City of Peekskill | Official Website (http://www.ci.peekskill.ny.us/subpageM.cfm?subPageID=14&mainPageID=2 - broken link)
Downtown Artist's District and Art Lofts:
To help revitalize its downtown, the City created a special Artist District in order to develop live-work spaces on the second floors of commercial buildings in the downtown. A special development process is required to create new artist lofts.
To obtain one of these artist lofts for living and working, the City's Artist Certification Committee must certify an individual as an artist, defined as:
"An individual who practices one of the fine, design, graphic, musical,
literary, computer or performing arts; or an individual whose profession relies on the application of the above-mentioned skills to produce creative product; i.e. architect, craftsperson, photographer, etc.
The City, using a variety of grants, created an affordable cooperative loft project that was opened in 2002 and provides 28 new live-work spaces.
For additional artist loft information, please contact
Jean Friedman at (914) 734-4210 or the
Peekskill Arts Council at
www.peekskillartscouncil.org and the
Chamber of Commerce. The
Artist Certification Application and
Instructions is explained in this linkage.
Click Here for Artist Certification Application Forms.
Hope that helps. I've found that most of the city's staff is very nice/helpful if you call them with questions, good luck.
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