Organization: AACA

Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy, the Albany County Arts and Culture Advisory Council and the Advance Albany County Alliance presented 28 local art organizations and individuals with $729,161.84 in arts-focused grant funding, during an honorary reception on Friday morning at the Albany Institute of History and Art. The award winners announced Friday include local theater companies, art galleries, public organizations, individual artists, historic preservation groups and more (see list below). This round of funding follows more than $500,000 awarded…

The Advance Albany County Alliance announced today that its Board of Directors has voted to enter contract negotiations for the demolition of the long-abandoned Central Warehouse, and has invited Gramercy Group, Inc. of Wantagh, New York, and LiRo-Hill to those negotiations. The Central Warehouse, a 97-year-old decommissioned cold storage facility in North Albany, has largely been abandoned and deteriorating since the early 1990’s. The cost of the demolition is now estimated at more than $14 million, higher than the $13…