HUDSON—While the Hudson Common Council voted October 18 to delay giving the Galvan Foundation a tax break to restore a theater in Hudson a county official on a Galvan housing board expressed great optimism for the project.
The property consists of the former theater building at the corner of Columbia and 7th Street and a wood frame formerly-residential building next to it on Columbia Street. The frame building is at the end of a row of residential houses between 6th Street and the theater. The Galvan Foundation is a property owner and developer in the Hudson area. Among its properties are below-market rate housing, the armory, and a motel.
Galvan submitted its application for the tax exemption late, so an assessor turned down the exemption request. Later, legal analysis showed that lateness was insufficient grounds for denial, and Galvan challenged the rejection. Hudson Common Council President Tom DePietro warned that the Common Council has very little authority to block the exemption. (more…)