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  1. SamUpstate @[email protected] ·

    Leases and Independent Businesses

    The Albany Business Review reported yesterday that Rare Form Brewing in downtown Troy will be closing temporarily while they find and move to a new location. Apparently, lease negotiations didn’t work out. The article didn’t go into more detail about why lease negotiations didn’t work out, but this is just the more recent in what feels like an increasing trend of established independent businesses being forced out by their landlords because of issues with re-negotiating a lease. A […]

    sam.upstate.blog/brief-thought

    #articles #craftbeverages #food #localbusiness #localcurrentevents #localnews
  2. SamUpstate @[email protected] ·

    It’s good to see action finally being taken on the Central Warehouse, a structure that’s been a blight on the urban landscape of Albany as long as I’ve been in the area (20+ years).

    https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2024/01/30/central-warehouse-demolition-albany.html

    Unfortunately, it looks like it’s going to be […]

    https://sam.upstate.blog/jotting-things-down/2024/plenty-of-blame-to-go-around/

    #housing #localcurrentevents #localnews #localpolitics #policy
  3. SamUpstate @[email protected] ·

    My children’s school district had a two-hour delay this morning.

    I wrote about why we should do that more often and more widely.

    https://sam.upstate.blog/brief-thoughts/2024/in-praise-of-2-hour-delays/

    #localcurrentevents #policy #suburbanlife