Mission
The Albany Riverfront Collaborative will engage our complete community in the creation of an equitable, sustainable, beautiful, forever-vision, and the initial, iterative steps toward this vision. The ARC will forge the robust civic partnerships necessary to nurture a river-connected and sustaining community with a vibrant and interdependent economy, culture, and landscape.
OUR PRINCIPLES
We focus on our community. This is not a riverfront development project or a transportation project. It is a long-term, widely engaging, and deeply transformative community development plan.
We seek systemic change. We will not create a solution that fixes one problem only to exacerbate other issues.
We will use current conditions as valuable information. We will develop relationships to align the rail line and other constraints with our communal and reciprocal access to the Hudson River.
We will not be limited in our vision. We must vision a working, vibrant, and ecologically savvy riverfront rather than merely repairing existing damages.
We recognize the iterative nature of this planning. We have aspirational goals, with guiding principles, so that we can do the reachable work in a way that will lead to an excellent outcome over time.
We seek to go beyond inclusion to co-creation. We seek co-benefits in the planning, as this will strengthen support and result in resilient and sustaining improvements.
We see and celebrate connections. We know we are part of the whole river, the full city, and all occupants (human and non).
ARC CONTRIBUTORS
Riley Ackley, Downtown Neighborhood Association
Elisa Albert, Novelist
Corey Aldrich, Alliance for the Creative Economy
Owusu Anane, Albany Common Council Member
Mark Aronowitz, Omni Development
Derek Baranski, Videographer
Paige Barnum, NYS OPRHP
Eva Bass, AVillage
Joe Bonilla, Relentless Awareness
Adam Bonosky, SWBR
Lincoln Brown, Lincoln Brown Illustration
Jeff Buell, Redburn Development
Schuyler Bull, Fort Orange General Store
Kelsey Carr, LaBella Associates
Zac Conley, Cresa Realty
Daniel Connolly, Videographer
Martin Daley, Livingston Ave Bridge Coalition
Jim Daus, Environmental Real Estate Solutions
Anna Davidson, SUNY/Albany Student
Al DeSalvo, City of Albany Planning Board Chair
John Eberle, The Community Foundation
Judith Enck, (fmr) EPA Regional Administrator
Patricia Fahy, Assemblywoman NYS 109th District
Ginnie Farrell, Albany Common Council Member
Sam Fein, Albany County Legislator, 6th District
Gabby Fisher, co-mads and Micropolitan Matchmakers
Tony Gaddy, Upstate New York Black Chamber of Commerce
Alice Green, Ph.D., Center for Law & Justice
Alan Goldberg, First Albany Companies
Jackie Gonzales, Walkable Albany
Shawn Hamlin, Hamlin Design Group
Salah Harris, Good Seward LLC
Kevin Hasselwander, Chazen Companies
Jahkeen Hoke, Business for Good
Susan Home, Trinity Construction
Pam Howard, Historic Albany Foundation
W Dan Hulchanski, Canal Society of NYS
Scott Kellogg, Radix Ecological Sustainability Center
Amy Klein, Capital Roots
Annmarie Lanesey, CanCode Communities
Reif Larsen, The Future of Small Cities Institute
Benita Law-Diao, Outdoor Afro
Liz LoGiudice, Resilience Communications & Consulting, LLC
Cara Macri, Historic Albany Foundation
Carolyn McLaughlin, Albany County Legislature
George McNamee, Plug Power
Melanie Metzger, Albany Public Library
Tracy Metzger, (Former) IDA Chairperson
Jonah Michel, Around Albany
Jeff Mirel, Rosenblum Companies
Christina Minkler, PE, Transportation Engineer
Philip Morris, Proctors Collaborative
Michael N’Dolo, MRB Group
Rebecca Odell, NYS OPRHP
Chet Opalka, Kiwi Foundation
Gabriella Romero, Albany Common Council Member
Yasmine Robinson, (former) City of Albany Planner
Jim Rua, Café Capriccio
Maureen Sager, Alliance for the Creative Economy
Christine Schudde, Habitat for Humanity Capital District
Starletta Smith, YWCA of the GCR
Jodi Smits Anderson, EYP
Georgette Steffens, Albany Downtown BID
Mary Liz Stewart, Young Abolitionists Leadership Institute
Paul Stewart, Underground RR Education Center
Karen Strong, Strong Outcomes
Maryika Stubbs, Community Foundation of the GCR
Ed Swyer, Stuyvesant Plaza
Scott Townsend, SWBR
Charles Touhey, Omega Homes/Touhey Associates
Josh Wainman, Wainschaf Associates
Arlene Way, Arbor Hill Development Corp
Paul Webster, Clean and Healthy New York
Willie White, Albany Dept. of Youth & Workforce Services
Bobbi Wilding, Clean and Healthy New York
Adam Zaranko, Albany County Land Bank