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Zero Place breaks ground in New Paltz

Zero Place breaks ground in New Paltz

Zero Place will include 46 apartments and a ground floor of retail shops, and it is located at the corner of Mullberry Street and Route 32 North in New Paltz. Project engineer Barry Medenbach predicts that construction will take between 14 and 16 months to complete.

New Paltz village limits building height to 3 stories on north side

New Paltz village limits building height to 3 stories on north side

The decision, which affects a mixed-use zoning area along North Chestnut Street, will reduce the current limit by one story. “We already have a downtown New Paltz,” said former mayor Tom Nyquist, expressing a view which is common among those seeking to scale back the current rules. Others, like architect David Toder, whose mixed-use Zero Place development is proposed for the area ,see the blighted North Chestnut corridor as precisely where a vision of 21st-century development should be unfurled.