Hutton Brickyards offers training for jobs
Applications are being accepted for a tuition-free school that will instruct students for hospitality positions
Applications are being accepted to a tuition-free school to train students for hospitality jobs at Hutton Brickyards.
KINGSTON, N.Y. » Applications are now being accepted to a free-tuition school designed to train students in the hospitality industry.
The Salt School is offering training as part of an effort launched between Salt Hotels and owners of the Hutton Brickyards to build, among other things, 31 luxury cabins, a restaurant and spa at the Hudson River waterfront.
‘ We are delighted to announce the application process is now open for Salt School for the recruitment at Hutton Brickyards which is scheduled to open in April,” said David Bowd, chief executive officer of Salt Hotels. “We have been working closely with the Mayor (Steve Noble) and the city offices to ensure we are all coordinated on our local hiring strategy.”
The first round of employment will be about 50 positions, including housekeeping, front desk, food and beverage, and managerial, the company said.
“Our number one priority is to hire locally and have seen a great interest level even before the applications are open,” Bowd said. “We will of course ensure the safety of our teachers and our attendees through both online and in-person sessions ensuring physical distancing at all times.
The Salt School will start in February. To get all details on how to apply digitally or via telephone, visit the Salt Hotels website.
Planned improvements at the Hutton Brickyards property would enhance the hospitality component of a luxury camping project being undertaken there.
In December, the Kingston Planning Board made no rulings on the applica
tion to expand the number of cabins, and add a restaurant and spa but did vote unanimously to reaffirm its status as the lead agency in the environmental review of the project.
The board also agreed to continue to accept public comment on the application through its next meeting beginning at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
Written comments can be emailed to scahill@ kingston-ny.gov.
In November, officials had announced that additional luxury cabins would be built as part of the Hutton Brickyards project.
Brickyards owner Karl Slovin and Salt Hotels have teamed up to, among other things, operate 31 luxury cabins at the 72acre waterfront site along North Street, as well as a spa and restaurant 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 i n 2014 by 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 this April and provide “outdoor recreation and indoor luxury ... conveyed through casually elegant surroundings.”
Guest rates will range from $495 to $1,495 per night during the “high season” and from $195 to $695 during the off- season.
The studio of Kristina Dousharm Architecture designed the 300-squarefoot cabins and collaborated on the interior designs with O’Shea, who is Salt’s chief creative officer.
O’Shea has said the cabins will “cut a striking profile against the landscape.”
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 beekeeping.
Slovin, who is president of MWest Holdings, bought the Hutton Brickyards site seven years ago after decades of the property sitting unused. Under his ownership, the site has been used for indoor- outdoor markets, business events and concerts, but there have been no longterm operations.
The site was used for brick manufacturing from 1865 to 1890 by Cordts and Hutton Co. and from 1890 to 1965 by the Hutton Brick Co. It later was sold to the Jova Manufacturing Co. and then the Staples Brick Co., which lasted until 1980.
A restaurant operated at the site briefly in the late 1980s.