RUPCO bought the defunct bowling alley in May and has applied for $ 20 million of a $ 1.5 billion pot of state money
targeted for
upstate revitalization to fund the project; the nonprofit is applying for the money through the Mid-Hudson
Region's Consolidation Funding Application, which is due at the end of July.
Ruffalo, who lives near the Delaware River in the
upstate New York
region that was
targeted for shale gas drilling, is one of many prominent public figures who pressed Cuomo long and hard to ban hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking.