Construction kicks off on new home for Albany Museum of Art in downtown

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — Construction has now begun on the new home for the Albany Museum of Art.The museum is moving to the old Belk building on W Broad Avenue in downtown. The project’s general contractor, LRA Constructors, Inc., has started clearing the inside of the 58,000-square-foot, two-story building, which is located at 126 W Broad Ave. The full project is expected to take up to two years to finish. “Passing pedestrians and motorists will notice increasing construction activity at the downtown site,” AMA Executive Director Andrew James Wulf, Ph.D., said. “After years of planning, fundraising, and working through the complexities of a project of this scale, it’s enormously gratifying to see the work begin. There is something wonderfully exciting about taking a building that was once such an important part of downtown Albany’s commercial life and giving it an entirely new purpose. And now, that transformation is underway.”The project, which is costing $35 million, will turn the old