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Town balks at redevelopment

Efforts to meet with VA unsuccessful so far

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Apr-19-09, 07:00 PM
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Town officials in Cortlandt are waiting to hear from the Obama administration’s newly installed veterans affairs chief on their request for a one-year moratorium on the proposed redevelopment of the veterans health care campus in the hamlet of Montrose.


Two months after the town’s initial request to retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, President Obama’s appointment as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the only response from VA headquarters in Washington, D.C., on the matter has been silence, town officials said last week.


The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last year solicited proposals from private developers and public and private development partners to redevelop prime riverfront acreage on the 184-acre Franklin D. Roosevelt campus of the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System. The housing development would be part of the VA’s enhanced use lease program for its underused capital assets around the country.


The project as proposed would put most of the 59-year-old Montrose campus under long-term lease, leaving 12 acres for outpatient medical services for area veterans and residential programs for homeless veterans and those recovering from substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. Other services and facilities would be relocated to the VA campus at Castle Point.


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