TOWN OF FISHKILL – Work originally slated to begin in April 2023 has finally started on the Continental Commons project being developed by Dominic Broccoli. Years of litigation between Broccoli and the Friends of Fishkill Supply Depot delayed the permitting process for the developer seeking to develop his 12-acre parcel on Route 9, just south of I-84.
Broccoli previously told Mid-Hudson News that he plans to develop the project in phases and replicate existing historic buildings. “Shops, restaurants, hotels, visitors center. I want to put a little museum on the southern part of the property where the burial grounds are. I want to put a little amphitheater,” he said.
The property was a major supply depot for colonists during the American Revolution. Another part of the property houses a Revolutionary War-era cemetery.
The project, first conceived by Broccoli in 2015, will include restaurants, shops, a 90-room boutique inn, and a living museum that tells the story of the Fishkill Supply Depot during the American Revolution.
Friends of the Fishkill Depot, a group opposed to the project, had maintained the property was the final resting place for soldiers during that historic time in early American history, but project spokesman Greg Lane said that was debunked.
“New York State Historic Preservation Office archaeological studies have concluded that there is no evidence that there are soldiers buried on the property. But with that said, there are burials of probably a family plot in that area that are being preserved and are part of the educational interpretive preservation that is going to take place on the property,” Lane said.
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