Construction company has new plans for old Cary dairy site

An old business has fallen and a new building is rising in its place at First Street and Park Avenue in Cary.

The old Cary Sanitary Dairy structure that was more than 75 years old was razed recently to make room for Cambridge Exteriors, a construction company now on Detroit Street that will relocate to First.

Cambridge, owned by Brad Turskey and his brothers Brett and Brian, is erecting a 4,180 square-foot building on the site that will feature office space on the top floors and a showroom and storage space on the bottom.

The village approved the brothers' new building elevation and landscape plan for the site earlier this month.

"We feel that the new building is just going to look better," Brian Turskey said, adding that he and his brothers have owned the land for about three years and like the site for its increased visibility.

Village officials said the old building was not salvageable and was obsolete by today's standards - it sat too close to the road and was too small for the Turskey brothers.

"It was not reusable for the purpose they wanted to use it for," said Cary Village Administrator Cameron Davis.

It marks the first redevelopment project for the tax increment finance district bounded by Park Avenue to the north, Route 14 to the south, First Street to the east and Borden Avenue to the west, Davis said.

The Cary Sanitary Dairy was one of the oldest businesses in town before it left the village, Davis said.

In 2000, the dairy moved its operations to Crystal Lake on 2.6 acres at the corner of Terra Cotta Road and Route 176.

The dairy distributes milk that is trucked in nightly, pasteurized and stored in diesel-powered refrigeration units. The milk is then loaded onto smaller refrigerator trucks for delivery to customers, primarily schools.

Construction on Cambridge Exteriors building is expected to finish by the end of the year, Davis said.