Yesterday, mayoral candidate Peter Spear opined about the proposed Mill Street Lofts on Instagram, calling it a "bad plan" and "disruptive because the Mayor's Office is putting developers ahead of our neighbors."
Today, mayoral candidate Lloyd Koedding released this statement about Mill Street Lofts.
So far, there has been no statement from Joe Ferris about the Planning Board's decision last night to grant site plan approval to Mill Street Lofts, but in a statement made earlier, Ferris called on the Planning Board to deny approval: "There is no such thing as a good project in a floodplain. Let's build a future that's safe, equitable, and forward-thinking. Approve the Bliss Towers redevelopment and reject the Mill Street Lofts as it stands." Of course, that didn't happen.
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The developer Sean admitted for the first time last night that only 9 apartments will be for truly struggling folks...
ReplyDeleteAnd that even those apartments will go via lottery with no guarantee to local Hudson residents in need.
📺 See time stamps on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/ibg2Bm9WCJU?si=72You0XaqZGbGksD&t=4331
So in summary:
The Mill Street development will almost certainly not help homeless people in the 7th Street Park... it will not prioritize Hudson residents who live below the poverty line.
And the plight and presence of those groups were specifically leveraged to galvanize support for this project.
Kamal - you should be ashamed of yourself... trotting out struggling people, leveraging the plight of undocumented immigrants... all to browbeat the Planning Board into this unwise decision that will scar the area and not help local Hudsonians in need.
This is a $2.5m transfer payment of money between NY State tax papers and local developer gentry (Kearney family), that will saddle Hudson with a bigger budget deficit.
http://kearneyrealtygroup.com/about-us/
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So Hudson would rather flood 9 local homes and Habitat for Humanity homes... to make way for non-residents from Manhattan and Albany to move to Hudson to live... in a flood zone.
💰 What's next... is former Democrats Tom DePietro and his wife Dorothy going to raise a "Working Families" Party SuperPAC to dump money on this election so that Hudson can continue to be a receptacle for public corruption...