Lower State Street getting a new look
April 30, 2013

Long shabby lower State Street, a major entrance to downtown Schenectady, is proposed for a $1.7 million face-lift courtesy of Metroplex, the development authority funded by your tax dollars.

Several years ago here, I wrote a couple times suggesting there was a dire need to upgrade the gateway to the completely rehabilitated Proctors block. Ah, yes, an idea from the press to the power brokers produces the usual guarantee of no action.

During a recent Metroplex board meeting, lower State was described variously by agency members as messy, depressed, decrepit and incredibly old. Hey, those are my lines!

The streetscape rehab, with a hoped-for fall start, will include new sidewalks, curbs, paving, lighting and trees. There have been some new businesses popping up on sagging State between Erie and Church.

A major disappointment has been a gaping hole in the lower main-drag streetscape caused by demolition of the former Robinson Furniture Co. When the building was razed, Metroplex Chairman Ray Gillen said not to worry because there was a line of developers with proposals for the missing tooth property.

Incidentally, that was five years ago.

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....08.php#ixzz2U2EX7PtI

I'm wondering if the missing tooth phrase was Marv's or Gillen's because Schenectady seems to be in love with knocking holes in the streetscape whenever possible.
They already decided one of our "problems" is "too many houses" and their "solution" seems to be demolition by neglect and then letting the taxpayer pay for the removal.
Yet they have built and are planning to build much denser housing at taxpayer expense. That new city planned at the valuable scarce industrial site on Erie Boulevard would require expanding infrastructure outward while McCheese moans some nonsense about infrastructure for 90,000 being the cause of his management problems.

Now waiting for the DV cheerleader to shake his pom poms and post here that it's wonderful that the already long overburned homeowners will have another tax increase because Mccarthy is looking for more money in is own pocket from his millionaire cronies.

Let's see if DV is MAN ENOUGH to address yet another contribution to the reduction of the city's tax base.

DV is such a cowardly cuckoo.
Cowardly = fearful
Cuckoo = ignorant.

DV is the cowardly  cuckoo who is too fearful to admit that he is ignorant about the FACTS, the EVIDENCE, that all this fixing up downtown has REDUCED THE TAX BASE in the city.  

He is NOT MAN ENOUGH to admit that he cannot address that FACT;   he is not even MAN ENOUGH to admit that he doesn't know how to find the EVIDENCE, even when the OFFICIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL proving the reduction in the tax base is put right in front of him!!!!!!!!!


He is not man enough to explain why he refuses to even rent IN the city.