Massive Cioni bid: ‘We were all flabbergasted’
The bid on the Cioni Building, which is owned by the school district, comes as real estate prices in the city’s historic Stockade District have gone into an upward spiral.
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Wrestling academy opens in Saugerties
“It’s a dream come true,” says Glasco resident Joseph DePola as he looks around his newly opened New York Wrestling Academy (NYWA) at Simmons Plaza on Route 9W. With its karate school, fitness center and now the wrestling academy, the plaza is quickly turning into a center for physical fitness.
Tax deal begins Hudson Valley Mall’s second life
Will drastically reduced assessment enhance the town’s commercial property values?
Another win in court for Belleayre Resort proposal
The Catskill Heritage Alliance has lost its latest attempt to block the granting of a permit to developer Crossroads Ventures for the proposed Belleayre Resort project.
Some Saugerties merchants see a decline in their businesses
“Business has been declining for the last three years,” said one business owner. “It just seemed to go away. And this summer it’s just getting worse.”
Columbia Beauty returns to Uptown Kingston
Columbia Wig and Beauty Supply shuttered its magical doors in late December after four decades of operation, leaving local wannabe pirates and princesses in the dust. Enter young Felicita Chipak of Port Ewen.
Woodstock Rite Aid pharmacy closing July 10
Pharmacy records will move to the nearby CVS.
New Paltz’s Fox & Hound Wine & Spirits now under new ownership
A friendly, familiar face to many in New Paltz after 15 years as manager/wine buyer at In Good Taste (not to mention as head chef at Main Course in its early years), Ken Maguire has nothing but good things to say about his former bosses, Deb and Rick Rauch.
At Chamber meeting, Bellayre Resort presented with gentler tone
Initially projected to cost $360 million, the project has been through a number of plans and iterations.
Kingston’s Uptown real estate surge: helpful influx or toxic gentrification?
A red-hot real estate market has brought in to Uptown a tsunami of downstate money from investors willing to pay cash for properties at prices that would have been considered a good joke just a few years ago.