It will take a "leap of faith" by the first developers and the first in-city home buyers -- but eventually -- it
will succeed. You need to bring a mix of uses into a downtown area ----- retail, office and residential ---
along with a mix of incomes. The residential will eventually attract and keep the markets and other
retailers.
I was kinda thinking about one of those high end condo's that I thought was developed in one of the refurb'ed buildings on lower State. I'd kinda like to look out my window and live in the midst of the "Schenectady Strip". (Again while I like some of what was done downtown - I have massive problems with some of how it was done, like the lunacy of the Proctor's situation, Gillen's lack of accountability on the Big Hose, and property tax exemptions for decades (?) to come.) |
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