Hoboken Library Resilient Rehab — Project Executive

Allen Kratz’s experience:

• served as the Library’s chief executive overseeing a $3.1 M rehabilitation and dry floodproofing of the City’s 1897 National Register, flood-damaged library

• researched and wrote National Register of Historic Places nomination to qualify Library for historic preservation funds

• secured 2/3 of the construction budget from four levels of government:

   $    433,439  National Park Service post-Sandy flood prevention for historic buildings

        750,000  New Jersey Department of Community Affairs -- Historic Trust

        750,000  Hoboken municipal match

        124,000  Hudson County open space tax for rainwater detention garden

  $ 2,057,439

• resolved a mid-construction water intrusion issue in consultation with experts from the New York Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery and New Orleans

• integrated the library’s flood-proofing rehabilitation into the City of Hoboken’s Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge flood-risk reduction program

One of several posters on display at Hoboken Public Library

More descriptions are on display at Hoboken Public Library

Rain garden nearing completion