Klugo Seeks To Redevelop

Former Stevens Hardware

ONEONTA – Representatives of Chip Klugo, who saved the Bresee’s building, converting it to the high-end Klugo’s Parkview Place, will be before Common Council tonight, seeking to take his vision to the next level.

The developer’s architect, Elise Johnson-Schmidt, and her associate, David Anderson, were en route from Corning this afternoon to asked Council members to endorse their application to redevelop the former Stevens Hardware, next to Bresee’s, into apartments on the upper floors and, perhaps, a market on the ground floor.

The architect is submitting a Common Funding Application (CFA) by month’s end to the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council to help make the project possible.

Stevens Hardware was the business of longest tenure in the downtown when its third-generation owner, John O. Stevens, passed away in November 2012.  The business closed soon afterwards, and the building has been on the market since.