My recent activities
- Hudson River Park Trust — Oversee implementation of Army Corps, NYS DEC, NYS DOS and SHPO permit conditions including NYC agency expediting for NYS agency for construction of major NYC waterfront park.
- NY Water Taxi – Obtain permits as needed for in-water work for Schaefer Landing, Fulton Ferry, Pier 10, Riverside South, Brooklyn Homeport, and Yonkers Homeport sites. Obtain zoning determinations and approvals as needed. Develop water transportation master plan policy document.
- Amsterdam Park – Assist Town of New Castle with programming and environmental review of gifted real estate for a controversial community recreation use.
- South Brother Island – Zoning analysis to support disposition of NYC’s last remaining major island.
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Selected Career Projects to Date
Spins Hudson Amusement Center & Factoria Event Space and Restaurants
Projects
Spins Hudson Amusement Center & Factoria Event Space and Restaurants Peekskill, New York When the Kraft / Standard Brands facility Peekskill was well-known for closed in 1980 (Fleischmann’s products) one of the [...]
Gateway Townhomes
Projects
Gateway Townhomes Peekskill, New York On its western flank the City of Peekskill’s downtown area had seen more active days. In earlier times the downtown area connected to the northern waterfront area, [...]
Wilder / Balter Main Street Apartments
Projects
Wilder / Balter Main Street Apartments Peekskill, New York After construction of the Gateway Townhomes was complete, the owner of a nearby large site that had been vacant since the demise of [...]
Trinity Associates Senior Housing
Projects
Trinity Associates Senior Housing After completing two senior developments in Peekskill – Drum Hill and RiverPoint at Drum Hill –Trinity Associates, LLC wished to pursue another senior development in Peekskill. Trinity Associates, LLC [...]
One Park Place, Mixed Use Residential
Projects
One Park Place, Mixed Use Residential Alma Realty is a New York City-based landlord and real estate developer founded in 1988 by Efstathios Valiotis, one the world’s wealthiest developers. Alma is a [...]
Parsons Estate Disposition
Projects
Parsons Estate Disposition, City of Rye In the early 1990s the City of Rye was gifted with an estate along the Boston Post Road (US Route 1). The property included a principal structure in [...]
Continental View Residences
Projects
Continental View Residential Project Mamaroneck, New York Continental View was a controversial affordable residential project situated on Guion Creek in the Town of Rye portion of the Village of Mamaroneck. Town of Rye property [...]
The Regatta Mixed Use Project
Projects
The Regatta Residential Project Mamaroneck, New York The Regatta is located on Mamaroneck Avenue near the Boston Post Road (Route 1) and the Village harbor on Long Island Sound. The project site backed onto [...]
Metro-North Third Track Expansion
Projects
Metro North’s Third Track Program Bronxville, New York Metro North’s Harlem line south of North White Plains operates with headways similar to the NYC subway system. Until recently the entire line was served by [...]
Cortlandt Self Storage
Projects
Cortlandt Self Storage Concurrent with the approval of the Cortlandt Town Center in the early 1990’s, a great deal of interest had been given to self storage as a principal land use. This use, [...]
Cortlandt Town Center
Projects
Cortlandt Town Center, Town of Cortlandt In the early 1990’s retailing options for residents of northern Westchester were limited. The area, especially the northwestern towns of Cortlandt and Yorktown were growing rapidly, as were [...]
Riverbend Residential Development
Projects
Riverbend Residential Development The first of several projects in the City of Peekskill, Riverbend was an ingenious approach to reusing former institutional lands while allowing the institutional user to remain and grow. The Sisters [...]
Bronx CB#5 197a Plan Study
Projects
Bronx CB#5 197a Plan Study Bronx CB #5 197-a Plan Background Report In the early 2000s Community Board No. 5 in NYC’s borough of the Bronx and NYC’s Department of City Planning had prepared [...]
White Plains Linen Commercial Laundry Operation
Projects
White Plains Linen Commercial Laundry Operation & Redevelopment Mr. Lynch oversaw the preparation of environmental and planning documentation for several major industrial development and redevelopment projects in the City of Peekskill including 9 Corporate [...]
Karta Recycling Facility
Projects
Karta Recycling Facility Mr. Lynch oversaw the preparation of environmental and planning documentation for several major industrial development and redevelopment projects in the City of Peekskill including 9 Corporate Drive, Karta Recycling and White [...]
9 Corporate Drive Remediation
Projects
9 Corporate Drive Remediation & Industrial Development, City of Peekskill Mr. Lynch oversaw the preparation of environmental and planning documentation for several major industrial development and redevelopment projects in the City of Peekskill including [...]
Economic and Downtown Development
Projects
Economic and Downtown Development As part of his planning responsibilities Mr. Lynch often advocates for sound planning, works closely with outside agencies to meet time and budgetary commitments and secure financing, and provide design [...]
River Pointe at Drum Hill
Projects
River Pointe at Drum Hill Senior Residences Peekskill, New York Drum Hill is a former Peekskill middles and high school that was developed into an assisted living facility in the 1990’s. In 2004 the [...]
Holiday Inn & Inn on the Hudson
Projects
Holiday Inn Holiday Inn Express and Suites Mr. Lynch prepared zoning text to facilitate the development of this facility on a vacant brownfield site in one of the City of Peekskill’s planned industrial areas. [...]
Fort Hill Apartments / Fort Hill Inn and Spa
Projects
Abbey at Fort Hill Residential Re-development, City of Peekskill After completing two major developments in Peekskill – Chapel Hill and Riverbend – the Ginsburg Development Companies LLC wished to pursue development of another community [...]
Large-Scale Urban Development
Projects
Large-Scale Development / Major Urban Projects Mr. Lynch oversaw the preparation of all environmental documentation for the Waterfront at Port Chester, a comprehensive waterfront and downtown revitalization project recently completed in the Village of [...]
City of Peekskill Central Firehouse
Projects
City of Peekskill Central Firehouse The City of Peekskill decided to address long-standing problems with its Fire Department facilities by centralizing the operations of five of the City’s six fire companies in one newlyconstructed [...]