Assembly Bill A5918

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs empire state development, in conjunction with the office of general services, to create plans for the development of mixed-use commercial and residential property at, and redesign of, the Harriman campus

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2025-A5918 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1613
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Economic Development

2025-A5918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs empire state development, in conjunction with the office of general services, to create a plan to develop mixed-use commercial and residential property on a certain portion of the Harriman campus; directs such plan to be completed and made available for public comment no later than 180 days after the effective date; directs empire state development, in conjunction with the office of general services, to create a master plan for the redesign of the Harriman campus; directs that such plan be completed and made available for public comment no later than one year after the effective date.

2025-A5918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   5918
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO, McDONALD -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  directing  empire  state  development,  in conjunction with the
   office of general services, to create plans  for  the  development  of
   mixed-use  commercial and residential property on a certain portion of
   the Harriman campus, and for redesign of the Harriman campus
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Definitions.  For  the  purposes of this act, the following
 terms shall have the following meanings:
   1. "Harriman campus" means the W. Averell Harriman state office build-
 ing campus located in Albany, New York.
   2.  "Wadsworth  project" means the project under which 27 acres of the
 Harriman campus are, at the time of this act's effective date,  targeted
 for  development  of  the  department  of  health's new Wadsworth center
 public health laboratory.
   § 2. Mixed-use property at Harriman campus.  1. Empire state  develop-
 ment  in conjunction with the office of general services, shall create a
 development plan under which 7 acres of  the  portion  of  the  Harriman
 campus targeted for the Wadsworth project shall be developed into mixed-
 use commercial and residential property.
   2. Empire state development, in conjunction with the office of general
 services,  shall complete the development plan created under subdivision
 one of this section, and make such development plan available for public
 comment, no later than 180 days after the effective date of this act.
   § 3. Redesign of Harriman campus.  1.  Empire  state  development,  in
 conjunction  with  the office of general services, shall create a master
 plan for a redesign of the Harriman campus. Such a  plan  shall  include
 but  not  be limited to: (a) the identification of sites on the Harriman
 campus for mixed-use commercial and retail development; (b)  the  repur-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04260-02-5
 A. 5918                             2

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Sachin_Mitra
1 month ago

The Wadsworth plan is 4x the price of the Gov's investment into downtown Albany. Therefore I think it commands at least 4x the attention. So far, it probably has generate less than 1/4 of that. I don't think we can talk about redeveloping state campuses downtown without including uptown as well. This bill and those two factors are indeed very timely. Dems need to show the country that their leadership works. Where better than NYS and it's capital city?

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