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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council unanimously approved an agreement this week to purchase the former Wood & Hyde Leather Co. property for up to $650,000 for adaptive reuse as the city’s new Department of Public Works facility.
The agreement approved on Tuesday authorizes Mayor Vincent DeSantis to execute a contract to purchase the Wood & Hyde Leather Co. properties at 68 Wood St. and 18 W. Ninth Ave. The properties span more than six acres with multiple manufacturing, storage and office buildings on the site.
The city negotiated a purchase price for the properties of $500,000, which can be increased to a maximum of $650,000 depending on the cost of environmental remediation. If cleanup costs exceed $150,000, the contract can be cancelled by the city or the current property owner, otherwise the current property owner would be responsible for covering the excess remediation costs from the proceeds of the net sale of the property.
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Cllr Mike Turner described East Sussex County Council’s decision as ‘grossly irresponsible’.
Extensive highway repairs are set to begin on Monday (January 25) close to the Conquest Hospital and the adjacent Hastings Centre on The Ridge, which has been set up as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.
Cllr Turner said: “Negotiating The Ridge is a nightmare at the best of times. Now, the county council is planning to throw another spanner in the works, making it even more difficult by disrupting traffic just as our most vulnerable citizens try to get to their inoculation appointments in a timely fashion.
Gloversville will pay $25k to establish homeless shelter | The Daily Gazette
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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council voted 7-0 Tuesday night to contribute $25,000 toward the establishment of a Code Blue temporary homeless shelter to operate between Jan. 15 and April 30 at 144 E. Fulton St.
Tuesday’s council vote came after months of wrangling over the issue of where a homeless shelter should be established in Gloversville.
“We’ve been working very hard on finding an alternative location that would be acceptable for the Code Blue shelter, other than the 33 Bleecker St. site,” Mayor Vince DeSantis told the council. “This is enabled by virtue of the change in the zoning law that we effectuated Jan. 1, which allowed Code Blue shelters in the commercial zone.”