They're Like The Best Monopoly Game Player The World Has Ever Had! And They're Right Here In Hudson!

It's a good thing that our pals at Galvan removed their three perfectly good houses on the west side of North Seventh Street a few years ago.  Otherwise, where would they have stored their dumpsters, shipping containers, machinery, lumber and other construction materials needed for their apartment building project happening directly across the street?

Where people once lived, on a once quiet street

Would they have stored their construction crap on their large vacant lot at 4th & Columbia instead?  Nope.  That once welcoming, open and grassy space was recently transformed into a lovely construction storage area for their hotel project one block away at Warren & 4th.  Galvan was wise to never develop that lot with a house or two or an apartment building! It's like they knew they'd need the space for storage so that they could purchase and develop other properties!  

At the rate that the hotel project is progressing, the storage lot won't be available for another two or three years.  Maybe by then the Planning Board will have approved another ill-advised project for Galvan (Helsinki?) that requires lots of open space for their building contractor to store their shit that everyone will have to see day after day.  Of course, once again, Galvan won't let the Planning Board know they're planning on creating yet another off-site eyesore of a storage area that will stick around for years.  Why would they bother?

Years of work still to go on the hotel.

Get used to this sight

Did Galvan get permission to turn their grassy lot at 4th & Columbia into an open-air construction material, machinery and dumpster storage area, destroying much of the grass in the process? No.  Were they required by the city to get permission to do so? No. Should they have been required by the city to do so? Yes, of course!

Thank goodness those three houses on Seventh Street, and all the people who lived in them, aren't in Galvan's way!  It would be a real shame if they were still standing and occupied, wouldn't it be?