And The Award For This Month's Most Attractive and Most Well Maintained Vacant House Goes To....

The Galvan Initiatives Fund, owners of the lovely single family residence at 59 Short Street!!!!  Congratulations Galvan people -- you deserve this month's award, even if it was a long time coming!  

You can see the many efforts that the tireless people at Galvan have made recently to get this house occupied as soon as possible and no longer the eyesore that it has been for the past ten years or more.  We at the Hudson Housing Board can think of no other property owner who cares as deeply and passionately about the Hudson community by ensuring that long-neglected properties are tended to properly and made respectable and habitable.  We all know that this is part of Galvan's mission, and they are proving it once again, this time on Short Street.

 It is with great gratitude and honor that the HHB, on behalf of every Hudson resident, presents this plaque of distinction to all the wonderful, hard-working, dedicated folks at Galvan, especially Dan Kent and Eric Galloway, in our appreciation of their efforts to make Hudson a better, more livable and beautiful city.  Without organizations like Galvan, the house at 59 Short Street may still be a rotting, neglected, vacant, gutted, weed-infested, ugly mess of a structure and property that served no benefit to the neighborhood or, indeed, to the entire city.  We are so proud and fortunate that Galvan purchased this house and worked their magic on it.   

Here you are, Dan and Eric, feel free to proudly attach your new plaque of distinction to your beautiful house at 59 Short Street.  Display it proudly, and please keep up your great work!

The Galvan Initiatives Fund purchased 59 Short Street from Phil Gellert in December of 2014 for $102,000.  It was most recently assessed for $125,000.  It is not a tax-exempt property.

Galvan's long-gutted and vacant eyesore. 
Who is their landscaper?

Do you think that if someone else besides Galvan had purchased 59 Short Street 9 years ago, someone with an interest in making it livable, that there might actually be people (either renters or owners) living there in a decent-looking, respectable and safe structure and property?  Why did Galvan purchase 59 Short Street and what is their plan for it?  Have they ever had a plan for it?  Have they forgotten they own it?  Does Hudson City Hall even care what it looks like or what Galvan does or doesn't do with it?

Galvan's property at 59 Short Street is on the current list of vacant properties kept by our Hudson Code Enforcement.  As if that meant anything.