Owners aim to create local gathering place as well as a getaway By Tim Rowland Its blond wood gleaming and glass sparkling after a nine-month makeover, the long-dormant Paleface ski center on Route 86 in Jay has reopened as the NewVida … [Read more...] about At NewVida, amenities for both locals and visitors
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Help is on the way: Both Meadow
Project name: Both Meadow What is it? Four affordable cape-style homes in the hamlet of Keene. Who are the developers? The Housing Assistance Program of Essex County, along with the Town of Keene and the Keene Housing Task Force. How does it … [Read more...] about Help is on the way: Both Meadow
Taking Stock of Housing: Infrastructure woes limit growth
What's missing from the housing equation? Infrastructure, such as public sewer systems. And although the price tag is more than small towns can afford, grants are often out of reach By Tim Rowland By land mass, the village of Speculator in the … [Read more...] about Taking Stock of Housing: Infrastructure woes limit growth
Help is on the way: Homeshare programs
What is it? Homeshare programs typically match older people with bigger houses than they need with younger individuals or families in need of housing. Younger people get reduced rent in exchange for doing chores like mowing grass, shoveling snow and … [Read more...] about Help is on the way: Homeshare programs
Housing series to wrap with in-person event
The gap between what people earn and the housing they can afford has been widening in the Adirondacks. Add to the problem a shortage of available housing and constraints on development and you've got a housing crisis. This summer, Adirondack … [Read more...] about Housing series to wrap with in-person event
Taking Stock of Housing: Market mayhem
Why we can't 'single family home our way out' of this dilemma By Tim Rowland Thumbing through a 2023 report underwritten by the Lake Champlain/Lake George Planning Board, Jeremy Evans, director of the Franklin County Industrial Development … [Read more...] about Taking Stock of Housing: Market mayhem