NEW WINDSOR, NY-US Senator Charles Schumer reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will relocate its Hudson Valley regional office to a new building to be built at Stewart International Airport here.

The FBI currently operates a counter-terrorism unit and the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task force from leased office space in Goshen, according to the Middletown Times-Herald Record.

“Anytime community safety, economic development and jobs go hand-in-hand, that's a win for everyone involved—and that's exactly what this new FBI facility will mean for New Windsor, the City of Newburgh and all of Orange County,” Schumer says. “Law enforcement in the City of Newburgh will now be better aided by the federal resources of the FBI, which has already been very prominent in curbing gang-related violence in the area. I applaud the decision to move the new regional office to New Windsor, so that the FBI can establish a stronger presence where it's needed the most and expand its service to include all of Orange, Sullivan, Dutchess, and Rockland Counties.”

The FBI expects to break ground on the project in early 2014 and be operational by December 2014. The new building would double the leased space it currently occupies in Goshen. See story in the Middletown Times-Herald Record.