The Acquisition of Hudson: When Will It End?

Gossips used to monitor diligently the acquisition of property by Eric Galloway, his various LLCs, and Galvan entities. That diligence has relaxed a bit in recent years, but word of two new acquisitions, either completed or in the works, has inspired a new inventory of properties in Hudson now owned by Galvan Initiatives Foundation, Galvan Asset Management (formerly Housing Resources of Columbia County), Galvan Civic I, and Hudson Collective Realty. The two new acquisitions--realized or soon to be--are 6 West Court Street and 502 Union Street.

What follows is a street-by-street list of all the properties owned by Galvan, as listed in the tax rolls, organized by street--some with annotations, some with links to relevant posts--with a few pictures here and there to break up the monotony.

Warren Street
11 (the former COARC building)
22 and 24
201-203 (once known as the Shrimp Box) 
202-204 (the location of Princeton Architectural Press)
260
317½ (the location of Foley & Cox)
346
364-366 (the location of Bard Early College and Hudson Home) 
412-416 (the C. H. Evans Mansion)
449 (the location of Olde Hudson and Aeble)
455-457 (the vacant lot at the corner of Fifth and Warren)

Union Street
9
21-23 (the vacant lot next to 25 Union Street)
25
27
1o2
104
105
113
119-123
201-203
209-211 (the birthplace of General William Jenkins Worth)
213
215 and 217-219 (these two properties and 216 Partition Street make up the site of the house allegedly built with the salvage from 900 Columbia Street)
223
229
238
251-253
255-259 (the location of Ör)
354-356
357
438
501-505 (formerly Apartments of Distinction)

Allen Street
26, 28, and 30 (one double house and the lot next to it)

55-61 (the Charles Alger House)
229
233-235
238
250-252
335-337

Galvan seems to favor the south side of town and has acquired several parcels on the numbered streets south of Warren.

South First Street
20 and 24 (the lots behind 102 and 104 Union)

South Second Street
34-36
68 (the Robert Taylor House)
The parcel that appears in the tax rolls as simply "Deer Aly" [sic] is the land extending east behind the Robert Taylor House.

South Third Street
40 (the location of the Salvation Army)

Hudson Avenue
The baseball diamond now known as Galvan Field.

Galvan Asset Management has taken possession of all the properties previously owned by Housing Resources of Columbia County, most of which are located on the north side of town. Galvan Initiatives Foundation has been acquiring additional property on the north side.

Columbia Street
252 (the office of Galvan Housing Resources)
538-540 and 542-544 (the location of Columbia Opportunities)
724 and 726 (what remains of the Gifford Foundry)

Galvan Initiatives Foundation also owns the vacant lot at the corner of Columbia and North Fourth street, which extends from Columbia Street to Long Alley. That parcel has the address 25 North Fourth Street.

State Street
227-235

237 and 239 (both vacant lots)
313
325
327
336
340
400 (formerly the Hudson Area Library)
618 (rear) 
Galvan tried to buy the house at the front of 618 State Street in the tax auction in November, but although the person bidding on behalf of Hudson Collective Realty, Jack Connor, made the winning bid, it was determined that he was ineligible to bid because he was the city judge.

620-624 (the original Hudson Orphan Asylum)
708 (the Hudson Upper Depot, the passenger station for the Hudson-Berkshire Railroad)

In the area of State and North Seventh streets, Galvan also owns 61-63 North Seventh Street, the original Canape Motors, purchased from Carmine Pierro in 2003, and 69-73 and 75 North Seventh Street, two houses purchased by Galvan Initiatives Foundation in 2014 and 2013 respectively. At the present time, there is only one property on North Seventh Street between State Street and the Hudson Central Fire Station that is not owned by Galvan.

Galvan, of course, owns the Hudson Armory at the corner of Fifth and State streets, now the location of the Hudson Area Library, and has been acquiring a number of houses on North Fifth Street and elsewhere in the vicinity of the armory.

North Fifth Street
20
25
61-65
67-71
72
76-78 

Prospect Avenue
449 (adjacent to the back yards of 61-65 and 67-71 North Fifth Street)

Short Street
59

Elsewhere on the north side, there are two properties on Robinson Street: 211 and 215. Former is owned by Galvan Initiatives Foundation, the latter by Galvan Asset Management.

There are two more parcels owned by Galvan Initiatives Foundation: 12 North Second Street, the lot behind 202-204 Warren Street, and 13 North Third Street, the rear of 260 Warren Street, and 17 North Third Street. 

The total number of parcels, not counting the two newest acquisitions, now stands at eighty-seven.

An Update--Months Later: Although in February, Gossips had it on very good authority that Galvan was buying 502 Union Street, we report on September 19, 2018, that the deal has since fallen through.
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