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From Susan Barden <Susan.Barden@saratoga-springs.org>
Date Thu 1/29/2026 4:13 PM
To Mark Graham <Mark.Graham@saratoga-springs.org>
Please add following message to 53 Putnam St. Thanks
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Subject: RE: 53 Putnam Street 20251075
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TO: Susan Barden
We appreciate your consideration of our request, and your support, and the Board’s support of our
housing plans for at least 32 affordable condominiums at 53 Putnam Street. We are approaching the
culmination of our efforts, and the Board’s support has been instrumental to us. Being in synch with the
Board’s and the community’s needs gives us confidence as we enter the final stages of development
and planning.
Gratefully,
Gordon Boyd
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Subject: 53 Putnam Street 20251075
TO: Mark Pingle, Chair, Saratoga Springs Planning Board
Susan Barden, City Planner
FROM: Gordon Boyd, co-managing partner
Putnam Resources, LLC
DATE: January 29, 2026
SUBJECT: 53 Putnam Street, 20251075
I am the Co-Managing Member of Putnam Resources LLC, the applicant for a pending
application for the creation of an interim use, a park, on the property located at 53 Putnam
Street.
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As you are aware, the Planning Board has approved Putnam Resources LLC for construction of
32 units of workforce housing on the site as well as first floor retail space.
As you are further aware, after completing a twelve year extended application process with the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Brownfield Remediation Program
for the site, Putnam Resources has been awarded a Certificate of Completion from the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Putnam Resources is in the final stages of completing construction and financing arrangements
with Vecino Group in Troy, New York, and Bast Hatfield Construction in Malta, New York for
construction of a building on the site in conformance with our existing site plan and DEC
approvals.
We have serious concerns that must be addressed prior to the Planning Board giving further
consideration to the pending interim use application to build a park.
We received a letter from our environmental engineers this morning, indicating that a further
application to DEC, amending our existing approvals, would be necessary in order to proceed
with the interim park concept. A copy of that letter is attached.
As Co-Manager I can advise you that Putnam Resources LLC would not approve any
application that would alter the existing DEC approvals which has taken us over ten years and
millions of dollars in investment to secure.
Moreover, were the Board to proceed with consideration of the interim park application, we
would be concerned that the future of the approved housing use would be compromised, in the
absence of written assurances that such an application would not alter, amend, suspend or
otherwise diminish the existing site plan approvals. If this were to be the case, Putnam
Resources would likewise not authorize this application.
Until both the DEC and site plan approvals, as expressed in this letter, are resolved, the Board
should take no action on the interim park proposal.
In closing, I commend my Co Manger’s efforts to beautify the property and make it available for
enjoyment by the community, while we are finalizing arrangements to complete the original
mission and goals we set out on back in 2013. However, of paramount importance is that our
existing DEC and Planning Board approvals are not disturbed.
Thank you
Gordon Boyd
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects.” --
Aristotle
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