New warehouse proposed for South Street

Posted 1/19/22

National Builders South, a development company, presented a new warehouse property located on 700 South Street to the City of Newburgh Transportation Advisory Committee. This presentation took place …

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New warehouse proposed for South Street

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National Builders South, a development company, presented a new warehouse property located on 700 South Street to the City of Newburgh Transportation Advisory Committee. This presentation took place during the committee’s regular meeting on Thursday, January 13.

Committee co-chairs Gabriel Berlin along with Naomi Hersson-Ringskog introduced Charles Bazydlo of National Builders South, Walter Kubow of Chazen Companies and Brian Sekel also of National Builders South.

The proposed site was the former DuPont-Stauffer Landfill site. The site is currently owned by Atkemix Thirty-Seven Inc, which falls under Zeneca, Inc., a pharmaceutical company.

Only 29 of the estimated 49 acres would be used due to a previous remediation that had occurred at the site, according to Bazydlo.

“What we’re proposing is a warehouse facility, about 416,000 square foot building, 5000 of that would be a office within the warehouse facility itself,” Bazydlo said.

Truck access would be available at South Street, the employees’ access road would come by Pierces Road and 154 parking spaces would be available for employee parking.

For the transportation committee, Bazydlo provided a brief overview of the traffic impact on the City of Newburgh with the proposed site.

“We’re predicting about eight trucks per hour, during the morning peak time, which we believe is between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. and about 12 trucks per hour in the p.m. peak time from 4 to 6 p.m.,” Bazydlo said. “We do not have a tenant specified yet. We are in the process of looking for one.”

Kubow then took over from Bazydlo to discuss more development and repairs to the current proposed site for commuters and city residents.

“The site is on the north side of South St. The entire length of sidewalk along South St. on that side is pretty old and pretty beat up and we’ve been asked through the city engineer’s office to replace that sidewalk,” Kubow said. “In addition, the truck entrance we’ve been asked to make sure that the sidewalk continues across the entrance so that the pedestrian is always in the right of way.”

Kubow also stated that the applicant was asked to plan for a new sidewalk going up Pierces Rd. to anticipate local employees walking or riding their bicycles to work. The city engineer also asked the applicant to create sidewalks at the intersection of South St. and Pierces Rd.

Hersson-Ringskog asked the applicants if there would be a possibility of construction of electrical vehicle charging stations. “There probably will be one or two,” Sekel said.

Hersson-Ringskog also asked the applicants what kind of potential tenants would occupy the space.

Applicant’s can range from a manufacturer to a third party logistics company, according to Sekel. “We’re talking to everybody who’s in the market. We’re not going to rule out anybody,” Sekel said.

Berlin followed up Hersson-Ringskog’s comments by thanking the applicants for being considerate of the Newburgh residents who are making the site accessible to non-vehicle owners and bike commuters.

Other comments were made about adding more trees to the property and consideration for solar energy stations to which the applicants would take into consideration.