Brief history of the proposal process for The Rise | New Scotland, now named The Rise | Midtown Square

• Letter, March 27, 2021.
• "Albany’s Chief Planner Resigns amid questions about bias toward developers,” Steve Hughes, Times Union, March 24-26, 2021
• Letter, Common Council member, 9th ward, Judy L. Doesschate, Esq., to Planning Board, January 17, 2018, Re: 363 Ontario Street …, [Phaff and Jankow modus operandi, see Section 3 A]
• City of Albany, Planning Department, Case File 00238, Site Plan C-20, Subdivision Plan, August 21, 2019, Hershberg & Hershberg [Three Lots]
• City of Albany, Planning Department, Case File 00238, Site Plan C-3, Alternate Site Plan, [October 22, 2018], Hershberg & Hershberg [Fifth building, Building E]
• City of Albany, Planning Department, Case File 00238, Shadow Study, Summer Solstice, June 21, 2019.
• Mock-up of the Shadow Study with Building E.
• Unified Sustainable Development Ordinance, (U.S.D.O.), December 2019, page 143 [April 2017, was page 123, “… R-M districts, only one principal structure is permitted on a platted lot”]
• Letter, Common Council member, 9th ward, Judy L. Doesschate, Esq., to Richard Berkley, Esq., chairperson, City of Albany Board of Zoning Appeals, April 24, 2019, Re: 563 New Scotland Avenue, Application AV #0044 – Area Variance. From Case File 00238 [Response to threat of inclusion of a fifth building, Building E and the removal of Academy Station Post Office]
• Update, Letter in Support of 563 New Scotland Variance, May 2, 2019 [Actual reason for the writing of the letter, a stop gap measure to prevent the building of Building E, and the removal of the Academy Station Post Office, followed by the letter with signatures]
• City of Albany, Common Council Minutes of Regular Meeting, Monday, December 16, 2109 … Common Council Resolution 90.122.19R (MC) A Resolution of the Common Council Authorizing and Directing the City Corporation Counsel to Enforce the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions Dated May 1, 2017, for 20 Parcels Located on New Scotland Avenue, South Allen Street, and Onderdonk Avenue.
• Statement by Jonathon Tingley, Esq., Gilchrist and Tingley, representing property owner FM Promontory Capital, LLC, to the Common Council, January 6, 2020, on the Resolution to Enforce the Restrictive Covenant for 563 New Scotland Avenue [Included was the reading the above West Lawrence Street letter. Tingley’s raised voice, with threatening intonation, in italics]
• City of Albany, Planning Department, Case File 00238, Sewer Engineer’s Report & Sewer Extension Report, Hershberg & Hershberg, Revised June 26, 2019, page 2, Description of intended site development use
• City of Albany, Planning Department, Case File 00238, Sewer Engineer’s Report & Sewer Extension Report, Hershberg & Hershberg, Revised August 9, 2019, page 3, Description of intended site development use
• Site Plans C-21, C-18, C-4, C-3 and Floor Plan A4 from the City of Albany, Planning Department, Case File 00238, [showing two separate buildings, Buildings B and C, without a common foundation, underground parking garage under Building C and the plaza, and pedestrian tunnel to Building B, near elevator]
• City of Albany, New York, Department of Planning and Development, Planning Board meeting, Tuesday, August 27, 2019, project # 00238, proposal [Description of buildings in the agenda of the meeting for public comment and to announce the approval of the 563 New Scotland Avenue project, with conditions]
• Capitalize Albany Corporation, press release, January 16, 2020, “New Mixed-Use Development at 563 New Scotland Avenue to More Than Triple Revenue Generated for Local Taxing Jurisdictions,” [Industrial Development Agency, (I.D.A.) Description of Buildings B and C as “two four-story buildings”]
• City of Albany, Planning Department, Case File 00238, Site Plan C-21, Signage & Fire Truck Plan, August 21, 2019.