Sentences with phrase «gondola project»

She said the central New Yorkers on the task force requested Cuomo's support for the gondola project.

The gondola project was included with $ 70 million allocated for the State Fairgrounds in Geddes in a two - month budget that state lawmakers agreed to earlier this month to prevent a government shutdown.

Cuomo's budget proposal contains no mention of the much hyped — and maligned — gondola project among potential new capital spending at the state fairgrounds this fiscal year.

During the exchange with Axe, Mahoney revealed that higher than expected costs for a new expo center at the fairgrounds may require state and local officials to abandon the gondola project, at least for now.

Not exact matches

Tenney says the $ 15 million gondola planned for the New York State Fair is an unnecessary waste of taxpayers» money, and she'll oppose granting the federal approval needed for the project.

He has been a loud and frequent critic of Cuomo's development projects in Central New York, and last year called a proposed $ 15 million gondola for the New York State Fair a shameful example of government waste.

«We have continued our work on the project, developing plans, meeting with stakeholders and raising private investment capital,» said Peter Melewski, project manager for the proposed Capital District Gondola and national director of strategic planning for McLaren Engineering Group of West Nyack, Rockland County.

The gondola and other proposed projects at the fair — a $ 35 million expo center and $ 20 million for Orange Lot parking improvements — appeared to be recommendations by a task force Cuomo launched last fall to develop ideas for a second round of state investments.

A New York state senator from the Finger Lakes area quizzed the state's commissioner of agriculture and markets about the $ 15 million gondola introduced in 2016 as a new project for the New York State fairgrounds, but currently in limbo due to a lack of funding.

The proposed project would have a gondola system operating between the Amtrak Station in Rensselaer and carry passengers across the Hudson River to the Empire State Plaza complex in downtown Albany.

«The project represents a collaborative community initiative that continues to experience tremendous support from government agencies, community leaders, transportation groups, potential passengers and numerous other stakeholders,» says Mal McLaren, Managing Member of Capital Gondola, LLC.

Department of Agriculture and Markets Commissioner Richard Ball has said the gondola idea originated in 2015 when Cuomo asked him and state officials to come up with ideas for «phase 1» new State Fair projects.

Those projects include a $ 15 million gondola, an idea that, to state Sen. John DeFrancisco, came as a surprise.

Tenney said the gondola concept seems like a «silly pipe dream» and she's disturbed that the state delayed the release of records to Syracuse.com that might show how officials came up with the idea for the project.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to construct the gondola as part of a $ 70 million improvement project.

Here's my recent watercolour painting project from Joe Francis Dowdens watercolour book Ready To Paint: Venice in Watercolour, published by Search Press, and its accompanying DVD «Gondolas» published by Teaching Art.

Find out more about my watercolour painting project «Gondolas» from Joe Francis Dowden «s watercolour book Ready To Paint: Venice in Watercolour

By the time RE / MAX cofounder and chairman Dave Liniger climbs into the pressurized gondola of a hot - air balloon in late December or early January and attempts to circumnavigate the globe, the project will have generated a plethora of publicity for RE / MAX, which is the largest sponsor of the endeavor.