Albany Business Review: Homebuilder buys Saratoga County land for $5.8M

9.12.2024

"The Malta development is backed by an $8.4 million commercial mortgage from Colonie-based financial institution Pioneer, according to public filing.

Matt Dahl, corporate lending team leader for Pioneer, said the bank had been talking to Michaels Group, which it considers one of its strongest borrowers, about the project for nearly a year.

Pioneer has financed two other further-along projects in Saratoga County by Michaels and Laraway, committing up to $4.5 million in 2020 for a single-family development in Clifton Park and $3.4 million the following year for a townhome project off East High Street in Malta. Both of those developments are being actively marketed, according to Michaels."