Current Disposition of The Depot Land
The former depot property includes a maximum-security state prison, Five Points Correctional Facility. A Seneca County Law Enforcement Center was constructed on a portion of the site, opening in May 2007. The depot's former airfield is slated for use as a New York State Police training center.
In August 2002, The Glen Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) began using the airfield for autocross racing competitions. Since then the site has also been used by the following SCCA regions: Finger Lakes, Western New York, Mohawk Hudson and Central New York. The Finger Lakes Region has used this site to host several major solo events at both the national and divisional level. Availability of the site for these purposes after August 2011 is not yet determined.
Starting in early 2007, the Cornell 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Team began using the depot's private roads to test its autonomous vehicles.
Some warehouses are leased to The Advantage Group, which runs a storage and shipping business.
Much of the housing at the depot has been sold to private developers and is now available as part of the area's civilian housing stock.
Much of the railroad track and outer yards are being used for railroad car storage. As of 2008, no customers ship by rail.
For a time, the depot housed a unit of Kid's Peace, but that has now been taken over by the Hillside Children's Center, a similar program for children which is headquartered in Rochester. The center provides institutional housing and treatment for troubled youth.
In early 2007, Cilion announced plans to build an ethanol plant on a portion of the former depot, but that project languished and appears to have died in the face of rising costs for corn and public concern about the wisdom of the project.
An article dated July 20, 2009 in the Watertown Daily Times stated that the Fort Drum-based 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) would soon start using the depot for combat training.
Discussions continue regarding the use of the rest of the land, much of which is dotted with large, concrete munitions storage bunkers known as igloos which were built at the beginning of World War II.
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