About the tracker
Upstate8 follows development across eight Upstate regions — from the first public filing through construction and opening — with project cards, tracked retail openings and deeper research along the way.
Upstate8 tracks what is being proposed, approved, built and opened across eight Upstate New York regions — the Capital Region, Mid-Hudson, Central New York, Mohawk Valley, Finger Lakes, Western New York, Southern Tier and North Country. Each project has a searchable card with location, scale, review stage and links to its source documents.
Upstate8 draws from public records; it is not the official record itself. Municipal filings, board packets and agency documents remain the authoritative sources — every project page points back to them so you can verify what you read here.
For a growing set of projects and businesses, a Dig Deeper story goes beyond the filing: what the record shows so far, which claims are still only claims, and where the review stands. Research is added as filings and public documents advance — not every card carries one yet.
Eight regions describes where Upstate8 looks, not everything happening there. No independent tracker can capture every proposal in every municipality, and this one doesn’t claim to. The directory grows project by project, region by region, as filings surface and records are verified.
When a project or business appears here, it earned its card: someone found the public filing, read it, and recorded what it says. What isn’t here simply hasn’t been found and verified yet.
On every project card
How records are found
Discovery can begin with reporting, announcements or a tip — a news story about a proposed project is often the first sign something is moving. From there, the record is built from primary sources: municipal agendas, planning board filings, board packets and agency documents are added as research progresses.
Claims vs. findings
Not everything in a filing carries the same weight. What an applicant says a project will deliver is labeled as a claim; what a reviewing body documents is labeled as a concern; what the public said at a hearing is recorded as testimony. The absence of testimony is treated as just that — an absence, not support or opposition.
Corrections
Projects change, and so do the records that describe them. When a filing is revised or an error is found, cards are updated against the source documents — and a correction is welcome: if something on Upstate8 doesn’t match the public record, the records win. Every project page links to the filings so you can check for yourself.
Behind Upstate8
Ryan
Creator & maintainer
Albany, New York
I’m Ryan, the creator of Upstate8. I work in commercial property maintenance for an Albany-based property management company, so I spend my days around buildings — and I’ve always been the person wondering, “What’s going on there?”
Upstate8 began with that curiosity: What’s going on here? What’s being built? How does it impact the area? I like seeing progress, and I wanted a way to organize these projects — and make them easy for others to track and follow.
So Upstate8 exists to help answer those questions, and to give you a place to find project details, source documents, and a deeper understanding of what’s changing across the region.
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