KINGSTON – The City of Kingston and development firm Baxter have broken ground on a $30.2 million mixed-use development at 615 Broadway that will bring 70 housing units and more than 8,500 square feet of commercial space to the Midtown corridor.
The site has been vacant since the former King’s Inn was demolished in 2011. The project is expected to create about 60 construction jobs, with 90 percent of the work performed by local labor, according to the city.
The development will include 70 residential units, including 10 studios, 44 one-bedroom units and 16 two-bedroom units. Fourteen units, or 20 percent, will be designated as affordable, while the remaining workforce housing will be priced for households earning an average of 80 percent to 120 percent of the area median income.
The project will also include over 8,500 square feet of commercial space, 37 parking spaces, and six permanent jobs.
A publicly accessible courtyard will be dedicated as the Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Plaza, honoring the Kingston-born musician and composer who helped pioneer the practice of deep listening.
“We are proud to break ground today on this exciting project,” Mayor Steven Noble said. “This project will bring jobs, housing, and brand-new retail space to Midtown, and will honor one of Kingston’s great artists, Pauline Oliveros, by incorporating the Deep Listening Plaza into its design.”
The city selected Baxter, a community development firm, through a request-for-proposals process. The company has developed more than 1,000 housing units and more than 300,000 square feet of commercial and community facility space throughout the Hudson Valley, according to the city.
The project also includes remediation of the brownfield site.
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