Subway sandwich shop opens at City Station West

By Katie Nowak Roberts The Record

City and County officials L-R Rensselaer County Chamber President, Lynn Kopka Troy City Council President, Kris Thompson representative for Senator Roy McDonald, Elizabeth Young of the Troy BID, Troy Mayor Lou Rosamilia, County Exec Kathy Jimino, Michael Uccellini President and CEO United Group of Companies, Nigham Sheikh Subway oencer cut the ribbon at the at City Station West, second from right. (Mike McMahon /The Record)

TROY The first business to occupy the retail space at City Station West opened its doors Monday, as the Subway sandwich shop held a ribbon cutting attended by a host of local officials.

Subway, which has another downtown Troy location in Monument Square, became the latest member of the Downtown Troy Business Improvement District, and BID Executive Director Elizabeth Young said it was exciting to finally welcome City Stations first commercial tenant.

"Projects like City Station have proven to be an economic booster to the citys businesses, adding to the growing vitality of Troy and solidifying the connection between the citys colleges and its downtown," Young said. "We are overjoyed to be cutting the ribbon on the first new business in a new building, on a whole new block here in our downtown."

The City Station project received stimulus funding through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which spurred a $7 million road and infrastructure reconstruction project along the Congress-Ferry corridor that was finished in November 2010. City Station, located on Sixth Avenue between Congress and Ferry streets, was completed during a whirlwind six-month construction schedule last year. It has 48 apartments that are reserved for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate students, and the buildings first floor has 17,000 square feet of retail space, with future tenants Paesans Pizza, Supercuts and Mamora Caf set to move in soon.

Another identical complex, City Station South, is currently under construction across the street, Young said, and is scheduled to be completed sometime in August. The success of the current complex and speed with which the second is coming together is exciting, she said.

"As we stood there today cutting the ribbon, you could hear the large pile-driver that was at work across the street (and) it kind of made me realize that we really have come full circle, but a whole new stage has started," Young said.

Subway owner Nigham Sheikh, who participated in the ribbon-cutting, said it felt "very good" to finally open the business.

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