Good money after bad.

What a joke. When is Death Ray going to bring his first business from outside the County here? He flushed $100 million on facade improvements, curbing and tree grates. Some on which were pulled out of the ground by "hard working" DSIC employees and recycled at Prendel's. What people forget is that Death Ray already had a plan over there. It was called Robinson's Square Mall. A lower State retail mecca. How did that turn out Gazetto? Death Ray pulled the plug on that one before informing the DEM morons on the Council. These idiots  can't do anything that doesn't result in less City revenues because of never ending tax exemptions. At Bow Tie, at the Hair School and at Bombers. End it.

the cadillac escalade posse

Lower State Street and the Erie Blvd Corridor will be seeing many positive, new developments in the next 2 to 5 years.  The Erie Blvd reconstruction project will be done later this year.  I have no worries about Schenectady's future because the RENAISSANCE has begun ---- and Mr. Gillen is THE major reason why it is happening.  As long as economic development is in his hands, we will be doing  just fine.  Keep up the great work Mr. Gillen.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Lower State Street and the Erie Blvd Corridor will be seeing many positive, new developments in the next 2 to 5 years.  The Erie Blvd reconstruction project will be done later this year.  I have no worries about Schenectady's future because the RENAISSANCE has begun ---- and Mr. Gillen is THE major reason why it is happening.  As long as economic development is in his hands, we will be doing  just fine.  Keep up the great work Mr. Gillen.

Oh, the puppet posts, huh?   He must have just had an orgasm

Or he's going to send an image of the post to the dems in the hope of getting an endorsement for some political job.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Lower State Street and the Erie Blvd Corridor will be seeing many positive, new developments in the next 2 to 5 years.  The Erie Blvd reconstruction project will be done later this year.  I have no worries about Schenectady's future because the RENAISSANCE has begun ---- and Mr. Gillen is THE major reason why it is happening.  As long as economic development is in his hands, we will be doing  just fine.  Keep up the great work Mr. Gillen.

Of course, DV, you wouldn't care to provide any details about how the downtown changes thus far have helped the city, right?

Where is the economic development, DV, they STILL can't even get a dollar store!!!!!    All it is is government gin bills that the homeowners pay the taxes for!

Since plex projects started, the city's tax base has PLUMMETED BIG TIME, and YOU, DV, can't provide even one teeny weeny shred of evidence to prove otherwise.


You say the renaissance has begun?????   Plummeting tax base is a renaissance?   Is it?    Plummeting home values.  Houses sitting for sale for a year with no one willing to buy.  Highest taxes in the country and continuing to rise.   City credit rating reduced.  Inability for the city to get a loan.   Is THAT what a renaissance is?

Of course, the DEM PUPPET IS TOO CHICKEN TO ADDRESS the plummeting tax base, the highest taxes in the country, the plummeting home values, the inability for anyone to sell their homes, etc, right    

Why won't you answer?   Why are you  such a chicken?    Come on, be a man and talk about the plummeting tax base that results from the wild spending of the dems in the city and county and plex.   Be a man and talk about how home prices are spiraling downward in the city while EVERWHERE in the capital region they are increasing.  

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Lower State Street and the Erie Blvd Corridor will be seeing many positive, new developments in the next 2 to 5 years.  The Erie Blvd reconstruction project will be done later this year.  I have no worries about Schenectady's future because the RENAISSANCE has begun ---- and Mr. Gillen is THE major reason why it is happening.  As long as economic development is in his hands, we will be doing  just fine.  Keep up the great work Mr. Gillen.

Come on DV, grow up and BE A MAN, DV, and tell us why YOU REFUSE to move into the city

Of course, NO ONE is holding their breath for an answer because you refuse to comment on how ALL the evidence has proven that the wild spending of taxpayers' money on downtown has caused a DRASTIC REDUCTION in the city's tax base.  

As long as the dems keep spending the taxpayers' money the city's tax base will be in an ever downward spiral, and remember this DV , I have provided the evidence, you NEVER provide one teeny weeny shred of evidence.

It is worth repeating that there is never ONE mention of the high taxes that overburden the taxpayers!! On how these businesses pay little or no taxes or interest on loans! How home values are plumetting. How the residential areas are crumbling. How NO ONE will buy a home in the city!

How many firefighters or police officers live in the city or have a desire to move to it? Where does Mr. Ray Gillen live? Where does Phillip Morris live? What a friggin' joke?

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It is worth repeating that there is never ONE mention of the high taxes that overburden the taxpayers!! On how these businesses pay little or no taxes or interest on loans! How home values are plumetting. How the residential areas are crumbling. How NO ONE will buy a home in the city!

How many firefighters or police officers live in the city or have a desire to move to it? Where does Mr. Ray Gillen live? Where does Phillip Morris live? What a friggin' joke?

Yes Bumble and I would also like to point out the following:

Metroplex paid off AAA to move off of lower State and relocate to another area (Plex also paid their 'relocating expenses')

Metroplex paid off Transfinders to move off Erie and 'relocate' next to Proctors.

Metroplex did nothing when Olenders left, nothing about the 80 yr beauty salon business that is leaving lower State.....

The Plex creates economic havoc in areas so it can go back years later and claim to fix it.

We're not buying your $100 million dollar mess anymore Mr. Gillen....we've had enough.

I would like to point out that it wasn't necessary to have a zillion dollar remodel on Erie Boulevard to do the repaving which should've been done all along. That road was neglected for ages! These jerks jump in to save us from a situation they created by taking our money and then not doing their jobs, and then they get articles planted in the paper praising them for it.
I believe that ALL the traffic signals in the city are in need of synchronization. I think that has been neglected for decades. I also think that some of the lights downtown don't need to be on the same sequence in the evenings. I drove from the Stockade to Nott Terrace one night around 11:00 p.m. and I found myself sitting at several red lights along the way, even though I was the only car at a couple intersections by City Hall. This is what happens when city employees don't live in the city, if it happens after hours, nobody notices.