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No progress on vacant Walmart for county offices
Dec 17, 2010 12:18 pm
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Kaz is selling their property and losing their tax break. Photo by Tom Roe."]
[/caption]Carole Osterink in The Gossips of Rivertown reports what happened at this morning's meetings of the Columbia County Capital Resource Corporation and the Columbia County IDA, both at their Route 9 office in Hudson. The CRC meeting began in executive session, and then they announced they would take no action today on the purchase of the old Walmart building and said further discussion was required. The CRC may purchase the building for the county to move in much of its services in the enormous space. After that, the Columbia County IDA approved the termination of the PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) on the Kaz building on Route 9, in Greenport. "Kaz -- not the building but the business -- has been sold to a company called Helen of Troy, which makes hair dryers and other kinds of salon and spa appliances. The building in Greenport is not part of the sale. Kaz will keep it and continue to try to sell it. In the meantime, the PILOT on the building will terminate at the end of 2010, and the building will go on the tax rolls at full assessment at the beginning of the new year," Osterink reports.
[/caption]Carole Osterink in The Gossips of Rivertown reports what happened at this morning's meetings of the Columbia County Capital Resource Corporation and the Columbia County IDA, both at their Route 9 office in Hudson. The CRC meeting began in executive session, and then they announced they would take no action today on the purchase of the old Walmart building and said further discussion was required. The CRC may purchase the building for the county to move in much of its services in the enormous space. After that, the Columbia County IDA approved the termination of the PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) on the Kaz building on Route 9, in Greenport. "Kaz -- not the building but the business -- has been sold to a company called Helen of Troy, which makes hair dryers and other kinds of salon and spa appliances. The building in Greenport is not part of the sale. Kaz will keep it and continue to try to sell it. In the meantime, the PILOT on the building will terminate at the end of 2010, and the building will go on the tax rolls at full assessment at the beginning of the new year," Osterink reports.