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RUPCO announces funding to restore Kingston’s Pike Plan Rural Ulster Preservation Company held a media conference on Thursday, August 3, 2006, at 1pm, under the Pike Plan in front of 300 Wall Street, Kingston. The media conference was to announce that RUPCO has received a grant awarded of $200,000 from New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal Main Street Program, for façade restoration of the Pike Plan along Wall and N. Front Streets in Kingston. The $200,000 funding award completed a $700,000 program to restore the Pike Plan. Congressman Maurice Hinchey, Kingston Mayor James Sottile, Carter Hastings, Chair, Kingston Pike Plan Committee, Jennifer Ringwood, Kingston Second Ward Alderman and members of the uptown business community will joined RUPCO for this announcement. The Pike Plan was designed in 1976, by Woodstock architect John Pike. The Pike Plan is comprised of the signature white porticos, installed along Wall and N. Front Streets, in the Stockade District of Kingston. The porches were designed to create an outdoor urban mall of covered walkways for Kingston’s business district. The Pike Plan continues to support foot traffic and compliments the historic nature of the uptown business district. The façade restoration program will fund repairs and renovations to the Pike Plan itself. The scope of work will include the installation of new skylights to increase natural lighting, roof replacement, repair and replacement of boxed gutters, relocation of downspouts, repair and replacement of soffits, facias, headers, columns and roofing rails, new electrical installations and lighting, installing concrete bases at all column locations and painting. The Pike Plan is comprised of 59 sections and all 59 facades will be assisted. Kevin O’Connor, Executive Director of RUCPO states, “The repair of the Pike Plan is in concert with the revitalization of uptown Kingston and the renewed energy and marketing plans of the Kingston Uptown Business Association (KUBA). This funding will allow us to preserve this important element in Kingston’s history.” |
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