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The Troy college recently signeda 10-yeaer lease with 400 Jordan Road LLC. The school will pay approximatelt $605,000 a year to lease 36,557 square feet of Hudson Valley’s popular paramedic program will occupy about half of the new The school also will move its respirator y care program and a that trains employeeas forarea businesses, according to Stephen Cowan, director of the college’w physical plant. The remainder of the leased spacer willhouse ’s Next Step a communications worker training program coordinated by the college.
Thoss departments all currently are located inHudson Valley’s 90,000-square-foot Hy Rosenblum Administration Center, a 1940s era building that Cowan said need major renovations. “It’s a tired old We are looking at total renovationdsor demolition,” he said. But the college decided to leased space from the through 400 Jordan Road LLC for 10 years while the college decides whethefr it should overhaul or tear down the HyRosenblum building. The collegd continues to grow, but because of the econom y it does not have the money to renovatee the current buildingright now, Cowan said.
Hudso Valley is planning to hire a consulting firm this summer to help officials decide the most cost effectives way to deal with the Rosenblum helped Hudson Valley negotiatedthe lease. The college plans to have the four programe and departments moved into the new spac in North Greenbush before the start of classeson Aug. 31. The buildinbg previously had been used as offics space forVerizon workers, Cowa said.