New date, place for Kingstonian meeting
A presentation about the proposal is scheduled for Oct. 23 at the Hudson Valley LBGTQ Community Center.
The city has changed the date and venue for a presentation about The Kingstonian, a residential and commercial development to be built at North Front and Fair streets in Uptown Kingston.
The informational session is to start at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Hudson Valley LBGTQ Community Center, 300 Wall St.
The presentation originally was to be made at the Oct. 15 meeting of the Kingston Planning Board, at City Hall, but “the Planning Board agenda was quite full, and The Kingstonian would not have been on until very late in the evening,” said Megan Weiss-Rowe, the city’s director of communications and community engagement.
“There has been a lot of interest in this project, and it was decided that a broad public informational session would be useful,” WeissRowe said.
Still, she said, “the developers of The Kingstonian will have to contact [the city] planning [office] to make arrangements to be put on a future agenda,” she said.
The Oct. 23 session is designed “to provide a status update on The Kingstonian and to enable stakeholders the opportunity to ask questions about the project,” an announcement of the meeting states.
Mayor Steve Noble will make opening remarks.
The Kingstonian is 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, as well as other government funding.
The Kingstonian, first announced in September 2017, is to comprise 132 residential units, 8,500 square feet of commercial space, a 34room hotel and 420 parking spaces, of which 250 would be for public use.
The apartments and commercial spaces are expected to be on the site of the former parking garage, 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 documents say.