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Tech City Gets Off the Grid

The conversion of an industrial complex into an eco-village is under way.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on May 29, 2009

KINGSTON, NY-Anyone familiar with the history of the fields in and around Woodstock, NY, shouldn’t be surprised that environmentally friendly development is encouraged. But what may be surprising is the origin of TechCity, a new “green” project that will redevelop an IBM industrial facility into an eco-village, says developer Alan Ginsberg.

Currently a 2.5 million-square-foot industrial facility dating from the 1950s and closed by IBM in the early 1990s, TechCity will be located on 260 acres in Kingston, NY, in the midst of a growing high-tech area in the Hudson Valley. The site also is next door to the fabled Woodstock area–though contrary to popular belief, the 1969 concert took place not in Woodstock, but in neighboring Bethel, NY. Most important will be a number of energy-efficient technologies and economically sensitive development philosophies that its development team says can serve as models for other redevelopments around the country.

“We have one big property, and we need to make it into several parcels and drive it with renewable energy,” says Ginsberg, owner and chairman of TechCity Properties. “I want to be off the grid.”

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