Ear to the Ground

This month, the Hudson Housing Authority did not provide information for accessing the Zoom meeting of the Board of Commissioners, and when Gossips contacted board chair Randall Martin to request access, there was no response. The audio recording of the meeting is now available on the HHA website.

The interesting news from HHA, which was shared today by Martin at the HCDPA (Hudson Community Development and Planning Agency) meeting this morning, is that HHA is "looking into a lower density project on the State Street site." He mentioned specifically townhouses. An RFP for the project is expected to be ready within the next 45 days.

Martin indicated that the soil at the site "is conducive to doing a lower density project," which suggests that instability of the soil, a situation that has plagued Bliss Towers across the street for decades, may have contributed to the decision to abandon the ambitious development plans that were proposed in 2018.

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