Binghamton, NY-Urban Renewal History, Phase 1

I’ve described in a previous post the origins of the Broom County Planning Commission, which beginning in the late 1940s provided planning services for the City of Binghamton. In the course of preparing a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Downtown Binghamton Historic District, my colleague Sam Gruber and I delved into the …

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Binghamton, NY-Urban Renewal history, part 1

Beginning in the summer of 2018, I collaborated with my colleague, Sam Gruber, on the preparation of a National Register of Historic Places nomination for downtown Binghamton, NY. This has been a complicated project, as our client, the City of Binghamton’s Planning Department, asked that we consolidate three existing small historic districts, each created more …

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