Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office released details of a $200 million conceptual plan to revitalize Albany. Included in the 88-page “Downtown Albany Strategy” was a rendering of an excavated and reopened section of the city’s former Erie Canal lock. A group of local residents advocating for a waterway running parallel to the Hudson River say that rendering shows their plan has made a splash.
Len Tantillo helped form Albany Waterway Inc. — a group that includes local thought and business leaders advocating for the creation of a canal.
According to Tantillo and the group, the first and most feasible step in the project would be to reopen the Erie Canal’s original Lock 1 in Albany’s Warehouse District…