SCHENECTADY— If you head to a Union College hockey game at the this fall, with maybe a stop along the way to gamble at the casino or to grab dinner at one of the restaurants in the harbor complex, pause for a moment to imagine that the waterfront was once destined to become — a tire recycling plant.

Before the hockey arena, casino, apartments and three hotels at the site were conceived, a proposal to install a tire recycling plant at the former American Locomotive Company [ALCO] property was considered by the city’s prior economic development regime two decades ago.

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