{"id":98869,"date":"2026-01-28T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:42:13","slug":"an-eyesore-on-erie-boulevard-in-dewitt-is-coming-down-soon-to-make-way-for-new-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98869\/","title":{"rendered":"An eyesore on Erie Boulevard in DeWitt is coming down soon to make way for new restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JRIP4IYAWBAPFFWFPL3NZYZGII\">DeWitt, N.Y. &#8211;It\u2019s been nine years since Tokyo Seoul closed it doors and the boarded-up restaurant building has become an eyesore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"35ERL3JIG5GS7EJPYDCFY4FGEU\">Next month, its new owners say the vacant, boarded-up building at 3180 Erie Blvd. E. will be demolished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TSSKWFZRFRA75I4C3RTR32B62M\">Shortly after that, a new 4,500-square-foot building will be constructed, said Grazi Zazzara Jr. who bought the site in fall 2024 with the Giamartino family, who operate Tully\u2019s Good Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3IBMTAZKGREG5FI37K6CQE3UHM\">A national Halal restaurant chain is leasing 2,000 square feet in the new building, Zazzara said. The remaining 2,500 space has interest from some potential tenants, but nothing has been finalized yet, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JCF2GM62WVHXVHOJWFSZL5MWBU\">The former Tokyo Seoul restaurant operated for two decades, but the building has been vacant since it closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VAZSXG2FDFED7IJUWIQMHDJBMU\"> The property sold to 3180 Erie Blvd. LLC, of East Syracuse for $750,000 in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EQZJ6S2GJZAENDLAGTVCRJHRMM\">Zazzara said the design of the new building will be very similar to the Canalway Commons building next to the new Chick-fil-A restaurant. That building houses Supercuts, Tropical Smoothie and Runaway Buy Sell Trade and is on Celi Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeWitt, N.Y. &#8211;It\u2019s been nine years since Tokyo Seoul closed it doors and the boarded-up restaurant building has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-98869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}