More About the UBI Plan for Hudson

Yesterday, Gossips linked to the Daily News article about Andrew Yang and his universal basic income (UBI) pilot project for Hudson known as HudsonUP. In pursuing the project, Yang's nonprofit, Humanity Forward, is partnering with The Spark of Hudson, the group that acquired this building at the corner of South Fifth and Union streets last year. On Friday, the plans for converting the building into a community learning center came before the Historic Preservation Commission. 

The building, which started out as a warehouse, was for many years an office building, the headquarters of the accounting firm of Pattison Koskey Howe & Bucci. It was probably during that phase of its history that the building acquired its faux 19th-century bracketed cornice and the copper-roofed "awning" over the doorway. What's now proposed for the building will undo what was done in the 1980s and bring it back to something closer to its original mid-century modern industrial style.

The proposed changes to the building include doubling the size of the ground floor windows facing South Fifth Street, introducing windows into the facades facing Cherry Alley and Union Street, and adding a structure--"clerestory halo"--on the roof which will accommodate a greenhouse and event space. Plans for the building's use involve spaces for courses and a cafe.
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