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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, February 6, 2019
A complete guide to the Town of Montgomery’s largest building projects
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Medline
Medline Industries, Inc. has proposed
a 1.3-million-square-foot warehouse with
offices, shipping and receiving, warehouse
storage and areas for employees. It also
includes 700 parking spaces for cars and
200 for trucks, according to planning
board documents.
The project is located on the east side
of NYS Route 416 and north of Interstate
I-84, just outside village limits in the
Town of Montgomery. The site has two
proposed accesses on NYS Route 416.
The
project
will
generate
approximately 360 truck and tractor
trailer trips per day. Stacy Rubenstein,
Medline public relations manager, said
these trucks will be routed through
Neelytown Road onto I-84.
The project will cause a physical
disturbance of approximately 85 acres of
land in a 103-acre parcel.
The new facility will serve a
region including New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and portions of
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Medline is a privately held
manufacturer and distributor of medical
supplies with more than 150 locations
18,000 employees worldwide.
Medline purchased the tax parcel from
Aden Brook Agri Sales, USA, Inc., in
September for $17.8 million, according to
Orange County property tax records.
Medline plans to relocate 340 workers
from its outgrown 500,000-square-foot
facility in Wawayanda to the proposed
facility and hire between 150 and 200 more.
Approximately 25 percent of new hires
would be Town of Montgomery residents,
according to Town of Montgomery IDA
documents.
Medline’s application for assistance
with the Orange County IDA states 31
current and future jobs in the management
sector pay on average $69,000 per year and
100 drivers are paid an average of $49,000
per year. Approximately 74 percent, or 369
current and future jobs of the facility’s
approximately 500 workers will make
$33,000 per year.
Medline requested approximately $17.6
million from the Town of Montgomery
Industrial Development Agency (IDA)
for real property tax exemptions and
$8 million in New York State sales and
compensating use tax.
The IDA will not be able to act on
requests for PILOTs until after the
planning board completes its review of
both Medline and Project Sailfish.
City Winery has proposed turning the old Montgomery Worsted Mills into a vineyard and event space.
Medline also negotiated a payment-
in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) with the Orange
County IDA for its facilities in Wawayanda
in 2008, which are expected to end next
year for town, county and school taxes.
The company has made $10.2 billion
in overall sales, according to Medline’s
website.
Project Sailfish
Bluewater Industrial Partners is
planning to build an approximately
1-million-square-foot warehouse for an
undisclosed tenant.
The project is located near I-84 and the
intersections of NYS Route 17K and 747,
with a primary access from Route 747
and a secondary access on Route 17K. A
proposed traffic light would be installed
on NYS Route 747 to provide a northbound
left turn lane and southbound left turn
lane into the site. Route 747 will also be
widened.
Bluewater
Industrial
Partners
representative Don Chase said the
building will exist for the fulfillment
of consumer goods and there will be
no hazardous materials or industrial
processing.
The $75 million project will include
1,000 car and 225 truck parking spaces.
It will also include the construction of a
wastewater treatment plant, which will be
deeded to the town after construction. The
proposed maximum average wastewater
generation for the project is 20,000 gallons
per day.
The project will include 80 acres of
disturbance and 50 acres of impervious
surfaces on an approximately 188-acre
parcel.
The Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) estimates the site will
generate between 617 and 641 car and
truck trips for morning and evening
peak hours for all months of the year
except December. During the peak season
of December, the project will generate
between 975 and 1,032 trips during peak
hours.
The project will create at least 800
jobs, 775 of which will be unskilled
hourly positions starting at $31,200
plus benefits, representing about 97
percent of jobs created, according to
Town of Montgomery IDA documents.
Approximately 3 percent, or 25, new jobs
will be managerial positions starting at
$60,000 plus benefits.
Project
Sailfish
requested
approximately $21.5 million in real
property tax exemptions from the Town
of Montgomery IDA, $3.2 million in New
York State sales and compensating use
tax and $600,000 in mortgage recording
taxes.
Galaxy Project:
Galaxy Limited, LLC has proposed an
industrial park in the Village of Maybrook
on 80 acres of rail-side property that
could support up to 850,000 square feet of
industrial and commercial space.
The project includes light industrial
pad-ready sites, an extension of Main
Street over the railroad tracks, a two-
mile road parallel to the tracks that
connects Henry Hanning Drive in the
Town of Montgomery with a Main Street
extension in Maybrook, a pedestrian
tunnel connecting downtown Maybrook
and the new complex, and a two-mile
hike/bike path with access to Stewart
State Forest.
Galaxy received a $600,000 Empire
State Development grant to complete
phase one of the multi-phase project,
which includes preparation of several site
pads and the access road.
City Winery
City Winery will turn the old
Montgomery Worsted Mills property into
a fully operational vineyard and event
space, including a restaurant, a distillery,
tasting rooms, 14 guest rooms, outdoor
ceremony and performance areas and
parking for approximately 300 cars.
The outdoor stage will only be used
from 1 to 4 p.m. on weekends, which the
applicant may stipulate as part of the
planned development district.
The property will be the first non-
urban winery for the metropolitan chain
with locations in New York City, Chicago,
Atlanta, Nashville, Washington, D.C., and
Boston.
It will also be the first to aid in the
production of other City Winery sites
along with offering experiential elements
of wine and wine making to the public.
Michael Dorf, founder and CEO,
said the winemaker’s support team and
tasting room and café staff will be hired
locally, generating between 15 and 20 jobs.
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