“Our hiking friend,” said David Bourque of the planned statue, “will provide an Instagram moment” for walkers completing the Long Path. He also said, “It’s going to cost three times what the kiosk cost.”
A 2015 approval from the Guilderland Town Board allows Wolanin Companies to construct nine apartment buildings, a mixed-use office and retail building, and a clubhouse with a swimming pool. To date, two of 11 proposed buildings have been built while 64 of 210 apartments have gone up. Wolanin this week attributed the delays and proposed changes to, among other things, financial hardships due to “skyrocketing prices,” as well crew loss, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
After 50 minutes of questioning the developer’s agents and the town’s engineer, the board scheduled a public hearing on the proposal for Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. at Guilderland Town Hall. The last hearing on the proposal, in November 2023, lasted two hours. All of the citizens who spoke, many of them neighbors of the proposal, were against it.
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