At last … City breaks ground on transportation center
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From staff reports
ALBANY — A quest that began almost 25 years ago is now headed toward reality in the city of Albany.
Albany officials and other dignitaries gathered at 300 West Oglethorpe Blvd. Monday morning to officially break ground on the transportation center, whose genesis dates back to 1998. With numerous false starts and a number of political and environmental issues plaguing the project from the beginning, it was unceremoniously handed down from year to year — years that surpassed two decades — before the most recent Albany City Commission voted to OK the site location and funding that greenlit the project that is expected to be the centerpiece of plans to revamp the city’s old Harlem District.
“This project could ignite Albany’s efforts to move forward,” Ward III City Commissioner B.J. Fletcher, who took part in the groundbreaking ceremony Monday, said afterward. “It has the potential to really move our community forward. It’s been a long time coming, but this is now a reality.”
The city said in a news release that construction for the new center is already underway, and multiple funding sources will finance the project, including federal grants, state grants, and local sales tax dollars.
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