It's been more than four years since the Galvan Foundation announced its intention to acquire the former Community Theater building at the corner of Columbia and Seventh streets and more than two years since Galvan revealed its plans for the building.
In September, when Galvan presented the plans to develop the unused space at 724-726 Columbia Street as a theater, or "assembly hall," and restaurant to the Planning Board, one wondered how those plans would impact what had been proposed for the old Community Theater. Did Galvan really intend to operate two theaters just a block away from one another?
At Tuesday's Planning Board meeting, Charles Gottlieb, attorney for Galvan, explained the relationship between the two theater projects. Plans for the Community Theater, which Galvan has dubbed the Hudson Forum, are on hold. The Foundry, the name of the venue proposed for 724-726 Columbia Street, will be a "precursor" of the Hudson Forum.
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Plenty of room for new theatres. Properly done and managed, Hudson has the potential to be a Northeast Regional Theatre capital. Please move more quickly to complete these projects! And hire local talent - there's plenty of it!
ReplyDeleteWas it two or was it three years ago that Galvan bought the house next to the Tennis building, convincing the council that it would be used to house artists that perform next door? Therefore, it was another tax-exempt property of theirs and tens of thousands of tax revenue vaporized for us. I remember the council approved it. They fell for it, and two or three years later there Galvan's vacant and lifeless house sits, neglected and rotting. (The carpeted front porch steps are so charming!). Think anyone at City Hall cares if anyone lives in that house ever again? Wouldn't it be so reassuring to live next to a vacant and neglected, always dark and quiet house, especially one owned by Galvan? Makes for a wonderful neighborhood and neighbors, I tell ya' what!
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