The Promise of Food
It appeared that the assembled crew might be excavating a ruin, but presumably they are getting ready to build "Hudson Arcade," the addition to the front of the old convenience store on Warren and Fifth streets that will become Hudson's only year-round food market.
The original plan was for the market to be completed in the fall of 2012. The last time Gossips inquired about an anticipated opening date for the market, the answer was spring or early summer 2013. It seems that the date for opening day at the market may need to be adjusted again. Let's hope it will be ready before the Hudson Farmers' Market, which opens this year on May 4, ends its 2013 season on November 23.
It looks increasingly like Hudson is becoming the only place in the area you can live without a car. We're giving it a go. Let's see....
ReplyDeleteBravo! Glad to see progress on that forlorn site. If it looks like the visual rendering enclosed above, it will be a very welcome improvement to Warren St. In the short term, I'd be happy enough if Galloway would tear down that miserable picket fence that American Glory put up on the corner. Perhaps we could pile it up, have a bonfire, and do some kind of spring solstice ritual.
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ReplyDeleteOlde Hudson, in the 400 block of Warren, Dena and Dick's wonderful emporium is indeed a full time, year around food market. It is unfair to overlook them!
I certainly didn't mean to overlook Olde Hudson. Making "year-round" the distinguishing characteristic was a mistake. What's promised for the "Hudson Arcade" is a grocery store--a place where you can get paper towels and cat food and laundry detergent as well as food products, a place that can eliminate the need to drive out to Greenport for grocery shopping and take Hudson off "food desert" list. Olde Hudson defines itself as a specialty food store, and it is. It offers exceptionally fine products, but it's not a substitute for ShopRite and doesn't aspire to be.
Deleteactually its eric and co looking to put a market into downtown hudson to promote more welfare housing. theres nothing good about the motives so dont hold your breathe. if course the market will go broke selling to welfare clients but rick and eric want to get more grants for more public housing they need a market where the really poor can shop.
ReplyDeleteI heard this as Galvans motive too... makes too much sense,
DeleteWhat happened to the Fillis? I thought this was their endeavor...A year round market..
ReplyDeleteI believe 'Fillis' aka "The Claverack Market" is still the contender - a very good family run business who offer organic too - at least I hope so ... !!!
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