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Mid Hudson Times, Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Liberty Street School developer to apply for CFA funding
The project has secured Phase 1
approval for tax credits through the New
York State Historic Preservation grants
program, Dodd said. Along his wife, Dodd
also owns Brooklyn Fire Proof, housing
art studios, offices, manufacturing space,
and film and television sound stages. Dodd
said he expects the state’s Consolidated
Funding Application process to wrap up
at the end of the year.
Constructed in 1891, the building served
as a grammar school until it closed in 1980.
It has sat unoccupied since. If RipRap’s
plan comes to fruition, the center would
add to a burgeoning business community
developing along the city’s Liberty Street
Corridor.
To learn more about the project,
visit Riprapllc.com and click on the
“commercial” tab on the homepage.
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The owner of the old Liberty Street
School is seeking additional state funding
to continue with a plan to transform the
building into a film arts center.
One Liberty Street was the topic at
a July meeting of the Newburgh City
Council, which voted to endorse the non-
profit Best Resource Center to apply for
state funds on behalf of developer RipRap
LLC in its effort to rehabilitate the ailing
three-story building, at the corner of
the Liberty and Renwick streets. “We’re
ready to go,” said building owner and
RipRap co-founder Thomas Dodd.
RipRap will apply for monies from the
New York State Homes and Community
Renewal’s Main Street Grant Program
to complete the PS 6 Center for Film and
Television, expected to provide creative
space for art, film and television studios.
According to RipRap’s website, the
project will involve “historic preservation
as well as modern, green-building
practices.”
“The building will include studios
for artists and entrepreneurs, as well
as flexible spaces for galleries, classes,
and community happenings,” the website
reads. “RipRap is hoping for a harmonious
A postcard de picts the old Liberty Street
School which was built in 1891 and closed
99 years later.
reinvigoration of the school building and
the surrounding community.”
NW fuel plant plan
raises concerns
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last week recently.
As proposed for New Windsor,
BioHiTech industrial fans will activate
natural microbes that accelerate
decomposition in the processing building.
Garbage material is to be dumped into
a pit. Quick opening shutters will activate
and then close immediately. Drying fans
are to be used. Natural microbes will
accelerate decomposition.
It’s a process used in other countries,
says Soriano.
Basically the plant would process an
estimated 150,000 tons of garbage a year
that would otherwise take up room in the
area’s shrinking dump and bury landfills.
The new biological treatment plant
will pull out metallics with an overhead
magnet and optical sorters will remove
plastics. The final step is after removing
PVC plastics they go through a shredder.
“This project is particularly expensive
– in the $35-million range - because of the
cost of developing this very irregular site
in New Windsor,” said Soriano. He said
the hours of operation would be in the 6
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
BioHiTech will also create end-product
at Stewart that can be used as fuel by
cement plants that still burn “lots of
coal,” says Soriano, director of business
development for BioHiTech America.
“We’re taking out PVC plastics from
the garbage stream that would be buried
in landfills, right?” he points out Soriano.
Another benefit, says BioHiTech’s
literature, is the New Windsor facility
will “significantly reduce landfill waste
disposal as well as truck traffic at the
New Windsor facility and “is expected
to be capable of significantly processing
130,000 tons of municipal solid waste
which amounts to a reduction of
approximately 30,000 tons per year of
carbon dioxide equivalent.”
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