Back on March 19, Albany’s downtown urban renewal board voted to support a project to renovate a tired old building on Third Avenue and build four townhouses next door. Since then the project has stalled because even though Albany wants more people to live and work downtown, city zoning and development codes say these townhouses-cum-offices can’t […]
Every day for the last few years, thousands of drivers have passed the vacant lot where a Mexican restaurant used to stand between Albany’s Pacific Boulevard and Ninth Avenue. This week we saw something new: Trucks and excavation equipment where for a long time only weeds were to be seen.
If you’re a rail buff like me, you’ll no doubt be watching TV on Monday night when Oregon Public Broadcasting presents a program on the DeAutremont brothers’ murders of four crew members of a Southern Pacific express on the Siskiyou line in 1923. And you may be interested to learn this rail line, unused since […]
The Oregon House on Thursday passed a bill that’s supposed to clarify how bike trails can be built on land zoned on exclusive farm use. Too bad it doesn’t really clarify much.
In their eagerness to legislate against guns and their owners, Democrats in the Oregon legislature never seem to be concerned about the practical side of life, meaning enforcement of the laws they pass. The latest example is Senate Bill 525, intended to force persons prone to domestic violence to get rid of any firearms they […]
It looks like things are about to get going on the Albany site where Lowe’s plans to build a 125,000-square-foot home improvement and garden center. The city of Albany’s building permit for the project has been ready since Friday and on Tuesday was still waiting for a company representative to pick it up.
Station-Swanson link: the last piece
For a few weeks now, a contractor for ODOT has been building a new walking or “multi-use” link between Albany Station and Swanson Park underneath the Pacific Boulevard overpass. As the last piece of the depot renovation it’s a welcome development, even though it also makes you wonder about transportation priorities.
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