Klugo 5-Apartment ‘Dream Project’ Complete By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – He’s called it a “dream project.” Now, Chip Klugo’s dream has come true. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, Klugo cut the ribbon on the five-apartment building next to the former Bresee’s (now Parkview Apartments). The redone building includes first-floor retail space, occupied by Island Premium Printing. “The building was offered to me while I was doing the Bresee’s project in 2013,” he said. “We couldn’t make the…
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KLUGO, ROUND 2 Entrepeneur Adding 5 Apartments In Former Stevens, Next To Bresee’s By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Third time’s the charm. “I fell in love with the Stevens (Hardware) building,” said Chip Klugo, who redeveloped Bresee’s Department Store, opening his Parkview Place apartments there in 2014. “We stayed on it and we didn’t give up.” It was the next year, 2015, nearly four years ago, that he set out to redevelop the…
Klugo Renews Interest In Stevens Hardware 5 Apartments May Be Considered There ONEONTA – Bresee’s savior Chip Klugo it at it again. Common Council Tuesday evening will consider seeking a Restore NY grant to redo the former Stevens Hardware Store to the west of the former department store, according to the agenda for the meeting released this afternoon. The money “would be used to partially offset costs of rehabilitating an abandoned building at 151-153 Main St. as planned by Klugo…
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…
Klugo’s Parkview Place Wins 2014 NY Preservation Award ONEONTA – Chip Klugo’s Parkview Place is one of seven “distinctive historic preservation projects” that received New York State 2014 Preservation Awards in Albany this afternoon. The awards were presented in the award-winning Academy Lofts in Albany, an abandoned school that has been transformed into a living and work space for artists as well as a community arts center and business incubator for creative enterprises. The citation praised Klugo and his architectural form, Johnson-Schmidt…