Albany’s new Tricentennial Park: Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves
What you see is not just a park in need of a winter cleanup. This is a failure at all levels: owner, designer, and contractor. All the hard surfaces will be a forever maintenance nightmare and make it a place that no one wants to spend any time in.
Per this link, a few of the project objectives were to include, “New trees, benches, and landscaping to refresh and green the space” and “…eliminate trip hazards..”
https://www.albanyny.gov/2405/Tricentennial-Park
Well, they completely failed on the greening and trip hazard parts. The whole place is heaving with more trip hazards than ever existed before. The public should have some recourse for not getting what we paid for. This may be one of the few parks I know of that would be better suited as a parking lot. But, everything is fixable, and the new city administration should at least remove the rubberized asphalt and make it grass.
Design drawings are here:
https://www.albanyny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/12389/Tricentennial-Park-Bid-Plans?bidId=607