The city Planning Commission approved housing and retail for the old Alco site as part of Galesi Group’s development of the 60-acre riverfront property. The design of the apartment building with retail on the first floor and a condominium building plays into the city’s industrial history with brown exterior and heavy steel, said J.T. Pollard, owner of Re4orm Architecture. The 295,000-square-foot apartment building includes 191 apartment units and 48,000 square feet of retail

Two Sundays ago, the Times Union raised questions about the cleanup of the former ALCO site in Schenectady and followed up with an editorial the next day suggesting redevelopment of the ALCO site should not move forward. The ALCO redevelopment project is already well under way. We built a new $50 million green office building on former Alco property. Union College invested $15 million to build a conference center, student housing and sports fields on former ALCO land. Along t

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A casino is coming to the city of Schenectady, but the developer says plans to transform the waterfront have been in the works for years. The developer said plans to transform the Schenectady waterfront was being planned before the city applied for a casino. The transformation was going to happen either way, including building a harbor with 50 boat slips surrounded by apartments, a hotel and retail. Construction is already underway. The force of a