A week after demolition began at Albany’s maligned Central Warehouse, prep work for taking down another decrepit site began Monday. The redevelopment of Lincoln Square Towers is another step toward reimagining the city’s downtown neighborhoods.
Lincoln Square Homes, built in the 1960s, consisted of 196 public housing units spread between four buildings, two, 12-story and two, eight-story buildings.
Plagued by rising maintenance costs and crumbling architecture, the site underwent substantial rehabilitation in the mid 1980s before deteriorating to the point of being deemed obsolete two decades ago by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…