Earlier this month, Kearney Realty & Development provided this rendering of the proposed Mill Street Lofts.
Earlier this week, a new rendering appeared in the Planning Board's "portal."
It appears they have dressed things up a bit with some pseudo oriels and a few trees, but it is still as out of character in this neighborhood of single-family houses as it was before.
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In the business, they are also referred to as band-aid trees.
ReplyDeleteMagical. They appear to exist in a different timeline (autumn) than the trees in the background (not autumn).
Painting over mildew.
ReplyDeleteWhoever the mayor is should be forced to live there.
ReplyDeleteThis is great, we cannot overestimate the need for housing right now.
ReplyDeleteThe problem here doesn't appear to be a need for more rental housing, the problem is the costs of rent are too high, here and everywhere else. Building a bunch of low cost, subsidized housing and packing it full of people imported from other cities or towns, or off HHA waiting lists, isn't going to lower rents in Hudson and it certainly isn't bringing any benefit to the people on Mill Street, or anyone else who already lives here.
ReplyDeleteAside from economic collapse, the only thing that will control private housing costs is rent control and caps on rent. Government sponsored social engineering and turning Hudson into a crappy, smaller version of North Jersey or Poughkeepsie isn't going to do that.
So let me get your thoughts straight: “Government sponsored social engineering bad, only fix is government mandated price controls.”
DeleteStick with art.
It’s supply vs demand, simple as that. We can’t control demand besides maybe increasing crime. So the only option is to build more. Recent news pointed out Austin, TX rents decreased over 22% after a building boom. Many of us aren’t NIMBY, we just don’t feel like taxpayers should fund developments though PILOTs. The planning board should stop kneecapping private housing investment (see boulevards and whatever Walter Chatham wants to build on Hudson Ave).
Also, housing should be a wholistic approach from the entire country. We don’t need to ruin Hudson by cramming more tenements in our 2 square mile footprint. There is plenty of open land and vacant shopping center blight that can be developed on within a 10 minute drive of Warren St.
I don't understand the compulsion to cram everything into Hudson either. While I am not sure I want that type of affordable housing here in Greenport, it offers a few advantages: comparatively speaking a lot of land, no zoning, and the desire to increase its population.
DeleteHaving spoken to a few elected officials in Greenport, I know that they would like to increase the town's slice of the sales tax pie. It generates quite a bit of it but receives relatively little in return since municipalities such as Claverack have a considerably bigger population.
I believe the main impediment is traffic. Fairview Ave is bad and only getting worse while we don't control it.
Oh, I understand why some want to cram as much into Hudson as possible: voters
DeleteNotice how they also made the trees behind the building much larger to dwarf the scale. Trickery.
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