Yesterday, one of the three houses to be demolished to make way for the apartment building Galvan proposes to build at 75 North Seventh Street was bashed to smithereens. This morning, a second house suffered the same fate.
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| Photo: Bill Huston |
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| Photo: Lisa Durfee |
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| Photo: Lisa Durfee |
As a reminder, this is what is to be built on the site.
The final house, to be demolished tomorrow or Friday, has all sorts of salvageable stuff inside, easily seen through the windows. Ceiling fans, doors, architectural items, you name it - things people could use, if not Galvan. No effort was made to rescue and reuse anything, it appears. Send it all to the landfill, and quick! Galvan, the developer that cares!
ReplyDeleteA comment on the bigger picture of this mega-project, arguably the largest in downtown Hudson in decades: It is an enormous swindle and it will be regretted for decades to come. Who builds, AND IS ALLOWED TO BUILD, 140 apartments with no adjacent off-street parking? (Their soon-to-be small lot at the end of Washington is a 2-minute walk away) A so-called community developer only concerned with making money and an incoherent city hall unable and unprepared to stand up to a developer proposing an unwise and unsustainable project, that's who. Kamal Johnson will get his "affordable" housing to crow about, but of course he won't care if those tenants have to park their cars 3 or 4 blocks from their apartment. Don't forget, GALVAN's own parking study submitted to the Planning Board found the parking spaces they needed, all within A QUARTER MILE, or 5 minute walk, of the site. This is the Hudson we want?
Bill
Any developer with a bit of integrity, common sense and respect would never have proposed such a project - due to the lack of available parking for tenants AND retail shoppers. In the real world, this issue a no-gamer. But Galvan, seemingly in a world of its own, is less a "developer" than a scammer.
ReplyDeleteYou get what you vote for. This is just a preview of what's to come.
ReplyDeleteI'd bet anything that "affordable" somehow turns into subsidized low-income housing, which is essentially a repeat of the mistakes of the 1970's.
ReplyDeleteIt truly is a repeat of the mistakes of the '70's which so many individual house and business owners have worked so hard to overcome. The community spirit of the late '80's, 90's and early to mid 2000 has dissipated, attendance at City Meetings has dropped, apathy seems to reign. Except for the advocates for 'affordable' housing and I too agree that it will be regretted. Tearing down perfectly good housing instead of fixing things up would not be my way of doing it, having fixed up two buildings and 3 houses during our time in Hudson. .
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