City sets hearing on luxury cabins plan
KINGSTON, N.Y. » The city’s Planning Board has set a public hearing on an expanded plan for luxury cabins and other amenities at the Hudson River waterfront.
According to the Planning Board agenda, the public hearing has been set for Monday, Dec. 21, during a regularly scheduled meeting of the board starting at 6 p.m.
The city’s Planning Office says it would like written comments submitted by Friday, Dec. 18, to scahill@ kingston-ny.gov. However, in-person comments can be expressed by phone during the virtual session by calling (866) 899- 4679, access code: 252470285.
The hearing will focus on plans by Hutton Brickyards owner Karl Slovin and Salt Hotels to, among other things, operate 31 luxury cabins at the 72-acre waterfront site along North Street, as well as a restaurant, spa and other attractions.
The plan is not the same as one approved by the Kingston Planning Board in December 2019 that called for 24 cabins at the riverfront. Salt Hotels didn’t get involved until the end of this past summer, though Slovin said 19 of the previously approved cabins are nearly complete.
Founded in 2014 by David Bowd and Kevin O’Shea, Salt Hotels has an “awardwinning approach to hospitality [that] has set new standards in design and guest experience,” according to a company statement.
The company has created the Salt House Inn and Eben House in Provincetown, Mass., and has two projects in New Jersey.
It hopes to open the cabin complex at the Hutton Brickyards site in April 2021 and provide “outdoor recreation and indoor luxury ... conveyed through casually elegant surroundings.”
Planned amenities at the site, according to the developers, include an archery range, a croquet lawn, fire pits and opportunities for hiking, guided kayaking, paddle boarding, running, outdoor yoga, snowshoeing, cross- country skiing and bee-keeping.