By Christine Graf<\/p>\n
Foothill Builders, a family owned residential construction company, is pursuing plans to build 77 townhouses on Ridge Road in Queensbury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The property was the former home of Mead\u2019s Nursery and Garden Center. The garden center closed in 2019 after 70 years in business.<\/p>\n Joe Leuci and his father, Joe, established Foothill Builders in 2013. Since that time, they have built close to 100 homes including two subdivisions in Queensbury and numerous homes in Corinth and Moreau.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Ridge Road property is currently zoned commercial. Leuci and real estate lawyer Jeffrey Meyer recently appeared before the town Planning Board to present a rezoning proposal. During the meeting, town officials raised concerns related to traffic on Quaker Road but were told that main access roads for the townhouses would be on Ridge Road and Meadowbrook Road.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s located in kind of a buffer area between the heavy commercial area on Quaker Road and the neighborhoods on the other side of the property,\u201d said Leuci. \u201cWe view this as a nice transitional project between the commercial and the residential areas and we feel the town understands our concept. No one wants the commercial aspect to be developed there.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span>The 11-acre property is under contract for purchase and is pending approval.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Foothills Builders plans to build 18 four-unit buildings and one five-unit building on the land. Leuci is working with Studio A Landscape Architecture + Engineering of Saratoga Springs and Meyer, Fuller & Stockwell attorneys of Lake George on the project.<\/p>\n \u201cWe met with the Planning Board and still have a ways to go on amending the zoning, but we thought it was a step in the right direction,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Foothill Builders also discussed with town officials their plans to construct 22 apartments and 8,000 square feet of commercial space at 78-80 Main Street. The proposed one- and two-bedroom, high-end apartments will measure between 600 and 900 square feet, and the two-bedroom units will have balconies.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have designed that project around the Main Street zoning and what the town is looking for along that corridor with a mixture of commercial and residential usage. They are trying to promote pedestrian traffic along that corridor. We would have parking in the rear with storefronts on the first floor, closer to the road,\u201d said Leuci. \u201cWe see it as an area that can be developed to kind of connect Glens Falls to Exit 18.\u201d<\/p>\n Because that project requires no zoning changes, Leuci is hopeful the process will move quickly and that his company will receive final approvals this winter. If that happens, they will break ground in the spring, he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the meantime, Foothills Builders is also working on a proposal for another subdivision in Queensbury.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a lot of projects in the pipeline right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The company continues to be impacted by pandemic-related supply chain shortages and is placing material orders as far in advance as possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a constant adjustment over the past year-and-a-half,\u201d said Leuci. \u201cDelays are kind of inevitable at this point, but we are doing our best to stay on track.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Christine Graf Foothill Builders, a family owned residential construction company, is pursuing plans to build 77 townhouses on Ridge Road in Queensbury.\u00a0 The property was the former home of Mead\u2019s Nursery and Garden Center. The garden center closed in 2019 after 70 years in business. Joe Leuci and his father, Joe, established Foothill Builders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n