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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
Not so New look for Ann Street
Abandoned warehouse to be transformed
fast!
City Council tables resolution
opposing Danskammer project
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
The City of Newburgh is joining the
conversation on the Danskammer Energy
Plant in the Town of Newburgh. A
resolution opposing the plant was put on
the agenda at the City Council meeting on
January 28.
After a presentation by Howard
Taylor, Chief Operating Officer of
Danskammer Energy, and a large
outpouring of support from laborers
and businesses in the region, the council
voted unanimously to table the resolution
for further consideration.
The resolution predicts serious
environmental impacts if the project
were passed. The resolution predicts the
proposed plant will burn more fossil fuels
and produce more air pollutants than the
current plant.
“Children, the elderly and anyone with
pre-existing health conditions affecting
their lungs such as asthma or emphysema
is especially harmful, whereas air quality
in the Hudson Valley already violates
federal air quality standards on some
days,” read the resolution. “Everyone has
the right to clean air and a safe and
healthy environment.”
Passing this resolution would put
the City of Newburgh in opposition of
the plant, and encourages neighboring
municipalities to do the same. The city
The inside of the building was completely gutted in order to pave the way for the new design.
By KATELYN CORDERO
[email protected]
An abandoned warehouse at 105 Ann
St is getting a much needed facelift by the
company Between Spaces. The project
includes half of the building used for
commercial and half for art spaces. ADS
Warehouse will be home to Between
Spaces and various professional artists
and local companies.
“We are from Brooklyn and we’ve been
looking for studio space for a number of
years,” said Gita Nanean, Partner of
Between Spaces. “[We] decided the city
wasn’t affordable anymore and wanted
to own our own space. Newburgh is a
great location in terms of accessibility
it’s walkable and it has a good minded
art community. The building stock
is beautiful we thought it would be a
perfect fit.”
The building has been completely
gutted from the inside to make room
for the ADS Warehouse. Proposals to
the Architectural Review Commission
proposed three studio spaces, two
storefronts, and an art exhibit. The
building will also include on-site
parking, a garden and two courtyards
with space for the community to come
together.
Through her architecture firm
Threading Co. Nanean designed an
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environmentally friendly building
with enough solar energy to supply a
majority of power to the building. They
will also have a green roof covered with
grass, with many benefits including the
reduction of runoff and improvement of
the quality of water.
Nanean and her partner originally
looked at the space as a place solely for
Between Spaces, but when they saw the
potential and location of the space they
decide to open it up commercially and
for the community.
“When we first took the building it
was supposed to be a project for ourselves
and then we realized we were in the
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