A site two blocks from the Syracuse Inner Harbor — and the $100 million aquarium being built there — is the wrong place to put a concrete batch plant that would generate noise, dust and truck traffic 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The plant, at 411 and 421 Spencer St., is incompatible with plans to make the lakefront a center of tourism and recreation anchored by the aquarium.

The area is already home to a hotel , apartments and a taproom . There is lots of room to build more housing, restaurants, office space and retail — which has been the plan since the city acquired the harbor from New York state in 2011.

The lakefront neighborhood also has changed significantly in the decade or so the concrete plant has been dormant.

“Oil City” is no longer dotted with oil storage ta

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