Ending the suspense and anticipation around the Empire State, the Governor has announced the state’s 2014 Regional Economic Development Council grant awards. Empire State Future has been pleasantly surprised with the extent to which these grants have embodied and advanced smart […]
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LoHud.com updates several Westchester-Rockland development p…
LoHud.com recently published a helpful compilation of major development projects in the pipeline for Westchester and Rockland Counties; the piece explains each project and gives an update on where they currently stand. Read more at LoHud.com […]
continue readingBuffalo strives for effective housing for the homeless
Hope Gardens, a Buffalo housing project of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center, includes a curious design feature–padded benches outdoors for those formerly homeless women residents to sleep on, if they choose. This feature is part of the designers’ […]
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Syracuse downtown seeing booming residential population grow…
Syracuse’s downtown has seen an astonishing 47 percent increase in residential population in the last decade, including a 21 percent spike in just the last three years. Cynics will probably say the statistics are impressive only because the downtown population […]
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Hug a Tree: Help Our Youth, Your Commute and Your Community
[Photo courtesy of Groundwork Hudson Valley] Trees are our greenest form of infrastructure. They provide shade, cooling, beauty, and oxygen. Trees support road and rail embankments by holding soil in place. They help drainage. They sequester CO2. They can also […]
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Corning-based preservation architect focused on bringing lif…
For over two decades Elise Johnson-Schmidt has focused her preservation architecture efforts on buildings in Corning–and has branched way beyond, dedicated to bringing new life to the upper floors of historic buildings in communities throughout the state. Her projects include […]
continue readingAcross the River from Albany, a Vision for Rensselaer Emerge…
Across the Hudson River from Albany is Rensselaer, known now as the location of the impressive new Albany train station. But Rensselaer is a city, too, and an ambitious plan is afoot to transform it. Read more in Albany Times […]
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I Marched Too.
I too was a drop in the river of 350,000 climate change marchers in Manhattan a few weeks ago. I was glad to be there amidst the largest climate change event ever. The buzz that day reminded me of the […]
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Let Them in. Bring Them Here.
(Photo courtesy of Syracuse.com: Supporters of the plan to house immigrant children on the campus of the former Maria Regina College) If it were only a case of 50,000 destitute children interned for trying to enter the United States, we would […]
continue readingSolarCity: a huge boon, bonanza for Buffalo
Solar City will open the Western Hemisphere’s largest solar panel manufacturing operation in South Buffalo on the site of a former steel plant, and is poised to bring with it more jobs (3,000 possible) than the steel plant ever had, […]
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