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VOLUME 4: NUMBER 11
NOVEMBER 2024
Ivy Gardens & East End Steakhouse both have new owners
like I had to get to warm weather and do a lot of Finally! A lot of people things. I moved out to have been waiting for Los Angeles, and I knew this for a long time in there was something to Little Falls, but the Ivy real estate, and I felt like Garden Apartments and I had to figure it out.” the East End Steakhouse buildings have finally Wright bought a duplex been purchased by the in Hollywood, California. same buyers, who are “From that, I was kind ready to start working on of ‘there is something to them as soon as possible. this,’ so I started buying Photo by Dave Warner - Ivy Garden Apartments at the corner of Garden Street and Ann Street in Little more and more places Falls is under new ownership with plans for refurbishment. Garrett Wright is one of in Florida after spending that there’s more to do can be - we think it will be Falls, they decided to the two new owners. He take the money they’d here. “Small towns where really cool.” grew up in Hoosick Falls, two years in California.” made and invest it in ‘the everybody likes to go to New York, and went to college in Rochester, He said that his parents football games on Friday Wright said that his next thing.’ “We looked at where he met Brennen had a complex that was night and all of that. I love partner, being from the places in Florida because Thompson, who is from in a similar shape to Ivy drama and gossip, so I’m area, would really like we already had some Herkimer and is the other Gardens in Hoosick Falls. here for that. If anyone to do more after this is smaller places down “We completely gutted wants to share it, I’m up finished, and so would he. there and had lived there owner. that and renovated it, for that.” “That’s the vision. This is a couple of years.” the beginning, but doing “We both graduated from investing about $650,000 high school in 2015 and to make it a nice 15-unit He said the bottom line more of these projects is “It was so expensive, and the rent prices is that it has to make what we’re looking at.” graduated from St. John apartment complex.” were pretty similar to financial sense. “To Fisher University in 2019. You grow up and don’t Wright said that Hoosick have the vision to see How did they find Ivy what they are here, so appreciate the place Falls and Little Falls are something go from what Garden? After finishing Brennen and I had this that you’re from, so I felt very much alike, except it currently is to what it the project in Hoosick Please See OWNERS Page 3 By Dave Warner
Salisbury Center. Porter says he was forged in the fires of Western New York and tempered in the cooling waters of the Catskills. “Western New York is blue collar - it’s that toughness. I think that helped to shape who I am. Coming to the Catskills, where it’s a little bit more chill and laid back, that was a nice change and contributed to who I am today.”
shows and musicals, did Shakespeare in the Park for a year, Julies Caesar and more. We also did a radio show podcast called Catskill Cabin Getaway. It was based on Desert Island Discs, which is a show out of the U.K.”
The show is based on the premise that a guest would have to spend a weekend alone on a desert island - what music do they listen to? However, it was an abrupt “We did the music, but change for him. “I didn’t also, what items would have any connections, you take to a cabin in the and it was kind of an Catskills?” uncomfortable move to just leave everything and Photo submitted - Michael David Porter sits with his dog and a copy of his book ‘The Graveyard He said it was just a go out into the Catskills, Relays.’ great way to get to know where I’d never been. It was something I’d heard people and the way they about in like Rip Van think about things. Winkle and stories I’d “Do they prioritize their By Dave Warner have asked throughout He moved into the area heard about when I was necessities, or do they the ages: ‘Are we alone?’ last year and is now a a kid.” take keepsakes or things Michael David Porter has teacher at HFM BOCES Porter taught history that they think would be written his first book, ‘The But, more specifically, are in Johnstown as an out there for years, but fun, and then, of course, Graveyard Relays,’ which we alone as an intelligent instructional coach, was also into theater the music.” deals with one of the great questions people species? and lives off the grid in and acting. “I acted in Please See AUTHOR Page 2
Local author asks ‘Are we alone?’ which spurs his first book
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