BLUE SKY Home + Property LLC
Formed in 2020, Blue Sky Property LLC is a Hudson-based social entrepreneurship, its mission to preserve and develop historic properties as income-generating assets that are regenerative and self-sustaining. We capitalize on a site’s commercial, environmental, and cultural potential for ‘purpose over profit’ to preserve historic buildings, working farms, and the natural environment to revitalize communities and to safeguard our future.
Bio: Catherine Mikic, Owner-Steward
CATHERINE MIKIC (Pratt Institute, Bach. Arch.) is owner-steward of the Sweet-Sherman Homestead. She brings more than three decades of high-end architecture and design experience in New York City with expertise in the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of historic properties, and multi-disciplinary collaboration. She is also an experienced institutional fundraiser and grant writer for the nonprofit sector. Catherine currently serves as Chair of the Town of Copake’s Historic Preservation Committee (2021-2024) and is an appointed member to Copake’s Comprehensive Plan Review Committee (2024-2026).
Project Consultants
Marilyn Kaplan, Principal, Preservation Architecture
Connor Stedman, Appleseed Permaculture, farm master plan
Shanti Nagel, Principal, DesignWild, native landscape
Ruth Piwonka, Historian Emeritus (deceased)
Project Advisors
Brian Zweig, Business Advisor, through the Incubator Without Walls program at Hudson Valley Agribusiness Development Corporation
Edward Elinski, Retired Partner, Mascaro Construction
Scott O-Rourke, Deep Roots Farm NY, Local Farmer Partner
