Marbledale Road Is Being Rebuilt One Ground Floor at a Time

"We already get customer comments, 'Where have I got to, where am I in the middle of a warehouse development.'" Gary Byrne said that at a Village of Tuckahoe Planning Board hearing this summer. He manages the SpringHill Suites by Marriott Tuckahoe on Marbledale Road, and he was the only person who spoke. He wasn't against the project. "I'm all for development and I'm delighted to see something happening next door to me," he told the board, and his concerns were setbacks and signs.

That hearing explains Marbledale Road better than anything else from 2026. Nobody is debating whether the road stays commercial and light-industrial. It will. What's being decided, a few feet at a time, is the first twenty feet or so back from the curb: what you see walking or driving past, and whether there's any reason to stop. Two things moved this summer. A long-running brewery added a kitchen, and a storage developer redrew its plans around street-level retail and service space.

The Brewery That Added a Reason to Stay for Dinner

Broken Bow Brewery has been at 173 Marbledale Road since 2012. It reopened July 29 after a renovation that added two bars, a private event room, an all-weather beer garden and a full-service kitchen. The Journal News photographed the family behind it in the new space: Kathy and Lyle LaMothe, their daughter Kristen Stone, and brewer Kasey Schwartz.

The new kitchen is called The ForkLift, and the Journal News describes its food as elevated bar food. The menu is built for a long table and a few rounds: pretzel bites, chipotle queso, wings with eight sauces, personal pizzas, Angus and veggie burgers, Nashville hot chicken, pulled-pork sandwiches, an IPA salad, nachos, and churros or a brownie à la mode to finish. That changes what the stop is for. Before the renovation, Broken Bow was a place for a pint. Now a family can show up at six and stay through dinner.

The weekly deals posted for this fall:

• Wednesdays: a hamburger, fries and a Core Pour draft for $19.99, all day. The deal is scheduled through October and November.
• Thursdays: $20 pitchers of select house beers, all day, with dates posted into late November.
• This week only: the Oktoberfest special, a Spiced Oktoberfest pitcher and a large warm pretzel with mustard for $25, ends this afternoon, October 4.

Children are welcome if a parent or guardian is with them. Friendly dogs on a leash can use the covered atrium and a grassy area the brewery calls Bark N Bow, which has water bowls. The brewery's website doesn't show current hours, so check before you go.

Twenty-One Feet From the Curb

A few hundred feet down the road, the approval Byrne commented on covers a 2.8-acre lot at 83–95 Marbledale Road. The developer, 93 Marbledale Properties LLC, plans a four-story building with 111,560 square feet in total. About 108,170 square feet would be storage units, and 3,390 square feet at street level would go to retail and service businesses. The lot sits between a Westy self-storage facility and the SpringHill Suites.

The numbers matter in proportion. The retail and service space is about 3 percent of the building's floor area. Even so, that 3 percent is the part neighbors will actually see, and it's where most of the changes during review were made. The developer said the ground-floor space was meant to "activate the streetscape and support a pedestrian-friendly Marbledale Road." The application was filed October 21, 2025. Over the following months the building shrank by 1,000 square feet and was moved back to leave 21 feet between the curb and the retail space. A planned retaining wall was lowered to the minimum the code requires, and it will be finished in stone veneer instead of the stamped concrete first proposed.

Daniel Patrick, the applicant's attorney at the White Plains firm Cuddy & Feder, described the process to the board:

"This is an as-of-right permitted use and development that has been presented to the board on several occasions over the past several months. These proposals not only provide an aesthetically pleasing site and redevelopment but they also support a lot of the village's Comprehensive Plan goals."

"As-of-right" is the phrase to remember. Storage was always allowed on this lot. Public review couldn't decide whether the building happened. It could shape how the building meets the sidewalk, and that's where every change landed: the setback, the wall, the finish.

The Road, Address by Address

Here is the stretch as of early October 2026, from the Main Street end. Broken Bow sits farthest along.

Phoenix Fitness has some of the longest hours on the road: 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, and 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. With the gym open early and late and the brewery serving dinner, Marbledale Road now has people around from dawn until well after dark. That's the kind of steady foot traffic small ground-floor shops usually need.

Why the Ground Sets the Schedule

The storage project's slowest condition is underground. Tuckahoe's first marble quarry opened in 1821 and kept producing for almost a century. Tuckahoe marble went into the New York Public Library, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Grace Episcopal Church, the Custom House and the Government Printing Office. Parts of Marbledale Road carry that history. A state fact sheet lists 109–125 Marbledale Road as the "Former Marble Quarry Landfill," with quarrying among its past uses.

The 83–95 lot was also a quarry, and its soil is contaminated. Before building, the developer has to satisfy the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Monitoring wells are already on the site, and some may stay after construction starts. The village also asked for letters from the electric, water and sewer providers confirming they will serve the building. Westfair's August report described an approval with conditions still to be met and did not report a groundbreaking. Whatever pace the project keeps from here, the quarry that supplied marble for Fifth Avenue is one of the things setting it.

Where the Next Decisions Happen

Two decisions about the road's look are still open, and both go through public meetings.

The first is signs. Byrne raised signage at the Planning Board hearing and was told the applicant would have to go before the village's Sign and Awning Board, which holds public meetings where he can raise his concerns again. For a four-story building next to a hotel, the size and placement of its signs will shape how the road looks to people arriving more than almost anything else.

The second is the intersection at Marbledale Road and Lincoln Avenue. In September the Board of Trustees voted 5–0 to hire Colliers Engineering to evaluate and design improvements there. Trustee Goindi made the motion and Trustee Joshua Gaccione seconded it. The approved agreement covers evaluation and design services, and the vote summary does not describe a construction date or specific changes to the intersection.

So this fall, Marbledale Road has a kitchen at No. 173, a storage project waiting on environmental sign-off at 83–95, a gym open from 5 a.m. at No. 135, and two public decisions coming on signs and the Lincoln Avenue intersection. The Wednesday burger deal runs through November.

If you own on or near Marbledale Road and want to know how the storage approval and the intersection redesign might affect your street, Sheila Stoltz is happy to go through the details with you. The approvals are public, and reading them closely is part of how we advise neighbors here. Let's Connect.