Restaurant and Food Service
Peabody's Sports Bar and Grill, which closed in September, in Saratoga Springs has been sold, the Albany Business Review is reporting this morning. The property at 39 Phila St. in the city sold for $850,000, the paper writes.
The Hoppy Bus is back, but under the covid-threat, they'll only take groups of friends or family units on the pub crawls that they offer, the Chronicle reports on page 1 of their paper. The bus, newly part of the Premier Tours fleet owned by Dawn Biddescombe and her son, takes people to about 20 of the regions small breweries and distilleries, the paper writes.
It's budget time
Washington County sales tax revenue is up, and that has helped keep the rise in property taxes--just one cent more per $1,000 assessed real estate value--low, the Chronicle's Cathy DeDe reports (see page 2).
Saratoga County proposed a budget without tax increses, the Saratogian is reporting this morning. Sales tax will remain the largest source of revenue in the county and will stay at 3%. The property tax rate is $2.23 per $1,000 of assessed value, a $0.03 decrease from last year, the paper reports.
Rec Center Reopens
The East Side Rec Center in Saratoga reopened at the end of last week, Saratoga Today reports. The fully renovated center, budgeted at $6.5 million, went under a planned renovation that coicided with the pandemic closures. It is part of the school district's $15.6 million Great Outdoors project, the paper says.