An official groundbreaking ceremony is set to take place at Tupper Lake’s Oval Wood Dish factory on Aug. 24. This comes after almost seven years of planning, permitting and fundraising for a construction project that would turn the abandoned factory into affordable housing. What to expectOval wood dish building in Tupper Lake. Developers plan to pre-lease the 80 one- and two-bedroom units beginning next summer, with residents moving in before 2028. “You’re really going to have big city lofts, beautiful units in Tupper Lake and you have all the amenities,” Gehm said.