On Saturday, there was a ceremonial groundbreaking for the ReGeneration Campus, the new home of Kite's Nest, to be built at 59 North Front Street. There is an article about it in today's Times Union: "$7.1 million environmental education campus breaks ground in Hudson."
The following is quoted from the article:
The two-acre riverfront campus will provide a permanent home for the nonprofit youth organization Kite's Nest and support ecological education, youth leadership, the arts, and environmental justice programs. The 8,500-square-foot facility will include "innovative" learning spaces--including an arts workshop, digital media and recording studio, and learning kitchen--performance and event space, a courtyard, offices, exhibition space and classrooms, according to a news release by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. It will also be a place where other nonprofits, grassroots groups and regional networks can hold gatherings, programs, trainings and events. . . .
New York state awarded $7.1 million in grant funding for the ReGeneration Campus project, including $1.87 million from the Council on the Arts' Capital Projects Fund; $1.63 million from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority through the Building Cleaner Communities Competition; $1.6 million each from Empire State Development and the DEC's Community Environment Education Centers grant program; and $400,000 through the Department of State's Downtown Revitalization Initiative.
The plans for the project that were presented to the Planning Board can be found here.
Kite’s Nest will now have to tone down its overtly political activity (bordering on neo-marxism), now that it has taken public funds and can be held accountable by several NYS legal bodies or the courts.
ReplyDeleteRemember when the 501c3 was responsible for political protests outside Didi Barrett's office on Warren Street...
What an exciting moment for Hudson and everyone at Kite's Nest, and the youth of our city.
ReplyDelete$7.1 million of funding is a transformative investment in Hudson and our City's youth and the site plan looks amazing.
What an impressive piece of work by the entire team. Congratulations to Kite's Nest and our community, and everyone involved in their work to breath new life into this site. It's an admirable story of recovery after a devastating fire.
A moment for celebration.
Nathan Woodhull
Where is the off-street parking?
ReplyDeleteTheresa Joyner asked that very same question, to their chagrin.
DeleteIt is an exciting moment for Hudson.
ReplyDeleteBut we should absolutely not forget the building that was there before, how recently it stood there, how that location became a vacant lot and why.
Another brackish chapter in Hudson’s new history.