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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Mid-Broadway project inches forward
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
Representatives from Mill Street
Partners came to Newburgh City Hall
this month seeking a confirmation of
support for its proposed affordable-
housing project, slated for construction
on Broadway between Johnston and
Lander streets.
The Newburgh City Council voted
again to support the project at a recent
meeting, removing the word “conceptual”
from the language of the resolution.
The five-year-old project design includes
91 affordable-housing units and two retail
spaces, including a 12,000-square-foot
grocery store on the ground floor. Mill
Street is applying for state tax credits
to fund most of the $31-million project.
A resolution of support from the city is
required in order for the developer to
secure state funding.
“This was our first opportunity to come
here to you to request a new resolution of
support,” said Mill Street partner Patrick
Normoyle, appearing before the city
council on July 6.
The council granted the developer a
Artist’s rendering of the proposed Mid Broadway Development.
resolution of support for the project last
fall, but Mill Street did not have all of the
municipal approvals it needed at the time,
said Normoyle. “This is the first time that
we will be applying for funding (when)
we are ready to go,” he said. “We’re well
poised to submit this application.”
“It’s time,” said Councilwoman Hillary
Rayford. “This has dragged on.”
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agreed. “I think it’s a bad project,” said
Councilwoman Genie Abrams. “I just
cannot get into a project that is that
expensive to our tax payers.”
Abrams was alluding to the project’s
30-year payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT),
which critics say deprives the city of
much-needed tax revenue. Parking is
another so urce of friction regarding the
project. A group of city residents outlined
what they described as a lack of parking
as a key complaint in a 2014 lawsuit they
filed against the city.
“I think we’re subsidizing this project
with tax payer money,” said city Mayor
Judy Kennedy shortly before the council
voted in support of the project on July 10.
“People are not going to have any place
to park.”
Last year, Mill Street Partners
threatened to slap the city with a $31
million lawsuit if it did not follow through
with a 2012 land development agreement
for the project.
The developers will still need to get an
approval from the Newburgh Housing
Authority to remove a deed restriction
limiting development of the property to
municipal purposes only.
Mill Street attorney David Cooper said
he was hopeful the housing authority
would agree to lift the restriction in the
coming weeks. “The deed restriction itself
would prevent any private redevelopment
of that site, no matter who is proposing
it,” he told the council. “Otherwise the lot
would just sit there vacant.”
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