
It would be interesting to know who has made offers to buy and develop the lot at 300 West First Ave. in Albany, the site of the former and now demolished downtown branch of Wells Fargo Bank.
The first signs appeared last week that 107 apartments planned off Geary Street near Queen Avenue are now going to get built.
If you were waiting till Saturday to return your green bags of empty containers at the Albany Bottle Drop, you were out of luck.
A question was circulating among people with their eyes open in downtown Albany over the last few days: What’s with all those numbers in the windows of the former St. Francis Hotel?
It was four years ago that “1st Hand Seconds,” a downtown women’s second-hand clothing shop with a mission, moved from one historic Albany address on First Avenue to another, on Second. Now it’s ready to celebrate the remodeling of its 1929 building with a Saturday open house.
A facelift for the old post office/city hall
If you’ve wandered around downtown Albany, as I was last week, you may have noticed that things are happening with the old city hall at Second Avenue and Broadalbin Street.
Tags: downtown, Federal Building, Lepman, old city hall., Sears warehouse