The saga of 300 West First Avenue in Albany continues. That’s where years ago the First National Bank and later Wells Fargo had its downtown branch.
On a bike ride through downtown Albany in mid-April, I stopped on the former Wells Fargo Bank property, wondering what happened to the plan for redevelopment of the site. Members of the city council are wondering too.
Two buildings containing eight three-story townhouses are under construction in the 200 block of Southeast Third Avenue, the latest project by the Lepman organization to increase housing in and near Albany’s downtown.
At 113 years of age, the two-story structure housing the Wood Apartments in the 200 block of Southeast Third Avenue may be among Albany’s oldest apartment buildings. Now the facade is getting structural repairs.
If you’ve wandered around downtown Albany, as I was last week, you may have noticed that things are happening with the old city hall at Second Avenue and Broadalbin Street.
Scott Lepman doesn’t have an estimate of how long it will take to refurbish the old St. Francis Hotel at Ferry Street and First Avenue in downtown Albany. But he, his brother Spencer and their construction crew are about to start.
St. Francis shows off its tall old windows
The tall windows of the ground floor lobby of the historic St. Francis Hotel in Albany have been restored, or opened up, to their full height.
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