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The name "Tech Valley", or "Techneurial Valley" as was originally used, is usually credited to Wallace "Wally" Altes, a former president of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce ("the Chamber"), [10] while the shortened name from "Techneurial" to "Tech" was the idea of Jay Burgess. [11]
Aug. 21—ALBANY — The Albany Area Chamber of Commerce has announced a pair of its most anticipated high-profile events. The Chamber will present the PROPEL Women in Business program Wednesday ...
The 19-county Tech Valley region, which extends from the Canada–US border south to Orange County, [10] is marketed by organizations such as the Tech Valley Chamber Coalition, the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the Albany-based Center for Economic Growth. [11]
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In January 2022, BFG purchased the historic University Club in downtown Albany, and later donated use of the building to the newly formed Albany Black Chamber of Commerce & Social Club. [12] In May, the foundation donated $1 million to the three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. [13] [14]
A plan initiated by the Albany Chamber of Commerce – later published under the title Studies for Albany – decided upon a public park as a plaza surrounded by buildings that would screen the locomotive smoke, obnoxious odors and sights of the working waterfront from the vista of State Street. [9]
The New York Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1768 by twenty New York City merchants. As the first such commercial organization in the United States , it attracted the participation of a number of New York's most influential business leaders, including John Jacob Astor , Peter Cooper , and J. Pierpont Morgan .
Also in 1820 a chamber of commerce is established at Albany. The Common Council takes over the right to appoint the mayor and in 1821 unanimously elects Charles Edward Dudley. In Albany William Charles Redfield proposes that hurricanes are circular rotational vortices. The DeWitt Clinton, first train in New York, ran from Albany to Schenectady.