Meeting.

Does anybody have any questions or concern about the minutes as they were written?

Motion to approve as written.

Okay.

And second and second.

Minutes approved.

The first application for the evening for 1019 Park Street is Joe Thompson.

Good evening, everyone.

Joseph Thompson, architect for 1019 Park Street, which was recently purchased by a local developer based out of Mohegan Lake.

And we took a look at the building.

It's the current MT Bank building on the corner of Park and Bank.

And it's significantly underutilized as it currently stands.

The bank itself on the ground floor has vacated approximately half of the space, downsizing with the advent of modern mobile banking technology.

And a lot of the upper floors are vacant and underutilized as well, the upper floor spaces.

So what we've crafted is a proposal to try to use that building or utilize that building to higher potential than its current state.

These are some of the original historic uh construction drawings dated 1958 of the building was actually first built as first federal, and then at some point MT took over as a current banking tenant.

And what's interesting is uh Ralph Hopkins' name shows up again, same Ralph Hopkins from 41 North Division, same Ralph Hopkins from the City Hall building and a number of other buildings in Peakskill.

Um similar modern style to to 41 North Division, a little bit more high modern than the Streamline Modern, but a unique building for Peak Skill nonetheless with its cut limestone facade, uh its modern bulk type uh massing and puncture windows with a with a curtain wall in the front veneer.

And so this is the building in its current state.

This is a photograph from the intersection of park and bank.

And another photograph from bank street where you can see the building from the from its side or its rear in the side loading alley.

It's essentially a three-sided building because it's land banked into you know an adjacent zero lot line building.

Uh the building itself is a zero lot line.

On the site plan here, what we're proposing to do is in order to utilize that that ground floor to a higher potential is to cut a new entrance into bank street.

So you have some renderings that I'll I'll show later in the presentation.

But there's currently one entry uh from park that's shared.

Uh the entrance currently goes to a small lobby.

One side goes to the bank, another size goes to a common lobby that can access the rear and can access the the upper floor commercial spaces.

And then there's a fire exit stair, like on the bottom right corner onto bank.

So there's an outline on that plan of the bank footprint.

It's it's approximately half of the ground floor footprint, but it's tucked to the upper right hand corner.

So there's an L shape that connects out to park and around to bank, um, which gives us a unique opportunity to utilize that ground floor.

Not that the interiors part of the review, but it it substantiates why we're we're asking for the the new entrance.

And so this is the the current floor plan of the building on the ground floor, the shaded area is the bank and the unshaded area is has been vacant for quite some time.

Second floor is currently a series of commercial suites um, a number of which are vacant.

And these are the existing elevations of the building.

There's um essentially a large volume, it's almost a three-story volume, and that's part of how we crafted the renovations that we're planning for the third store edition, third story edition, is to create that within the volume of the building.

And we created a section I'll show later in the in the slideshow of you know how that that gets accomplished.

But it's almost a it's like a two-story use in a three-story volume.

And so a new floor plan proposes to create uh a new restaurant use that would have dual entrances, one from ARC, one from bank, and the upper floors are proposed to convert to residential, very similar to the the renovations planned at 41 North Division.

It would create a new housing opportunity up to 12 new units in the building.

And so again, similar to 41 North Division, where we had to grapple with converting a non-residential built use building into residential use.

It's deeper than you would typically see for a building that's planned for residential use.

So very similar again to 41 North Division.

What we did is we planned the units in a linear fashion across the the exterior wall where we have exposure for windows, set the corridor in and are able to accomplish some common amenity type spaces and storage along the the back wall that otherwise wouldn't be wouldn't be usable completely for for a residential apartment use.

The third floor, the proposed new third floor layout follows, you know, very similar fashion, essentially stacking those units.

There's also proposal to activate the rooftop for the tenants so we can provide an amenity space on the rooftop.

So what we'd like to do, again, very similar 41 North Division is cut in skylights for those upper apartment units, which allows for additional bedroom, raise them so that there's privacy.

And then around those skylights, create planting uh banks for you know decoratives, vegetable gardens, um, just jet greenscape in general to cut down on the stormwater runoff and beautify the rooftop around a series of seating areas while tucking all the utilities, photovoltaics, everything to the the in this case the west side of the building, which is the non-street facing side.

These are the proposed new elevations.

We'll also show the renderings a little bit later.

But again, we're we're basically staying within the overall mass and volume of the building.

We're proposing to raise it by two feet in height, which we would step at the top so as to not disturb the current coping.

And so that massing when it steps in would have a very limited impact.

So we're trying to very sensitively integrate the third floor in a way that respects the original intent of the architecture, um, essentially mimicking the the window patterns in that storefront on the on the north facing side on Park Street, and then create very similar stacked puncture openings in the cut limestone facades on Bank Street.

This is the section I mentioned that we just recently created.

It's it's not in the package, but it helps to demonstrate how we're planning to accomplish you know this additional floor within the massing.

And you can see the the highlighted portions on the top, that's the existing building section.

We're basically proposing to cut out all the attic construction.

There's large roof trusses.