptive re-use hotel and conference center project in Baldwinsville that opened in 2006, helping to revive the town center of the Onondaga County village.
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