Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that the Village of Maybrook will receive $25.48 million to transform the long-vacant Maybrook Rail Yard into a modern industrial park, part of a broader state initiative to attract manufacturing companies to upstate New York.<\/p>\n
The funding, awarded through the state’s Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York program, will support infrastructure improvements at the site to create the Switchyard Terminal for Economic and Advanced Manufacturing Rail & Business Park. The grant will fund upgrades to roads, water, sewer and drainage systems, resulting in six building-pad sites accessible via the existing Middletown, New Jersey, rail line.<\/p>\n
The Maybrook award was the largest of five grants totaling more than $43 million announced by Hochul under the seventh round of FAST NY funding. The program, administered by Empire State Development, has awarded more than $326 million to 39 sites across upstate New York since its inception.<\/p>\n
“Through FAST NY, we are effectively promoting manufacturing and bringing good-paying jobs to communities across Upstate New York,” Hochul said in a statement. “Leading companies are choosing to come to New York because of our top-tier workforce, and the added attraction of plentiful shovel-ready sites makes our state a destination for world-class businesses seeking to expand their operations here.”<\/p>\n
Located 75 miles from New York City in Orange County, the redeveloped site aims to establish Maybrook as a regional economic hub and attract strategic industries to the area.<\/p>\n
Village of Maybrook Mayor Dennis Leahy said the rail yard has long represented both potential and disappointment for the community.<\/p>\n
“Today, through Governor Hochul’s leadership and the FAST NY program, we take a transformative step forward,” Leahy said.<\/p>\n
The Maybrook Rail Yard operated as a major freight interchange from 1889 until 1974, when a fire destroyed the Poughkeepsie Bridge and severed the rail line. At its peak, the yard featured 177 tracks spanning more than 71 track-miles and served as the western gateway for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.<\/p>\n
After the rail yard closed, Yellow Freight Corp. developed a portion of the property but filed for bankruptcy in 2023. That property was later purchased by R+L Carriers, an Ohio-based trucking company.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes days after the Town of Montgomery Industrial Development Agency approved an application for a film production studio expected to create 800 to 1,200 jobs with average salaries ranging from $100,000 to $145,000.<\/p>\n
Vincent Rouhotas, executive director of the Town of Montgomery Industrial Development Agency, called it “a monumental week for economic development” in the region.<\/p>\n
Hochul secured an additional $100 million in the fiscal 2026 executive budget to expand the FAST NY program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that the Village of Maybrook will receive $25.48 million to transform the long-vacant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35867,35868,35863,8885,9,11,10,779,35865,35866,4941,35862,35864],"class_list":{"0":"post-69286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-circleville","9":"tag-coldenham","10":"tag-maybrook","11":"tag-montgomery","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-orange-county","16":"tag-pine-bush","17":"tag-town-of-wallkill","18":"tag-ulster-county","19":"tag-walden","20":"tag-wallkill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}