The tall windows of the ground floor lobby of the historic St. Francis Hotel in Albany have been restored, or opened up, to their full height.
I noticed the gleaming wall of glass on a bike ride earlier this week. For a month or more, that wall was covered with a two-story shroud, but this week the shroud was gone. It had been moved to the building’s First Avenue side instead.
The former hotel, which county records say was built in 1915, has been undergoing a slow renovation and reconstruction since shortly after Albany real estate magnate Scott Lepman bought it in 2022…