Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 7

25 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 7 TOWN OF POUGHKEEPS I E , NEW YORK that will include 16 parcels to be developed into residential, hotel, medical, and other- use properties, as well as a 153,000- square- foot retail shopping village. The project will eventually include up to 750 residential units, the adaptive reuse of six historic buildings, and restoration of the Great Lawn on the former Hudson River State Hospital campus. “That’s also going to be a walkable community, but a different kind of walkable community,” Baisley explains. “It’s more of an urban setting, as opposed to a small village setting. There will be a variety of businesses with many different amenities.” The town’s Arlington Business District has two significant new projects in the works. Vassar College’s Inn and Institute and the Arthur S. May Redevelopment project. The Inn and Institute is a $34-million multi-story structure that will include 5O guest rooms, a restaurant and convening space, as well as being home to the college’s Institute for the Liberal Arts. The goal for the property is to include programing that will attract people to the area to advance discourse on topics of local, regional, national, and global interest. “It will be a state-of-the- art green structure that will attract people for educational conferences and events,” says Baisley. The Arthur S. May project is one of many redevelopment projects that are repurposing buildings that have outlived their current use. The redevelopment centers on the former site of the historic Arthur S. May Elementary School, built in 1922 and left vacant since 2014. The old school building will be repurposed, as Baisley reports, “Approximately 198 apartments will be built with a retail section facing Raymond Avenue. That will rejuvenate the Arlington business district with the added density in a walkable community.”