Eleven years after it got involved with the former Labor Temple on Third Avenue, the Albany City Council this week ended the city’s role by voting to sell the building.
You might call this ‘CARA Corner’
Written August 27th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
On a stroll in downtown Albany the other evening, the buildings on this corner caught my eye. They show off the efforts of downtown owners to upgrade their buildings with the help of urban renewal.
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Tags: Albany urban renewal, CARA, Ellsworth and Second, Novak's, Sprinkles
Tags: Albany urban renewal, CARA, Ellsworth and Second, Novak's, Sprinkles
CARA update: Hoping for completion
Written August 15th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Albany’s downtown renewal board may now be on its way to setting priorities for completing its mission. That’s the vague but hopeful main news from Wednesday’s monthly session of the CARA advisory board.
CARA and ABC: Request for siding aid
Written August 12th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
CARA is being asked to give $10,000 to another downtown Albany building venture, but the push for major projects to complete and then wind up the 17-year-old urban renewal program seems to remain stalled.
A different idea for a vacant store
Written June 28th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Whether anything comes of this is uncertain, but Albany’s downtown urban development board last week heard about an idea for turning a vacant store into shared office space and a couple of meeting rooms.
Let CARA think big and then quit
Written June 20th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Now that the downtown streetscape project is winding down, Albany’s urban renewal agency will have to decide what to do next. One potential idea: Put on a push to improve the neighborhood east of Lyon Street by rebuilding the streets and upgrading the houses that need it.
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Albany downtown: The riverfront next?
So what comes next for CARA, the central Albany urban renewal district? Mayor Sharon Konopa has an idea, and she mentioned it Saturday at the completion ceremony of the city’s two-year downtown streetscape project.
Tags: Albany urban renewal, CARA, riverfront, streetscape project, Water Avenue