Here is an aerial photo that shows what Washington Avenue Extension and Rapp Road-area looked like in early 1970s, after construction of Washington Avenue Extension before many businesses were located in this area.
Save the Pine Bush fought development of this hotel next to butterfly hill in the Albany Pine Bush. http://www.savethepinebush.org/action/Hotel.html
Albany/Colonie/Guilderland, NY, 1952 - The area around Exit 24 during initial construction of the Thruway Uploaded by Richard Welty. Get the geo-referenced image here: https://mapwarper.net/maps/44102
While the Stewarts is new, that site was previously developed as shown through this archive of aerial photos.