The Village of Cobleskill wants your ideas on how to spend $10 million.
Those ideas and more will be the topic of a meeting next Thursday, the 27th, 5pm at SUNY Cobleskill’s Bouck Theater. It’s open to the public.
Cobleskill will be applying for a $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant––and maybe a $2.5 million New York Forward grant––and public input is part of the process.
Brendon Becker of Lamont Engineers is helping the village, and he’ll be one of several running the meeting.
The thrust is to improve downtown for business, job creation, families and quality of life.
Cobleskill Mayor Becky Terk and others have come up with ideas–improvements at Iorio Park, for example––but so far, they’re just proposals, Mr. Becker said.
“We’ll present them and also have a survey online,” he added. “But we want input on what people would like to see.”
There will also be a session on what’s eligible and what’s not for a DRI grant.
Although the state would provide the funds if Cobleskill is successful in getting the grant, there also must be “a commitment of private funds,” Mr. Becker said.
A committee recently set the boundaries for the target area, Mr. Becker said: From the railroad bridge at the west end to the Main Street-North Grand intersection; south to the Fairgrounds and north to Cobleskill Regional Hospital.