Columbia County Morning News reports the demolition of the Colonial Revival house at 117 Fairview and the outbuildings on the site has begun. Click here to view a video clip.
Below are the most up-to-date renderings in Gossips' files of the apartment buildings that will be constructed on the site.
The project, which will provide twenty-six market rate units, was granted site plan approval by the Hudson Planning Board in May 2025, two years after the application was first presented in June 2023.
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Progress. This is precisely what Hudson needs. Hope the landscaping is nicer than the rendering but more market-rate apartments will lead to lower-priced housing in the city and its immediate surroundings. This is a good thing, and I'm glad that the property owner/developer stuck it out through some of the worst of the PB's churlish behavior.
ReplyDeleteMarket rate apartments are not progress. We have those already.
ReplyDeleteSupply. Demand. yada yada.
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ReplyDeleteAll housing helps. This is a frequently debated topic, often unclear in the politicized press, even though the data is quite clear so please see below:
1. Movin’ On Up: How Costly New Homes Create Affordable Old Homeshttps://cayimby.org/blog/movin-on-up-how-costly-new-homes-create-affordable-old-homes/
2. From the FED: How New Apartments Create Opportunities for All
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2024/how-new-apartments-create-opportunities-for-all
See "Chain of Moves" concept.
And then here is the evidence from the National Multi-Family Housing Council with a nice graph:
Austin's Rent Drop Isn't "Weird"—It's Economics
https://www.nmhc.org/news/research-corner/2025/austins-rent-drop-isnt-weird-its-economics/
The question is how we can build more faster, at all price points.
How can we send out a bat signal to private developers, especially of Missing Middle Housing, at all price points, that Hudson has a functioning Planning Board again and that we welcome renovation and new builds.
Michelle Tullo should be spending every single day working to move the Kearney Mill Street development to a suitable new site in Hudson or Greenport before that grant money is lost and re-assigned. Failing to do so is antithetical to her only job.
That can happen in parallel to dozens of ADUs springing up, former Galvan (now Bard) buildings coming online and going on the market. At least one recently sold bringing a new family to Hudson.
It's time to build.
More supply means less demand which leads to lower prices.
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