Twenty-nine-year-old Jeff Mirel has an ambitious plan to turn a long-vacant, dilapidated former school in a rough neighborhood into an arts incubator. The way he sees it, the project could help revitalize the neighborhood around North Swan and 2nd streets in Albany. "It’s all about the lens you’re looking through. I don’t see the broken glass. I don’t see the rust. . . . I see what it could be. That’s why blight is so devastating. If all you see is the rust, the holes, the weeds, it’s very demoralizing. We need to see beyond that, what all this could be, he said. A view of downtown Albany can be seen through the window behind him.