$3,500 GRANT TO HELP BOOST SPA CITY'S HISTORIC DISTRICT.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The city has received a $3,500 state grant to write guidelines for development in the downtown Broadway Historic District.

The grant was awarded by the state Office for Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for the Downtown Historic District Building Guidelines program.

``There will be a consultant hired, who in turn with various development agencies will write a series of proposed guidelines for architectural design for the Broadway Historic District,'' Mayor J. Michael O'Connell said Monday.

The guidelines will give developers an outline of what is expected for buildings …