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April
We are pleased to announce that David Cooper, Partner at Z&S, has helped our client, Tredway, successfully close on the IDA financing and preservation of Peekskill Plaza Apartments, a 168-unit affordable senior housing community located in the heart of downtown Peekskill. This $33.7 million transaction included securing a 40-year PILOT agreement through the Peekskill Industrial...
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April
In 2024, New York State amended the Freshwater Wetlands Act (Article 24 of the Environmental Conservation Law) to significantly expand the State’s regulation and protection of wetlands. Thereafter, the Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) adopted regulations to implement those statutory amendments (the “Amendments”). These major statutory Amendments took effect on January 1, 2025 and have...
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April
Attorney Dan Richmond defeated an Article 78 challenge to zoning map and text amendments adopted by New York City City Council that will allow for the development a major mixed use project on Empire Boulevard in Brooklyn.  The Petition alleged a variety of deficiencies in the SEQRA review of the project and also included a...

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Zarin & Steinmetz congratulates and celebrates their client Asahi Shuzo on the grand opening of their state of the art, 55,000 s.f. “Dassai Blue Sake Brewery ” in the Town of Hyde Park this past weekend. Michael Zarin and Kate (Roberts) Feinman have been working with Asahi Shuzo for the past five years to secure Town and other governmental approvals, financial benefits from the Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency, and funding from the Empire State Development Corporation through the New York Excelsior Jobs Program. Asahi Shuzo was established in 1948 in southern Japan, and the Hyde Park location represents their second brewery, the first of its kind in the United States. This weekend, Asahi Shuzo opened the doors of the $80 Million Dassai Blue Sake Brewery in the Town for its grand opening celebration. The Brewery will also be receiving recognition and an award at the upcoming Hyde Park Visual Environmental Committee awards presentation.

Dassai Blue Sake Brewery will be open for public visits on Thursdays and Fridays from 1-4pm beginning in mid-October through the company’s website. Members of the public will be able to schedule tours of the facility to learn about the sake distilling and brewing process (including the rice polishing and water treatment process), and taste and purchase their premium product.

 

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