Having gotten rid of the old Cumberland Church by giving it to a nonprofit that paid to get it moved away, the city of Albany now has to deal with the hole that was left behind.
You’d think that sooner or later, I’d get tired of watching trains go by. But as you can see, that day has not yet come.
Now that the old Cumberland Church has been moved to its new site, how soon before it becomes available as the community events center its new owners have in mind? Their goal is 2023, but it depends on how much money they can raise how soon.
Scott Lepman, the Albany real estate investor and developer who has tackled several big restoration projects, has come up with an even bigger one. His organization will save the former St. Francis Hotel downtown and also restore the former city hall building if the urban renewal district, CARA, will help him lower the financial risk.
There’s a little paved path across the old Oregon Electric Railway tracks at Burkhart Street in Albany. It’s on one of my bike routes through town, and I spent a few minutes there on October 8, trying to decipher the lettering that graffiti artists had left on the cars.
We throw away too much stuff. That’s because we buy way too much stuff we can’t or won’t reuse. And that is pretty much the story of the Coffin Butte Landfill, which now hopes to win Benton County’s approval for an expansion that would result in a tower of trash even higher than what we […]
Albany ‘business registry’? Council is split
Whether Albany will start a registry of local businesses is still undecided after Monday’s work session of the city council.
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