See how Bellefield at Historic Hyde Park is giving life to ideas nearly 20 years in the making – Hotel to open in November 2023.
HYDE PARK, N.Y. – Stately historic sites and large expanses of meadow still pervade much of this old river town, but Hyde Park also has its less elegant corners, like a main business district along Route 9, which is, at best, an architectural jumble.
Tourists have long flocked here, mostly to visit the homes that belonged to the Roosevelt and Vanderbilt families and the 170-acre Culinary Institute of America. Still, Hyde Park has no large destination stores or even a large hotel. Instead, the main commercial district is filled mostly with sleepy strip centers, modest roadside motels, a few antiques stores and local landmarks like the old Hyde Park Drive-In, which is still in use.
Local officials like Pompey Delafield, the town supervisor, say they want to preserve Hyde Park’s small-town feel and cultivate more homegrown businesses. But they also want to strengthen the appeal to tourists and create a strong community center in a town where unfocused development has reigned for years.
