TACTICAL REVITALIZATION PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN ALBANY NY

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Additionally our team will discuss the current master plans and discuss alternatives strategies
for layout and design, program, site amenities, and scope of improvements.
Deliverables:
• Scoping meeting with appropriate parties.
• Meeting summary which indicates the agreements/understanding reached.
D2. Phase 1: Site Reconnaissance
Our team begins every project with a research-based discovery process in which we look
for opportunities for landscapes, infrastructures and urban fabric to fulfill multiple roles
simultaneously. We’re especially interested in how these systems work, and in how their
discrete agendas can be broadened, hybridized and enriched. Our working methodology
incorporates parallel streams of inquiry where we seek to understand historic and existing
conditions, including successes and failures, as well as the performance criteria of each of the
individual elements or systems in play. These studies tell us how each of the systems will work
on its own, but typically also reveal areas of overlap or gaps where we can dig deeper.
At the Corning Preserve, Stoss and team will work intimately with DOS, the City of Albany,
Riverfront Advisory Committee and Capitalize Albany Corporation to review all existing plans,
reports and information gathered by the various agencies. Buro Happold will review existing
plans and materials, review site survey provided by others, review site geotechnical data
provided by others, examine existing topography and hydrology and review the projected
climate-change related impacts as per the City of Albany’s draft vulnerability assessment.
In addition the team will seek an understanding of the full range of opportunities available
for connecting the waterfront to the greater Albany community, through the Albany Tactical
Revitalization Plan, and more intimately to the Hudson River.
This phase ends with the creation of a synthesized drawing of existing maps, diagrams,
case studies and technical data. The goal is to put on the table for clients, stakeholders and
ourselves the full range of existing conditions that will impact the project through the master
plan phase to facilitate a common technical understanding of the site.
Deliverables:
A map or maps at a scale to be agreed upon in the scoping session showing the above
information and other appropriate information that may be identifies as a result of the project
scoping session.