KINGSTON – Mayor Steven Noble and Council President Andrea Shaut have proposed a plan to remove the city-owned sidewalk canopies along portions of Wall Street and North Front Street in Uptown Kingston, known as the Pike Plan.
“The Pike Plan has been a source of debate and concern for many years, and now the structure has reached a crisis point,” said the mayor.
He said the council president and he believe the best decision is to remove the canopy and return to the historic façades of the Stockade District. “Kingston has worked extensively to protect and preserve its historic buildings and architecture and the Pike Plan is not a part of that historic fabric,” Noble said.
The estimated cost of removal is more than $1 million.
Noble and Shaut have proposed a two-phased approach: first, remove the structure and make immediate weatherproofing repairs at the attachment point of each building; and second, assess the condition of each façade and create a detailed scope of work to assist the property owners in returning the impacted sections to their original conditions.
