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Online marketplace operators have a unique ability to obtain and use in their economic decision making personal data and transaction data, but also social data and location data. Therefore academics have described online marketplaces as new economic actor , or even as a new type of market economy .
Eventually Hugh and Lee Anne Howsman purchased the building to house their Howsman's Office Supply and Furniture Co. [9] Over time Howsman's business plan changed and in 2006 they sold the building to the Matt Miller Co. of Springfield, Missouri, [10] who redeveloped the upper stories into lofts and restored the main floor into an events space.
St. Joseph's Church is a historic neo-gothic church edifice in the Ten Broeck Triangle section of Albany, New York's Arbor Hill neighborhood. The structure is considered a city landmark and an important part of the Albany skyline. [1] The church closed in 1994. The City of Albany placed the church for sale in February 2023. [2]
The Albany Convention Center (ACC) was a proposed convention center to be located in downtown Albany, New York. The complex was initially proposed by Albany Mayor Gerald Jennings in 1994. In 2004, the Albany Convention Center Authority (ACCA) was established by the New York Legislature as a New York State public-benefit corporation to develop ...
Albany's history until the 21st century showed a lack of reputation as a cultural hub, that in 1982, then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch derided Albany as “a city without a good Chinese restaurant.” [4] [5] However, due to the flourishing nanotechnology [6] and high-technology [7] sectors, the city will be getting a new Chinatown by early 2013 ...
It was named for Edwin Corning, former Lieutenant Governor of New York, son of railroad baron and mayor, Erastus Corning, and father of Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd. [26] During the 1960s the Albany municipal landfill was located on the site of a former river water filtration plant that operated from the early 20th century to the 1930s.
The festival originated as a result of Albany becoming sister-cities with Nijmegen in the Netherlands following World War II. In gratitude, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands sent 2,000 flower bulbs to Albany. [1] On July 1, 1948, Albany's Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd got a city ordinance passed declaring the tulip as the city's official flower ...
The Thomas E. Dewey New York State Thruway is a toll-road that from Exit 24 in the city of Albany is I-87 and travels south to connect the county with downstate New York. West from Exit 24, the Thruway is I-90 and connects the county with Schenectady , Utica , Syracuse , Rochester , and Buffalo .