WHITE PLAINS – The City of White Plains is this year’s Hudson Valley winner of the state’s Mid-Hudson Downtown Revitalization Initiative $10 million grant.
Governor Kathy Hochul made the announcement on Thursday while in the Westchester County Seat.
“It’s that one-time infusion of money that changes not just the landscape of a community and the identity of it, it changes psychology of a community,” she said. “I’ve seen it all over the state where people felt they really cared about them, specially our smaller communities that sometimes get overlooked and it says you matter to us, you matter to this governor because I’ve been there, I’ve represented the most rural parts of our state, the small communities and I represent the cities.”
The governor also announced two $4.5 million New York Forward awards to the villages of Highland Falls and Montgomery.
Much of Highland Falls was decimated last summer when heavy rains caused massive flooding causing heavy damage to homes and other buildings and washed out roads and other infrastructure.
The Village of Montgomery has stood the test of time as a municipality that has kept its small-town culture.
Orange County Partnership President Maureen Halahan called the grants to the two villages “a wonderful victory” for Highland Falls and Montgomery.
