Grant Could Help Bring Housing to Shad Point

COBLESKILL — Chacho & Sons Holdings, LLC, a local developer is applying for a county infrastructure grant Empire State Development Grant (ESD) 

Brendon Becker from Lamont Engineering presented to the Cobleskill Town Board at the meeting on January 14, 2025 a proposal is to develop 32 acres of land on Shad Point Road with 60 - 80 Units of residential housing. The owner of the proposed development is Paul Chacho from Chacho & Sons Holdings, LLC. The project is estimated to be around $15 million. 

The Empire State Development Grant (ESD) application is for $1 Million that will be applied for water, sewer and electric to the site.  The infrastructure grant has to be sent to  Shane Nichols, Schoharie County Planning and Community Development, to process the application.  

The Village of Schoharie is also applying for around $350,000 for their infrastructure for this grant as well.