As new year begins, questions for Schenectady’s $10M Downtown Revitalization Initiative remain unanswered | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SCHENECTADY — The year has been rough for downtown Schenectady, where restaurants and bars have been battered by stop-and-go restrictions and Proctors remains shuttered. But even amid the pandemic, the city passed a major hurdle on how to spend $10 million in state grant funds awarded last fall as part of the Schenectady Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI), the effort designed to spur broader economic investment between downtown and Mohawk Harbor. With the year coming to an end, and the state facing an $8.7 billion projected budget shortfall, an announcement on which projects, if any, will be greenlit by the state remains forthcoming.