Our friends at the All Over Albany blog recently published a summary of the Albany 2030 draft plan so that you don’t have to read through all 272 pages.  As a downtown project close to public transportation options and built with Albany’s history and environmentally-friendly construction in mind, a new condo home at 17 Chapel is a solid investment.

Here are some of the ways that a new downtown condo fits the plan for Albany’s future:

• “Use zoning to promote mixed use development in neighborhood commercial centers, the downtown, and along transit corridors.” (pg 34 / pdf pg 44)
• Create development incentives for preserving historic buildings and facades and ensuring architectural compatibility between new and existing development
• “Build the downtown residential population by incentivizing high density residential and mixed use development/redevelopment.” (pg 52 / pdf pg 62)
• “Goal: Increase options to the private automobile to move people within and between Albany, the Capital Region, and beyond.”
• Determine the feasibility of a citywide bike share program.” (pg 100 / pdf pg 110)

See above!