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Gardiner sets public hearing for Full Circle development, stressing “It’s a hamlet, not a mall”

by Frances Marion Platt
January 4, 2023
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The Town of Gardiner’s most notoriously accident-prone hamlet, the intersection known as Benton Corners, is being targeted for the creation of a new agribusiness hub, on a hitherto-undeveloped 4.78-acre lot across Route 44/55 from Lombardi’s Italian Restaurant and across Bruynswick Road from Base Camp. (Photo by Lauren Thomas)

As Hudson Valley One reported in November, Mike Benevento, the owner of the landscape and trail design company Hudson Valley Trailworks, is seeking to build a new agribusiness hub in Gardiner. The 4.78-acre lot is located across Route 44/55 from Lombardi’s Italian Restaurant at busy Benton Corners, where a long-awaited traffic light is due to be installed by the New York State Department of Transportation in 2023. At its December 20 meeting, the Gardiner Planning Board voted to pass the site plan application along to the Ulster County Planning Board for review, and scheduled a public hearing on the project for January 24.

The new development, to be called Full Circle, is envisioned as a business complex made up of a 4,720-square-foot main building housing a service business, retail space and a bakery, clustered with a separate 1,120-square-foot farm store, a 600-square-foot coffeehouse and a 600-square-foot greenhouse for growing microgreens, with a plaza in the middle. The site, located on the northeast corner of the intersection, would also become home to two small freestanding offices intended for wellness services, plus a separate bathroom building to serve them.

Adjacent to Bruynswick Road, with two new curb-cut entrances, would be an 820-square-foot storage structure for equipment used by Hudson Valley Trailworks. The Planning Board decided that the storage building counts as an “accessory structure” and would therefore not require a special permit. Benevento has committed to conduct a traffic assessment to determine the impact of these two new entrances on traffic flow at the problematic intersection, which has a history of automobile and motorcycle collisions, occasionally fatal.

At the meeting, he said that his intent is also to build hiking and biking trails on the property and eventually link them up to other off-road trails. “Ultimately, the project is about creating connections,” he said. “We’re hoping the neighbors will open their properties up as well. We hope to demonstrate how that can be done.”

Planning Board members praised the color renderings of the project that Full Circle, LLC has submitted with its application materials, but asked for more of them to demonstrate the project’s full potential visual impact from all four directions at the intersection. “It’s a hamlet, not a mall,” noted Marc Moran.

Benevento agreed to tweak the application materials and resubmit them in time for review at the January meeting. The public can view the full packet via the Dropbox link at www.townofgardiner.org/planning-board-agenda.

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Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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