commitee meeting and the downtown group who says they keep it all clean  

This is a farce I wonder when this was filmed.  The lower part of State street still needs and work will be done on that to bring it looking like up the hill and that takes time plain and simple but they did improve up on the hill maybe not the way we wanted it with all those tax free businesses which are all food establishments and the frosts me no end but if a visitor came through town you can'd deny it looks a hell of lot better than it ever has.

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This is a farce I wonder when this was filmed.  The lower part of State street still needs and work will be done on that to bring it looking like up the hill and that takes time plain and simple but they did improve up on the hill maybe not the way we wanted it with all those tax free businesses which are all food establishments and the frosts me no end but if a visitor came through town you can'd deny it looks a hell of lot better than it ever has.

Sure if corporate America  is your idea of a beautiful City.

Downtown never looked better than when it was the place for all the small businesses to be.

Now it's a corporate welfare nightmare.

They took every property from the small businesses and gave it to corporations at huge discounts.

Along with massive zero interest loans and grants worth more than the properties.

Too bad the city never felt like investing in small businesses. Downtown used to be a great place to go.

Now it's just for college kids to get drunk.

I agree with the corp greed and crap but for a visitor or someone not familiar with all the corruption going it it does look better than it ever has.

at the moment next year the train station and bus station will be rebuilt again the gateway to the city will look better then it is.  To a visitor they will be exposed to a nice looking area but have no idea about the corruption.

I am saying things are looking nice but as I said before it frosts me to know the truth behind all of it

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I am saying things are looking nice but as I said before it frosts me to know the truth behind all of it

Unless you drive into the neighborhoods.

When someone comes to visit me, I always try to find a way to get places without showing them the ghetto that
the area has become.

It is embarrassing to me to see the extreme poverty caused by the never ending millions being pumped into downtown.

They have taken the prime properties from the people of Schenectady and donated them to corporations.

People want to flee, but their property values would require them to give their homes away.

They are tired of the anti-robin hoods who take from the poor to finance corporate giants.

I mean really, Golub needs public assistance.

Pitiful.

These are the Corporate giants that will be on TV bragging how they did it all themselves.

I would rather have a crappy downtown and beautiful neighborhoods myself.
Anyone see the boarded up house on Wright Avenue? The gateway to Central Park?
What made anyone think that a new downtown, without retail, was vital to a community? How is it that Philip Morris worked his magic on Jamestown, and nothing happened?
I'm not disagreeing with Cel about the appearance, it does look better clean. It should've been clean, at least, all along. Contrary to what the media says all the time, the city is not "cash-strapped". Neither is the school district.

we built bling without foundation

As good as the roadbed under Erie Blvd. So just build on it some more...

Lower State Street needs a bulldozer. The horrible DSIC is doing a great job? Of wasting business "fees" and taxpayer funds. Got tree grates?

Speaking of trees, that new paving process burned up large sections of the leaves on the trees in my neighborhood. I hope the damage isn't permanent.