Ear to the Ground
While the City of Hudson moves forward with its residential parking permit plan to ameliorate the parking situation around the hospital, there's word that Columbia Memorial Health is pursuing its own plan to address parking. As has been reported here before, CMH acquired the building that housed COARC's Starting Place program last year.
The Galvan Foundation is now pursuing a plan to relocate the COARC daycare program to the basement of the Galvan Armory. That proposal is currently before the Planning Board.
Meanwhile, Gossips has learned that CMH plans to move the administrative offices now in the former Eden Park nursing home building to the former COARC building and then demolish the Eden Park building and construct in its place a multi-level parking garage that will accommodate 444 vehicles and have an enclosed walkway over Prospect Avenue from the garage to the main hospital building. Below is an example of an enclosed walkway connecting buildings at the Albany Medical Center, with which CMH now has an affiliation.
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A bridge of sighs? In Hudson. Next to the Princess Beatrix house? No no no.
ReplyDeleteYet more hospital creep.
This is very depressing news.
ReplyDeleteIn a kinder, gentler world, CMH would be a more considerate neighbor and plan all of it's future expansions on the other side of Prospect Avenue. 400+ parking spaces are, frankly, quite a lot, and would result in an inappropriately massive eyesore that has no business bordering the Rossman Avenue historic district. I do hope that saner heads rethink this one.
Agree 100%.
DeleteIt will be an eyesore and make us look like every other American small city.
I hope the Common Council has the power to veto this abortion.
It's all about free vs. paid parking for CMH employees.
ReplyDeleteThe sky is falling.
Surely there is a better spot for such a gigantic garage and footbridge than spanning one of the main entrances into town. There is a large space behind the hospital, between the hospital and 8th Street, and that is where it should go, so no footbridge would be needed, and it wouldn't be such an eyesore. Part of that property is for sale right now.
ReplyDeletePatients coming to the hospital are often frail and have problems with mobility. An enclosed footbridge would protect patients from the elements. When the streets are icy and the snow is drifting, a parking garage and footbridge could be useful.
ReplyDeleteIf they're that frail they are usually coming in by ambulance to the ER.
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