Next week, the Hudson IDA (Industrial Development Agency) is holding a public hearing on the request from the Galvan Foundation for PILOTs and other financial assistance for the two apartment buildings it proposes to construct on North Seventh Street. The hearing is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, August 11, at 5:00 p.m. at Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street.
The first notice of the hearing appeared in the Register-Star on Saturday, July 31, and Gossips announced it on that same day. Today, the Galvan Foundation posted an announcement about the hearing on its Facebook page.
So Galvan is going to solve the affordable housing problem in Hudson? Finally, hooray! Give them whatever they ask for or claim to need! Tax abatements -- sure, big ones and lots of them! Don't worry about parking issues, if they say there are none then there are none! Allow them to let their vacant properties to continue to rot! Don't worry about the infrastructure issues the development will create -- because there won't be any! Allow them to leave the demolition site with the barricades and fences at 7th and State to remain forever! Give them the green light to build 2 enormous apartment buildings in a sleepy neighborhood with no off street parking and very limited on-street parking. Let them name the neighborhood the Depot District and put signs up on every corner reminding everyone of their munificence! Believe whatever they say or print. Great God Almighty halleluiah, let us rejoice, Hudson's housing problems will at last be solved!
ReplyDeletepeople with billions get to do what they want, while "doing good" and reaping millions from the corrupt US government structure for public housing in cities like Hudson. Keep them in the ghetto where knifing and guns are rife.
DeleteHudson needs this like a hole in the head. Is anyone watching the disaster down at The Promenade Park? A colossal, elephantine concrete ramp that takes up 50% of the space, all trees destroyed. Artist renderings never resemble reality, if those apartments are built that block is going to resemble a prison.
ReplyDeleteThe city can not control the existing low income residential neighborhoods. Shootings, beatings, stabbings all witnessed and the perpetrators known to the residents, but no one will identify them. So let's expand it! Hudson is no longer a suitable place for this type of housing. There is plenty of low income and affordable housing in Albany, a short train ride away.
Everyone better be there next Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the complete lack of “likes” on their posts, Galvan sure doesn’t have many Facebook followers or friends.
ReplyDeleteI will never understand why the rich (meaning they have more money than the average "Joe") don't think they need to pay taxes, to support a community, like everyone else.
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