Everything Must Change
In 2008, the Galvan Group acquired 211 Union Street, the birthplace of Hudson's most illustrious native son, William Jenkins Worth.
Two years after acquiring the house, Galvan set about restoring it--a restoration intended to return the house to what was believed to be its appearance in 1794 when General Worth was born there. The plans for restoration also involved rebuilding the facade--not once but twice. The first time, the original three-course brick wall was to be replaced with a one-course brick wall over a new wood frame wall, using the building's own bricks. When that proved to be unsatisfactory, the wall was rebuilt a second time, using bricks that had been salvaged from the Old Brick Tavern, which once stood at the corner of Routes 66 and 9H and was demolished in 2011.
When the renovation was complete in 2012, the house was offered for rent. (At the time, too, ownership of the building was transferred to the newly created Galvan Inititatives Foundation.)
Since then, the house has had only one tenant, but now that tenant is being forced to move because Galvan will not renew the lease. The house is to be put up for sale. According to Gossips' sources, the asking price is $1 million.
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And this is precisely what we're going to see more and more of in Hudson: rental properties being emptied out so buildings can be sold. Between the pandemic's impact on the economy and NYS's new anti-landlord rental housing laws rational businesspeople will abandon the rental market; purchasers will not be looking to get in to the residential (or even commercial) landlord business in NYS so the properties are almost certainly to become single-family homes.
ReplyDeleteOn a note particular to this would-be seller, one marvels at the chutzpah and the irony of the ask in light of its grieving the valuation of its president's property on Court Street.
When is Hudson changing its name to Galvan?
ReplyDeleteGalvania ? Galvanastan ?
DeletePottersville.
DeleteToo bad about the tenant's garden out back after they put such effort into it.
ReplyDeleteIn places where everyone's renting, there's generally less incentive to take care of a property as that tenant did.
The lovely garden to which you refer is not behind the Worth house, but behind 215 Union Street.
DeleteThere is a lovely garden behind 211 Union Street, the General Worth birthplace. It's been on the Mrs. Greenthumbs Garden Tour.
Deletethat's 'renuvation'
ReplyDeleteDo pro-Galvan Alderwomen Garriga or Wolff care to comment on the hypocrisy?
ReplyDelete-Jerome Riviere