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Kenwood Commons

Returning the largest undeveloped parcel in the City of Albany to productive use, with new housing at its heart.

Kenwood Commons portal, indicative rendering
76acres
Mixed-use master plan
264homes
New housing across the site
5–8acres
Digital infrastructure footprint
115kV
Transmission already on site
1
Largest parcel in Albany
The project

A dormant parcel, brought back into use.


Kenwood Commons sits on the largest contiguous undeveloped parcel in the City of Albany, land that has stood idle for years. The plan is to return it to productive use as a single, coherent, mixed-use community.

The program is housing-led. It brings together 264 new homes, a measured digital infrastructure component, and research space, alongside the public realm and amenity that let a neighborhood function. The digital infrastructure footprint is deliberately small, between five and eight acres within the 76-acre site.

Why this site

The land carries existing 115 kV transmission. Power of that scale, already on site, is rare, and it is what lets the project support both modern infrastructure and the homes and jobs around it without placing new strain on the surrounding grid.

Built with the community

We have approached Kenwood Commons as a long-term member of the Albany community rather than a passing developer. The project is designed to deliver new housing, hundreds of construction and permanent jobs, and a durable tax base for a city that has carried this parcel as a liability for too long.

That work is being done in the open, through the City Planning Board, the state grid operator and Albany’s economic-development authorities, and in direct conversation with residents and local organizations.

The site before

What once stood there.

The abbey building at Kenwood, lost to fire in 2023
Kenwood, Albany

The abbey

The principal heritage building on the site, standing since the nineteenth century until it was lost to fire in 2023.

The chapel interior at Kenwood, lost to fire in 2023
Kenwood, Albany

The chapel

The vaulted chapel interior, photographed before the 2023 fire.

Kenwood Commons plaza, indicative rendering
Indicative rendering

The plaza

New public realm at the heart of the scheme.

Kenwood Commons site plan: six buildings and 264 homes set within retained open space, wetlands and stream corridors across the 74-acre parcel Site plan · indicative
EKG Group

Long-term capital, patient development, real community benefit.

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