PEEKSKILL IDA GROUNDBREAKING - Westfair Communications

Photos courtesy of the city of Peekskill and Unicorn Contracting Corp.

The city of Peekskill Industrial Development Agency (PIDA) held a groundbreaking ceremony at 216 S. Division St. on Thursday, July 8. The groundbreaking was for a mixed-use residential and commercial site; one of the many new projects in Peekskill as part of its transformation and downtown revitalization.

Mayor of Peekskill Andre Rainey, said “The addition of this project will provide quality housing our residents deserve, much-needed retail space for our ever-growing entrepreneurial community and this will expand our commercial tax base”¦.”

A site of a once-dilapidated building, the proposed 27,000-square-foot three-story building will have 22 market-rate apartments, 2,000 square feet of retail/commercial space on the ground level and a parking garage underneath the building.

For more information, contact Matthew Rudikoff, PIDA executive director, at 914-734-4215 or email mrudikoff@cityofpeekskill.com.