NEWBURGH – The City of Newburgh has issued a request for proposals for developers to create a master land use-redevelopment plan for city-owned municipal buildings and land parcels.
That would include constructing a new city hall, police, and fire department headquarters.
City Planning and Economic Development Director Ali Church said the plan should also include municipal parking within a mixed-use, transit-oriented development scenario.
“We are looking to consolidate the governmental offices along with public safety, potentially on a new site that would hopefully be a campus and in exchange for that, we are hoping that we have some value in the land and buildings that we currently own and are listed in this RFP,” she told Mid-Hudson News.
City Hall is a stately building near the foot of Broadway, but it has several structural issues. The public safety building, that houses the police and fire departments, overlooks the Hudson River, but that facility, which was built in 1978, has serious mold and air quality issues.
Over the years, many Newburgh officials have considering building a campus at the “Mid-Broadway” parcel that the owns and Church said that would “make a lot of sense.”
A few years ago, one proposal for the existing municipal buildings was to restore City Hall into a boutique hotel and city officials have felt that the location of the public safety building would be ideal for a hotel/conference center.
