MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.—The New York Supreme Court denied an Amazon warehouse project an $80 million property tax break, ruling against the Orange County Industrial Development Agency.
State Sen. James Skoufis announced on July 1 that the Supreme Court had sided with the development agency’s state-appointed monitor in a dispute with the agency.
In November 2025, the state monitor, Brian Sanvidge, vetoed a development agency-approved 15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes program for a planned Amazon distribution center in the town of Wawayanda, near the city of Middletown. The agency challenged the monitor’s veto in December.
The reason Sanvidge provided for vetoing the proposal was that Amazon and the development agency had failed to answer his questions adequately, and eventually stopped communicating with him altogether….