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Businessman buys condo site
Sunday, August 05, 2007
By DAVID REID
dreid@repub.com
HOLYOKE - City businessman and area entertainment mogul Eric S. Suher has added to his holdings in the city with his recent $4.8 million purchase of 20.5 acres formerly owned by the Castle Hill Apartments LLC.
The property - which contains 54 existing condominiums and open land approved for another 123 units - has an address of 83 Mountain Park Road. It is zoned for RM-20, which allows up to 20 residential units per acre.
Suher bought the property on July 12 through a new limited liability group he calls Dadgayadoh MA LLC. Its mailing address is 47 Jackson St., the home of Suher's ES Sports Corporation.
The Castle Hill parcel also borders approximately 60 acres of land at the former Mountain Park Suher bought last fall for $1.6 million through another limited liability corporation.
Suher, who owns numerous properties in downtown Northampton - including the Iron Horse and Pearl Street nightclubs, and the Calvin Theater - has been historically closed-mouthed about his business activity.
Asked last week about what his plans are for the Castle Hill property, Suher replied, "I don't talk about that stuff."
Nor has Suher publicly disclosed his plans for the former Mountain Park property. The former owners have also declined comment.
City officials are also in the dark about Suher's plans for his various holdings in the city.
For instance, another limited liability corporation under Suher's direct control, Pleasant Crossing LLC, bought a 0.7-acre parcel at the corner of Hampden and Pleasant streets from the Holyoke Economic Development and Industrial Corporation.
The property, once occupied by a deteriorated apartment block that was ordered torn down, was acquired by the city and sold to Suher after a public bid process.
Planning and Development Director Kathleen G. Anderson said last week that, while Suher has described a mixed-use project with offices and commercial businesses there, he has provided few other details. Anderson said Suher must begin work on the property by October or risk losing the property through a reverter clause.
Also last year, Suher purchased a 7.9-acre parcel with a 4,800-square-foot home at 160 Mountain View Road for $675,000, not far from Castle Hill.
In addition, Suher owns numerous other parcels, including two buildings on Dwight and Front streets, one of which he has said he wants to convert to high-end apartments.
Absent any comment from Suher or his partners about their plans for the Mountain Park and Castle Hill properties, city officials and neighbors can only speculate.
What's in a name? Maybe Suher was tipping his hand a bit when he chose the name for the new company that bought Castle Hill. According to numerous Web sites, the word Dadgayadoh is a Seneca Indian word that means "gambling men."
One neighbor who has talked to Suher is longtime acquaintance Central Park Drive resident Lawrence V. Lajoie III, a Castle Hill neighbor.
Lajoie said Suher said he plans to upgrade and landscape the exiting apartments and has no intention of building "barracks-style" units the former owners had planned.
Suher also asked what neighbors' concerns are, and vowed to keep in touch, said Lajoie.
"We have a guy from Holyoke investing in Holyoke," he said. "I feel a lot more comfortable dealing with Eric Suher" than the former owners from the eastern part of the state. Lawyer Victor M. Anop, who represented Castle Hill abutters who opposed the expansion there, said yesterday he expects his former clients "are going to oppose anything that isn't appropriate."
And Anop said he thinks Suher is onto something if he envisions a casino at Mountain Park. Suher's purchases, he said, come at a time when state officials are finally waking from their anti-casino doldrums.
Holyoke, whose residents have twice voted to support casino gambling here, "would be an ideal location for a casino," said Anop. "And now I think the time is right."
Staff writer Marcia Blomberg contributed to this story.
also, if i had yoland's 5th grade school photo, the resemblance to this 30 something photo of suher would be striking, i think.
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