Since the last time I checked, contractors on Albany’s ambitious Waterfront Project had made progress on rebuilding the west end of Water Avenue with reddish brick pavers.
Returning to Albany after a few days away, I wondered how far the city’s contractor had gotten with the Water Avenue “plaza street,” the last key element of the Albany Revitalization Agency’s $21.5 million Waterfront Project.
When the contractor on Albany’s Waterfront Project started building the new “plaza street” on April 14, the city expected the closure of that section of Water Avenue to end in mid-June. The work has taken longer than that.
The contractor building the “plaza street” part of Albany’s Waterfront Project still hopes to finish the first two blocks in time for the first of this summer’s “River Rhythms” concerts in Monteith Riverpark. That’s the word from City Hall.
Contractors have been working on Albany’s new “plaza street” at the west end of Water Avenue while the CARA urban renewal program is preparing for what may be its final budget.
Bike rides take me past the west end of Water Avenue in Albany several times a week. So I see the transformation of this former industrial street into the “plaza street” envisioned by the city’s Waterfront Project.
Waterfront progress: An intersection reopened
On a Friday evening bike ride along parts of Water Avenue, I noticed another little milestone in the long-running Albany Waterfront Project: The intersection of Water and Broadalbin Street has been rebuilt, repaved and now reopened to traffic.
Tags: Broadalbin Street, Water Avenue, Waterfront Project