Saddle Up Stables sold: the ~120-acre Diamond Point tract
Verified closed Town of Lake George deeds recorded Aug 4, 2026. News reports June 10 closing and a Chronicle price of $3.86M (news-reported).
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Verified closed Town of Lake George deeds recorded Aug 4, 2026. News reports June 10 closing and a Chronicle price of $3.86M (news-reported).
Read the brief →Town ZBA area variance for a proposed 25-building cabin colony for STR/tourist use — Sep 2 hearing, Oct 7 return. Approval not verified.
Read the brief →30-day threshold, prohibited districts, $100 permit / June 1 renewal — Town code and guide checklist. Not legal advice.
Read the guide →Town Planning Board heard Sketch Plan #2-2026 for the former Magic Forest / Expedition Park site — conceptual only, no approval vote.
Read the brief →Touches the water vs view-only vs access-only — the line we use before we call a listing waterfront.
Read the guide →Link out · 32 news stories · 43 board items · 14 building timelines
Sales, buildings and projects around the lake as local outlets report them, plus what comes before the town and village planning and zoning boards. The summaries are ours. News headlines are the outlet’s own and link to the full story; board items are labeled with the board, meeting date and application and link to the official agenda or minutes. We link to the parcel map or our own brief when we can identify the property, and we never name private owners, applicants or buyers. When several items concern the same building, they share one card with a timeline.
Magic Forest housing plan
Magic Forest to be Levelled, Replaced by New Development
Lake George Mirror
Village Mall overhaul, 204 Canada St
Lake George Village Planning Board agenda, Sep 16: site plan for Village Mall, 204 Canada Street
Lake George Village Planning Board
Erlowest / Sun Castle redevelopment
Erlowest expansion awaits knowing if new Lake George sewer line will extend to it
Glens Falls Chronicle
Cooper's Point mansion at Green Harbour
The Rebirth of Green Harbor Mansion: Repurposing a Gilded Age Survivor for the 21st Century
Lake George Mirror
Saddle Up Stables sold
Saddle Up Stables sale ends N.C. family’s near-century Lake George horse ride biz
Glens Falls Chronicle
Pilot Knob Marina back on the market
Pilot Knob Marina for sale again — $5.749-million
Glens Falls Chronicle
Cedarbrook Hotel to 11 apartments
Lake George Town Planning Board
Adirondack Trust at 75-77 Canada St
Lake George Village Planning Board
Windsor Motel rebuild, 21 to 28 rooms
Lake George Village Planning Board minutes, Jun 17: sketch plan for Windsor Motel, 51 Canada Street
Lake George Village Planning Board
Super 8 to Circle K on Route 9
Lake George Town Planning Board
Lake George Town Planning Board
An October agenda lists a sketch plan to replace the Super 8 hotel at 20 Prosser Road / 3631 Route 9 with a roughly 6,983 sq ft commercial building anchored by a Circle K store and gas station. From the board’s agenda · Town of Lake George
Lake George Town Planning Board
An October agenda lists a sketch plan to turn a vacant former gas-station lot just south of 3652 State Route 9 into a drive-thru ice cream shop. From the board’s agenda · Town of Lake George
Lake George Mirror
The Hague Historical Society is pressing the Town to study adding a sprinkler system and an addition to the community center to house a bigger history museum; the supervisor says community support is not yet clear. News story · Hague
3 items · Mar 17, 2026 to Sep 16, 2026
The September agenda lays out a full overhaul of the Village Mall at 204 Canada Street: lakeside decks growing from 700 to 2,400 sq ft, a new rooftop level and restaurant space of nearly 400 seats, plus a proposed change to the Lakewalk easement. From the board’s agenda · Lake George Village Planning Board
The Village Mall owner sought height and shoreline-setback variances for a rooftop restaurant level and bigger lakeside decks at 204 Canada Street; the ZBA tabled it and sent it to the Planning Board. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Village Zoning Board
The roughly 50-year-old Village Mall on Canada Street was bought by the ownership group of The Lagoon, the lakeside restaurant that has leased space there since 2018; the new owners plan phased renovations, including facade work tied to state Downtown Revitalization funding. News story · Glens Falls Business Journal
2 items · Nov 18, 2025 to Sep 2, 2026
The 3919 Route 9L cabin colony returned as a 25-building plan (5 one-bedroom and 20 two-bedroom) seeking a stormwater-basin setback variance; the September agenda lists it and the item is carried to October. From the board’s agenda · Lake George Town Zoning Board
Planning Board held an early sketch review of a proposed cabin colony at 3919 Route 9L and Bloody Pond Road, pitched as 30 rental cabins plus a maintenance building. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Town Planning Board
4 items · Jul 31, 2026 to Aug 27, 2026
Magic Forest and Expedition Park would be razed for a mixed-use PUD of rental apartments, senior housing, commercial space with apartments, and for-sale two-family homes; the Waterkeeper raised sewer-capacity and East Brook runoff concerns. News story · Lake George Mirror
The Post-Star reports the Town Planning Board was receptive to the Magic Forest housing sketch plan despite its scale. No approval vote was taken (subscriber article). News story · The Post-Star · subscriber article
The property owner floated a Planned Unit Development to replace the 61.5-acre Magic Forest amusement park on Route 9 with apartments, senior housing, commercial space and two-family homes. No vote was taken. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Town Planning Board
The owner of the former Magic Forest amusement park floated a plan to turn the 61-acre Route 9 site into a mixed-use neighborhood of roughly 374 homes, with senior units, two-family houses, quadplexes, self-storage and a commercial building with apartments above, ahead of an Aug. 11 Town Planning Board look. News story · Times Union via Adirondack Explorer · Original at Times Union ↗
2 items · May 21, 2026 to Aug 20, 2026
Bolton's Planning Board approved a temporary 4-by-8-foot sign marketing the development on the 3799 Lake Shore Drive parcel. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Planning Board
The developer of the townhomes on the 3799 Lake Shore Drive parcel won approval for eight overflow parking spaces and a temporary sign. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Planning Board
Bolton Planning Board
Hon Dah Cottages received approval for a sign larger than four square feet on Hondah Loop. From the board’s minutes · Bolton
3 items · Jun 24, 2026 to Aug 14, 2026
The Saddle Up Stables property at 3513 Lake Shore Drive, including the adjacent deli, sold on June 10 for $3.86 million, ending a family horse-riding business with roots in the 1930s. News story · Glens Falls Chronicle
A look back at Saddle Up Stables, the Diamond Point trail-riding business open since 1974 whose roots go back to the 1930s, which closed with the property's June sale. News story · Lake George Mirror
The roughly 120-acre Saddle Up Stables property in Diamond Point, with a deli, house, cabins and barns and over a quarter mile of Route 9N frontage, sold for about $4 million. The buyers say no definite plans exist yet. News story · Lake George Mirror
Adirondack Explorer
The Sembrich museum received by bequest a house with barns and a greenhouse at 4825 Lake Shore Drive, built as the caretaker's cottage for the Bay View estate and later run as a bed and breakfast; it will become the museum's administrative offices. News story · Bolton
Bolton Zoning Board
The Bolton Museum asked for a use variance to put up a pole barn on Norowal Road to store historic artifacts; the ZBA tabled it pending a determination from the town planning director. From the board’s minutes · Bolton
Lake George Town Planning Board
Planning Board approved converting the Cedarbrook Hotel at 3141 Lakeshore Drive into 11 long-term rental apartments. From the board’s minutes · Town of Lake George
Lake George Mirror
A profile of the Club Grill, the Sagamore resort's steakhouse in a nearly century-old building above its Donald Ross golf course, open to the public five nights a week. News story · Bolton
8 items · Oct 16, 2025 to Jul 18, 2026
State and village officials dedicated the new Shepard Park Performance Stage, which replaces the bandshell destroyed by fire in June 2024. News story · Lake George Examiner
The rebuilt Shepard Park amphitheater held its first shows under a temporary certificate of occupancy ahead of a public ribbon-cutting on July 17. News story · Glens Falls Chronicle
The Village scheduled a July 17 dedication, tours and all-day music for the new Shepard Park stage, whose lower level has performer space, a conference room, gallery space and a lifeguard room. News story · Lake George Examiner
The new Shepard Park Performance Stage was nearly finished in May, with a larger, higher stage and a 46-foot fold-up rear window, and a soft opening planned for June. News story · Lake George Examiner
Construction is under way on a $5.5 million Shepard Park amphitheater and bandshell, funded partly through state Downtown Revitalization money and an Assembly grant, with Bonacio Construction building the bandshell. News story · Lake George Mirror
State and Village officials broke ground on a rebuild of the Shepard Park amphitheater and bandstand, adding a redesigned stage, better seating, accessible paths, landscaping, new sound and lighting and below-stage storage, paid for partly through the Village's Downtown Revitalization Initiative award. News story · Adirondack Explorer
Officials broke ground on the new Shepard Park performance stage, which adds modern lighting and A/V, lower-level storage and community space, better seating and accessibility, and a new playground. News story · Lake George Examiner
The Village set an Oct. 22 groundbreaking for the rebuilt Shepard Park amphitheater, replacing the structure lost to a June 2024 fire, with completion targeted before the 2026 concert season. News story · Glens Falls Chronicle
2 items · Jul 9, 2026 to Jul 16, 2026
Bolton Brewing Company won site plan approval to expand its brewery and restaurant at 4933 Lake Shore Drive, with shielded downward lighting required; the item returned in August. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Planning Board
Bolton ZBA approved setback, lot-occupancy and non-conforming-structure relief for Bolton Brewing Company's expansion at 4933 Lake Shore Drive. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Zoning Board
Lake George Town Planning Board
Yankee Boating Center got approval to renovate an 8,000 sq ft steel boat-storage building at 3578 Lakeshore Drive into a boat showroom. From the board’s minutes · Town of Lake George
Lake George Mirror
The Bolton Museum's 1890 former church building, closed to exhibits for over a decade, is slated for heating, insulation and accessibility upgrades toward a spring 2028 reopening, helped by a new state arts grant. News story · Bolton
Lake George Mirror
New York's Board for Historic Preservation nominated the Lake George Club in Diamond Point, a 1908 social club with a Charles S. Peabody clubhouse, for the State and National Registers of Historic Places. News story · Town of Lake George
Lake George Village Planning Board
The owner previewed a plan to replace the one-story 1940s Windsor Motel at 51 Canada Street with a two-story building on the same footprint, going from 21 to 28 rooms with some parking underneath. This was a sketch review, with no vote. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Lake George Village Planning Board
Rooftop solar panels (124 on the agenda) were approved as amended for the Boathouse Restaurant at 2 Lower Amherst Street. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Lake George Village Planning Board
Signs for the Lake George Beach Club at 3 Lower Montcalm Street were approved with conditions over one dissent. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Lake George Mirror
The Lake George Land Conservancy bought 53 acres of former farmland in the hills above Northwest Bay, creating the Federal Hill Forest preserve next to its Sundew Pond property. News story · Bolton
Lake George Village Zoning Board
Village ZBA approved sign relief for the Lake George Steamboat Co. at 57 Beach Road; the Planning Board approved the sign on June 17. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Lake George Town Zoning Board
Sun Valley Apartments sought relief to add two buildings (16 units) to its 40-unit complex at 72 Sun Valley Drive, for 56 apartments; the Zoning Board tabled it. From the board’s minutes · Town of Lake George
2 items · May 14, 2026 to May 21, 2026
Capri Village won site plan approval for a garage, patio, privacy fence and a larger sign at 3926 Lake Shore Drive. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Planning Board
Bolton ZBA granted setback relief for Capri Village's new garage and privacy fence at 3926 Lake Shore Drive. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Zoning Board
Lake George Town Planning Board
Depe Dene Resort won approval to add nine waterfront seating areas, seven with fire pits, linked by about 510 ft of path along its north shoreline. From the board’s minutes · Town of Lake George
Lake George Village Planning Board
Vero Coffee Roasters won a change of use from retail to open Caffe Vero at 35 Montcalm Street. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Lake George Village Planning Board
Revised signs for DILLIGAF at 273 Canada Street were approved with lighting conditions. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Lake George Village Planning Board
The former Paddles restaurant at 157 Canada Street was approved to become the Lake George Country Store, with conditions on outdoor seating and merchandise; its sign was also approved. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Bolton Planning Board
Bolton Planning Board approved a new commercial marina use at 4826 Lake Shore Drive, conditioned on dark-sky lighting and five parking spaces reserved for dock users. From the board’s minutes · Bolton
3 items · Dec 9, 2025 to Mar 13, 2026
The owners of the 1913 Cooper's Point mansion plan a historically faithful restoration designed by Phinney Design Group, using it mainly for corporate retreats and family gatherings under a tourist-accommodation designation, with state preservation officials reviewing. News story · Lake George Mirror
Green Harbour's homeowners association is opposing plans to turn the Cooper's Point mansion into an 18-bedroom tourist accommodation, citing narrow roads, septic and parking; the applicants asked to push the Planning Board review to March. News story · Glens Falls Chronicle
Owners of the Cooper Point mansion at Green Harbour asked to renovate and expand it as an 18-bedroom tourist accommodation with added parking and a pool; the Planning Board tabled it, and later minutes show state agencies still reviewing it in mid-2026. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Town Planning Board
Lake George Town Planning Board
Planning Board tabled a cluster subdivision that would split an 84-acre Truesdale Hill Road tract into 13 single-family lots plus HOA road and reserve lots. From the board’s minutes · Town of Lake George
Glens Falls Chronicle
A Feb. 25 morning fire heavily damaged Del Lago Restaurant & Bar in Lake George; crews knocked it down in about 20 minutes, but the building needed extensive overhaul. News story · Lake George (area)
4 items · Dec 9, 2025 to Feb 27, 2026
The later phases of Erlowest's expansion depend on whether the Town extends municipal sewer up Lake Shore Drive; otherwise the resort would need on-site treatment. A town decision was expected by May. News story · Glens Falls Chronicle
The formal site plan for the six-phase Erlowest / Sun Castle redevelopment at 3178 Lake Shore Drive went before the Planning Board and was tabled pending further review, including whether town sewer will reach the site. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Town Planning Board
Plans filed with the Town for Erlowest and Sun Castle Resort call for new duplex townhouses and cottages, a bridal/executive retreat with an indoor pool, and a two-level parking structure; the story also outlines the Green Harbour mansion proposal. News story · Glens Falls Chronicle
Sun Castle and Erlowest Resort previewed a six-phase makeover at 3178 Lake Shore Drive covering guest amenities, stormwater and utilities, and added capacity for guests and events. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Town Planning Board
Glens Falls Chronicle
Pilot Knob Marina is back on the market, listed with Davies-Davies at nearly double its 2021 sale price; the listing covers a 0.66-acre lakefront marina with gas docks, launch ramp, slips, service shop and an apartment. News story · Fort Ann
Lake George Village Zoning Board
Pinebrook Motel asked for setback relief to add eight units across two buildings at 2905 Lakeshore Drive, next to English Brook; the ZBA tabled it in December and again in January. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Times Union via Adirondack Explorer
An early-morning fire gutted the upper part of the 115-foot Adirondac cruise boat while it was tied up at its Kurosaka Lane dock in the Village; no one was hurt, crews contained runoff under state spill-response oversight, and the damaged section was expected to be taken apart where it sat. News story · Village of Lake George
Lake George Examiner
A 10-by-24-foot sensory-friendly Santa cottage opened on the Fort William Henry Hotel grounds, built for neurodivergent children and adults who find crowded holiday events overwhelming. News story · Village of Lake George
Bolton Planning Board
Bolton Planning Board approved two new signs for the commercial property at 4982 Lake Shore Drive. From the board’s minutes · Bolton
2 items · Nov 5, 2025 to Nov 19, 2025
Village Planning Board approved The Georgian Resort's remodel at 384 Canada Street. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Village Planning Board
Village ZBA granted shoreline-setback relief so The Georgian Resort can add an elevated walkway as part of its remodel at 384 Canada Street. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Village Zoning Board
2 items · Nov 5, 2025 to Nov 18, 2025
Planning Board approved a pool-area rebuild at 175 E Schroon River Road: one building comes down and a new bathhouse, two pools, a reconfigured patio and a mechanical shed go in. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Town Planning Board
Zoning Board granted the variance needed for the new bathhouse, two pools and patio rebuild at 175 E Schroon River Road. From the board’s minutes · Lake George Town Zoning Board
Lake George Town Planning Board
Planning Board signed off on tearing down a roughly 3,581 sq ft motel building at 2249 State Route 9; the footprint is to be topsoiled and seeded. From the board’s minutes · Town of Lake George
Lake George Town Planning Board
Planning Board approved merging two lots at 3861 Route 9L, removing the existing houses and building six detached tourist-accommodation units served by municipal water and sewer. From the board’s minutes · Town of Lake George
2 items · Oct 9, 2025 to Oct 16, 2025
Bolton Planning Board approved an addition to the Stewart's Shops store at 5004 Lake Shore Drive. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Planning Board
Bolton ZBA granted the variance for enlarging the non-conforming Stewart's Shops building at 5004 Lake Shore Drive. From the board’s minutes · Bolton Zoning Board
2 items · Oct 7, 2025 to Oct 15, 2025
A proposed 30-home luxury subdivision on about 95 acres off County Route 11 in Bolton, under Adirondack Park Agency review, drew wetlands objections from Adirondack Wild; the developer says the layout follows conservation design. News story · Lake George Mirror
The Adirondack Park Agency took public comment on the first phase of a large-scale subdivision application for 30 home lots on 95 acres off County Route 11 in Bolton Landing, each with its own well and septic system and served by private roads; early comments split between environmental objections and support for more local housing. News story · Adirondack Explorer
Lake George Village Planning Board
Village Planning Board approved a new Adirondack Trust Company branch with a drive-through on the former Adirondack Pancake House site at 75-77 Canada Street after state historic-preservation sign-off. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Lake George Village Planning Board
Village Planning Board approved a new exterior facade and a wall sign for the DILLIGAF business at 271 Canada Street. From the board’s minutes · Village of Lake George
Glens Falls Chronicle
Construction began on a reinterment site and memorial at Lake George Battlefield Park for the remains of 44 Continental soldiers found in 2019 during Village construction, with a Memorial Day 2026 dedication planned. News story · Lake George (area)
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