Phase 2 of the Red Hook Commons affordable senior housing project has been completed in the Town of Red Hook.
This project is being developed on the site of a former pie and frozen food manufacturing plant located in the Town of Red Hook. The project is being built on property known as the Perx site, which was seized by Dutchess County in 1996 for unpaid taxes, and which suffered from contamination that was ultimately cleaned up with the financial assistance of the DEC provided through the federal Clean Water Bond Act.
The housing complex on this former brownfields site now provides 96 affordable one-bedroom housing units for seniors who meet the project's income qualifications. A third phase with commercial space and market-place apartments is also planned.
(The information from this post was obtained from a June 4, 2008 Poughkeepsie Journal article written by Rasheed Oluwa)
