Self-storage project planned for Tipperary Hill construction site
The vacant lot across from Nibsy’s Pub is headed toward self-storage, with city filings and county records pointing to a much larger build than many neighbors first expected.
The big construction site at 1510 West Fayette Street, directly across from Nibsy’s Pub in Tipperary Hill, appears to be headed toward self-storage, answering a neighborhood question that has followed the vacant lot for months.
City of Syracuse planning materials from June 17, 2024 identified the project as Major Site Plan Review MaSPR-24-22. The public notice described a new 44,720-square-foot interior self-storage facility with associated site improvements in the Light Industry and Employment zone district.
The drawing set was labeled Tipp Hill Storage and named 601 Avery, LLC. as the client and owner at the time of the application. The design team included Ed Keplinger of Keplinger & Freeman Associates, along with Craig Polhamus, Zausmer-Frisch Scruton & Aggarwal, Pierce Engineering PC and Trachte Building Systems.
The concept shown in the site-plan material called for a three-story, roughly 45,000-square-foot storage building with two elevators, a large loading area in back, a smaller loading door on the west side of the front facade and office space on the second floor. Later listing materials describe a larger project, approved for 72,300 square feet of gross building area, including a 66,000-square-foot two-story climate-controlled building and three single-story drive-up storage buildings totaling 6,300 square feet.
Onondaga County property records show the two-acre parcel is now owned by SYR Storage Investors LLC, which bought the land for $995,000 in December 2024. Commercial listing materials describe the site as about 2.1 acres with roughly 380 feet of frontage on West Fayette Street, near center city Syracuse, Tipperary Hill and the downtown employment core.
For Tipperary Hill, the project is impossible to miss. Nibsy’s Pub says it has been in business since 1890 and sits at the corner of West Fayette Street and Ulster Street, putting a well-known neighborhood anchor directly in view of the lot.
That makes the project more than a permit item. A self-storage building of this size could reshape traffic patterns, parking demand and sight lines on a busy stretch of West Fayette Street, while also changing what neighbors see every day when they pass one of the neighborhood’s most recognizable corners.
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