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"Even if I could undoubtedly prove to you that this would bring 40 jobs to Irondequoit, that I can undoubtedly prove to you this would not add one penny to any Irondequoit taxpayer's tax bill," said Mike Nolan, I-Square developer, to the town board.

Nolan tried to plead his case to town board members to consider his 25-year pilot program for the I-Square project. It included a tax break of .5 percent.

But the board had already decided it had heard enough.

"They wouldn't listen to me tonight. They wouldn't listen to our points to give us a chance to debate the merits of their objections. That's not government," said Nolan.

Nolan wants to redevelop parts of Union Park, Titus Avenue, and Stranahan Park into a seven-building, mixed-use property.

Town Supervisor Mary Joyce D'Aurizio says because of Nolan's lack of a detailed business plan, the board had concerns with giving his 25-year PILOT project the green light.

"We do not know what his financing stream is, and those are all important to our making a decision, because in a sense, it's like we are loaning the town to his project," said D'Aurizio.

Instead, the board unanimously agreed to approve a ten-year PILOT program for I-Square that includes a 2.5 percent tax increase.

"Not even remotely affordable for us to build I-Square under that. I don't need their approval to get a better agreement than they just suggested," said Nolan.

"To expect any board to live with something that's a quarter of a century long, we can't predict the future," said D'Aurizio.

A future that has now become uncertain for I-Square.

"He'll have to find some other way or come up with a business plan and revise what he has planned for it," said D'Aurizio.