GOSHEN – With the latest proposal to redevelop the massive former Camp LaGuardia property into a county park, the county legislature has allocated up to $1.5 million to clean up the derelict site.
Once a New York City-owned facility for homeless men located in the towns of Blooming Grove and Chester, the county purchased it years ago and has reviewed and entertained several redevelopment proposals.
Now, with a county park plan on the table, Legislature Chairwoman Katie Bonelli said it must be remediated first.
“Being a facility as large and with all the buildings, it has been sitting there vacant and we have had a lot of vandalism, and for the most part, want to clear some of those buildings; some of them are totally unusable and have to be taken down, and clean up the property,” she said.
County Executive Steven Neuhaus would like to redevelop the site as a park similar to Thomas Bull Memorial Park in Montgomery.
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