Malta, NY

Malta's Landmarks

Some notable places here include...

• The Malta Town Park

  

  The Malta Community Park is located in a forest of pine trees. The sandy plain area, which used to be an old glacial lake, is the active recreational area of the park. A nature trail follows the valley of a small stream where there is an abundance of wildflowers, ferns, mosses, and other vegetation. The paved trail to this park is the Parade Ground Trail.

• The Malta Drive-In Theatre

  

  The Malta Drive-In Theatre has been in continuous operation since 1949 and we are celebrating our 70th anniversary! Located at 2785 State Route 9 in Malta, 1 mile south of Northway exits 13S. The theatre is easily identified by its large flashing marquee, and is generally open April through October.

• or The Albany-Saratoga Speedway here in Malta...

  

  Albany-Saratoga Speedway is a 4/10 mile dirt stock car race track with a long and storied history in the Capital District region of New York. It is conveniently located on Route 9 in Malta NY, and has been continuously hosting stock car races since 1965.

Malta used to be a place with a whole lot of wide open space and fresh air, but since the arrival of Global Foundries new manufacturing facility in 2009, it has become a hotspot for endless development.

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  Before that time, most of Malta looked like this...A quiet town with few businesses and a lot of forest and fields.

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  In 2009, Global Foundries began construction on their "Fab 8" facility in Malta.

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  Construction was finally completed in 2012, at which point they began mass production to supply AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) with CPU Wafers for its Zen line of microprocessors used in the Ryzen, Threadripper and Epyc lines of CPUs.

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  There's no denying all of the growth and development Global Foundries brought with it to Malta. During it's construction, countless new restaurants and other businesses began to pop up all around town in anticipation of the expectant flux of new workers and general commerce coming to the area.

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  Additionally, and for the same reason, a vast number of new condominiums were built around town to accomodate the company and it's workers. However, many of the town's citizens couldn't help but notice the equally massive influx noise and traffic, as well as the vast deforestation that had taken place there.

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