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Metroplex chair: Proposed downtown Schenectady street redirections would benefit development | The Daily Gazette
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Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority chairman Ray Gillen advocated for a pair of street redirection projects in public hearings during Monday’s virtual City Council meeting.
Gillen spoke on behalf of Metroplex to support a pair of changes to traffic flow one to redirect South Church Street from State Street to Fuller Street from a two-way street into a one-way street while also allowing for westbound left turns from State Street to South Church Street, the other redirecting Barrett and Huron Streets between South Avenue and Park Place from a one-way street to a two-way street.
As new year begins, questions for Schenectady’s $10M Downtown Revitalization Initiative remain unanswered | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY The year has been rough for downtown Schenectady, where restaurants and bars have been battered by stop-and-go restrictions and Proctors remains shuttered.
But even amid the pandemic, the city passed a major hurdle on how to spend $10 million in state grant funds awarded last fall as part of the Schenectady Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI), the effort designed to spur broader economic investment between downtown and Mohawk Harbor.
With the year coming to an end, and the state facing an $8.7 billion projected budget shortfall, an announcement on which projects, if any, will be greenlit by the state remains forthcoming.