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mcral 363 days ago

This is a must!

alex 358 days ago

While I generally support this, I would hate to see all the historic industrial properties along the riverfront razed (shovel-ready?) especially without a specific (and funded!) plan for something worthwhile to replace them. While it may not always be practical, we should make all reasonable efforts to reuse historic structures where possible.

There's a very interesting booklet - "Industrial Archaeology in Troy, Waterford, Cohoes, Green Island and Watervliet" that I picked up a few weeks ago for $5 at Market Block Books - written in 1973, this is the second printing from 1983, and even then many of these structures had been lost, surely many others have also gone in the following 25 years. Others, like the Harmony Mills in Cohoes, have been successfully re-adapted for current uses. I would hope that we could preserve some of the historic structures along the South Troy waterfront as part of the recovery and re-development of that area.

tvan22 250 days ago

The Upper Hudson Research Center was announced this week for part of this area. It also includes a number of bikeways and walkways as well as an amphitheater, gardens and boat accommodations:

http://www.thebeaconinstitute.org/institute/UHRC_Announcement.php

Sounds like someone was thinking like you inspiredbydesign!

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