ALBANY — A city official and an Albany public relations executive are leading an effort to develop a bus station inside Empire State Plaza.
Chief City Auditor Sam Fein and Joe Bonilla, co-founder of the PR firm Relentless Awareness, said Monday they are behind a website that surfaced over the Juneteenth holiday weekend proposing that intercity buses be moved to an underground deck at the Empire State Plaza Concourse.
The proposal comes after County Executive Daniel P. McCoy bowed to sustained public backlash and withdrew a county-backed plan to build a $7 million terminal at the site of a former McDonald’s and South End Grocery store at 106 S. Pearl St…