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Left: Harbors at Haverstraw is Rockland’s only riverfront destination community, offering 106 luxury rental units. Below: GDC’s Harbor Square in Ossining.
oping around their public-transportation systems. Over the bridge, GDC recently de- veloped Harbors at Haverstraw in Rockland County, a 106-unit luxury rental building on the Hudson River. Also in Rockland, the town of Clarkstown is conducting the Nan- uet Transit-Oriented Development project, which seeks to convert formerly industrial land along the railway into a mixed-use neighborhood, linking downtown with a shopping center and providing a new mul- timodal transit facility and workforce hous- ing. The new neighborhood is estimated to create up to 620,000 square feet of new retail, commercial, residential and public- transit space. The NYSERDA has provided a grant for the project under the Cleaner Greener Communities Program. Rockland County Executive Ed Day says, “Fostering transit-oriented development is a reliable way to improve connections between transit stations and our “Main Streets” and down- towns, which in turn improves our economy and quality of life.
“The Nanuet Transit-Oriented Develop- ment project,” Day adds, “is taking positive actions to improve and promote the Nanuet hamlet’s downtown area, which will attract new residents and reinvestment. Project
plans such as encouraging mixed-use de- velopment, creating new districts, public spaces and parks, changing restrictive zon- ing codes to better accommodate transit- friendly land use, providing a variety of housing choices and improving pedestrian and traffic circulation all will help to make this Rockland County hamlet an even more sought-after place to live, work and play.”
Putnam County’s major transit-orient- ed development project is a multiphase project in Brewster. Covington Develop- ment LLC and the village of Brewster have signed a master-developer agreement. The project’s proposal includes 290,000 gross square footage of mixed-use retail and residential space, including approximately 270 apartments and 30,000 gross square footage of retail. The first phase targets the areas by Main Street, Railroad Avenue, Marvin Avenue and Southeast Museum. Still in the conceptual design phase, the project is geared toward providing a place for people to live, work and play, including Millennials and empty nesters looking to downsize, says Sandra Fusco, deputy com- missioner of Putnam County Planning, Development and Public Transportation Department. Putnam’s County Executive,
MaryEllen Odell, says, “The importance of this project lies within the scope of build- ing a sustainable economy. These types of developments attract the Millennial generation. Putnam County has identified this generation as being critical to a sustain- able economy.” Construction is expected to begin in late 2018.
Orange County is introducing its first major transit-oriented development proj- ect, The Gardens at Harriman Station in the village of Woodbury, with minor acre- age in the village of Harriman. The site for the Gardens at Harriman Station project is adjacent to the Harriman Metro-North train station and is proposed to include 1,500 homes and 250,000 square feet of commercial space. There will be about 1,000 one- and two-bedroom apartments, and roughly 350 townhouses with two or three bedrooms, each around 2,000–2,200 square feet. Geared toward Millennials and empty nesters, about 20% of the apartments and townhouses will be considered workforce housing. The project, expected to be built in phases over the next several years, will also include stores, restaurants and recre- ational amenities. Orange County’s com- missioner of planning, David Church, says, “Having advocated for transit-oriented development and led marketing and re- zoning efforts for supportive lands near the Harriman train station, the County is thrilled that the marketplace is respond- ing. As the county planner, this is the type of genuinely desirable, smart development we want to attract.”
“The importance of a vibrant, well-functioning transit hub to a city cannot be overstated” —White Plains mayor Thomas Roach
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