#EndangeredAlbany

Begun in 2000, and issued every five years, Historic Albany Foundation designates an Endangered List for the City of Albany to raise awareness and guide our advocacy efforts. The Endangered List draws attention to buildings, properties, and landmarks that suffer from vacancy, disinvestment, or inappropriate development pressure, and are often potential targets for emergency demolition. 

It takes about 10+ years for a building to go from endangered to saved IF and only if the stars align and a responsible owner with a plan and funding can be found AND that owner can obtain the building. Given these obstacles, the list doesn’t change very often.  HAF’s Endangered Historic Resources List has highlighted the same large and white elephant buildings for nearly 20 years.

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In 2019, we highlighted 12 buildings on our Endangered Historic Resources List and gave detailed updates on each property.

This Endangered List highlighted several themes that included many buildings that Historic Albany has been advocating for including vacant religious properties, zombie buildings, underutilized municipal buildings, historic commercial corridors, Rapp Road Historic District, and James Hall Office.

Historic Albany has been issuing Endangered Historic Resource Lists since 2000. See the past lists above…