The town of Greenburgh has granted a zoning variance that will allow for a drive-through window at Deli Delicious, a Tarrytown Road business that has been closed and boarded up for three years.
Greenburgh”™s Zoning Board of Appeals denied the variance in 2011 and the property”™s owner, Ernie Tartaglione, told the Business Journal at the time that without the drive-through it wasn”™t worth keeping the property open.
“This is a third-generation business,” he said at the time. “I operated it for 28 years and my son was going to take over.” The deli was losing $2,000 to $3,000 a week when he closed shop, he said.
On Thursday, the zoning board reconsidered the application and granted variances on a reapplication, according to Town Supervisor Paul Feiner. Feiner said a three-month construction period is expected to renovate the building and construct the drive-through, pending site plan approval from the town”™s Planning Board. He applauded the variance.
“The large signs on the building stating that the deli was closed and the boarded windows sent people the wrong message about Greenburgh and made it more difficult to attract new vibrant businesses to our town,” Feiner said in an email.
The supervisor estimated the renovated Deli Delicious would be open by the end of the year.
Great news! Been closed too long……