A post that appears on Fourth Ward supervisor Linda Mussmann's Facebook page suggests the mid-century grade school could accommodate the Youth Department, the Common Council chamber and all the offices now located in City Hall, the Hudson Daycare Center, the Code Enforcement office, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the County Clerk's office, the County Treasurer's office, the Board of Supervisors chamber and all the offices currently housed in 401 State Street, and the Probation Office and all the other offices currently housed in the old Sixth Street School.
It could be true, but it staggers the imagination. Let's hope that the feasibility study requested by the resolution passed by the Common Council on Tuesday provides a better sense of what the soon to be abandoned school building, for sale for upwards of $5 million, could realistically accommodate.
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We were considering selling that building when I was on the school board (some five years ago) and it is pretty big: three floors, including an auditorium AND a gym: some 70,000 square feet. By comparison, the newly renovated building that the Police and City Courts just moved into on upper Union (for over $1 million) is barely 5k square feet.
ReplyDeletePeter, I believe the Police/Court building is bigger than 5,000 sq.ft. At least twice that, if I were to guess.
ReplyDeleteBrian, perfectly willing to be corrected. This is my napkin estimate.
DeleteI have it on the best authority--Chief Ed Moore--that the Police & Courts building is 15,360 square feet: 128' x 120'.
Deletebut why would anyone use common sense
ReplyDeleteand combine services to one location
could it be parking
oh that's right, common sense is a rare mind set in Hudson by both the HBB and HBC groups