ALBANY — Patrick Chiou could have gotten any business to sign a lease for the first-floor commercial space at the Lofts @ Spruce, his 38-unit apartment building in Albany’s Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.
The apartments began renting in 2023 in the former Freihofer Baking Co. building on Spruce Street, in the shadow of Henry Johnson Boulevard’s elevated highway.
So, it was a big deal that Capitalize Albany, the city’s economic development arm, held a ribbon cutting on Tuesday morning, celebrating Chiou’s new tenant…