KINGSTONIAN IN FOCUS
Plan for $48 million Uptown development to be presented at Oct. 15 meeting
A public presentation is planned for later this month on the plan for the Uptown mixed-use project known as The Kingstonian.
Developers of the project are to appear before the city Planning Board when it meets at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, in City Hall, 420 Broadway. The presentation is listed as the last item on the board’s agenda.
Joseph A. Bonura Jr., a principal of JM Development Group LLC of New Windsor, said Monday that the presentation is being made in advance of formal plans being submitted to the city.
“We will be making an informational presentation to introduce the Planning Board to the project and the conceptual designs in anticipation of a submittal of more formal plans before the end of the year,’’ Bonura said in an email.
Bonura said those plans might be made public before the Oct. 15 meeting but that “nothing is ready to share just yet.”
The proposal calls for the
The Kingstonian, first announced in September 2017, is to comprise 132 residential units, 8,500 square feet of commercial space, a 34-room hotel and 420 parking spaces, of which 250 would be for public use.
project to incorporate the site of the city’s former Uptown Parking Garage and a warehouse across Fair Street that belongs to Kingston Plaza owner Herzog Supply Co. An elevated walkway would connect the new complex to the plaza.
The estimated cost of the project is $48 million.
The project is expected to be the beneficiary of $3.8 million from the $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant awarded to Kingston by New York state.
The Kingstonian, first announced in September 2017, is to comprise 132 residential units, 8,500 square feet of commercial space, a 34-room hotel and 420 parking spaces, of which 250 would be for public use.
The apartments and commercial spaces are expected to
to be on the site of the former Uptown Parking Garage along North Front and Fair streets, which now is a street-level municipal parking lot. The apartments will be a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units.
There also are expected to be at least five restaurants and retail shops
developed along North Front Street and along either side of a new pedestrian plaza, a city document says.
In 2005, while the garage still was in use, the New Jersey-based Teicher Organization proposed building a 12-story, 214-unit condominium tower on the site, along with commercial space and a parking structure, but the plan was met with strong objections in the community and ultimately was withdrawn. The garage later was torn down due to structural problems.