This future store and gas station is being built just off the Timber Ridge/Knox Butte roundabout in northeast Albany.
Five years after the city of Albany approved the site plan, a developer is building a store and gas station to serve the growing neighborhoods along northeast Knox Butte Road.
The size and prominence of the development, on the northeast quadrant of the Timber Ridge/Knox Butte roundabout, have prompted questions on social media about what is being built.
The site plan approved in 2021 called for a gas station and convenience store. The building permit for the structure covers a 4,028-square-foot US Market and an additional 5,880 square feet of space designated for an unspecified “future tenant.”
Montague Development Inc., of Salem, is the contractor for the $1.3 million construction project.
On its website, the Salem-based US Market chain shows its stores along with Space Age-branded gas stations.
The website also tells of the founding of the chain by brothers Lal and Don Sidhu in Silverton in 1998. Theirs is quite a success story. “At the age of 18 we showed up in America with only $200 in our pockets with a dream to own a business,” they write.
The Albany building permit for this project cost the developer nearly two dozen fees totaling $541,488.
The total included more than $404,000 in street system development charges, based on peak-hour trip generation.
Also included was a school district construction excise tax of $40,800. (hh)
This story has been corrected to make clear that the construction excise tax applied to this project is one that the Albany school district has imposed for years to raise money toward future facilities. The City of Albany’s construction excise tax, passed last year to raise money toward subsidizing affordable housing, took effect this month and did not apply to permits issued before 2026.
What goes into the building’s extra space will depend on what tenants the real estate agent can find.
Whhhhaaaaaaaatttt??? Look it up on readily accessible websites? That’s too much work and I’m too busy with my big, important job. I’d rather speculate on social media or better yet, have you do it for me. One wonders when you’re no longer around, Hasso, and the DH/GT has finally run aground in the media desert, who will spoon feed the populace then? What’s Up(set) Albany? Nextdoor? I shudder.
THAT A WAY ALBANY…$ 541,488 IN TAX’S & PERMITS….WHO NEEDS A GAS TAX..OH MY
Hope this doesn’t run Dari Mart out of business.
Without a stop sign or traffic light there, how do the apartment residents cross the busy street to the store safely?
This is directly next to a roundabout, so residents can easily get across there.
$1.3 million project and their permits/fees was an additional almost 50%. City of Albany is really getting expensive for commercial developers. Hopefully some that the SDC money helps with streets.
These development fees are absolutely insane. They are beyond ridiculous. It’s no wonder that we don’t have more going on.
Is that 1.3 million inclusive of fees or 1.841 million inclusive of fees?
The building permit values the project at $1,349,865.92. Fees are listed separately, including the $404,076.02 for street system development charges.
Nope… it all looks great. The Dairy Mart and the Chevron on 20 is all we had out here and they have been price gouging us for years. I will be taking my business to this new place. This should have been built years ago. Competition is good and maybe the Chevron and the Dairy mart will pick up the pace and provide better service and pricing.
With a cost of 1.8 million, do you really think they will be less expensive than DariMart? Time will tell. On the other hand, aren’t all gas stations less than Chevron.
Contrast this: “The website also tells of the founding of the chain by brothers Lal and Don Sidhu in Silverton in 1998. Theirs is quite a success story. “At the age of 18 we showed up in America with only $200 in our pockets with a dream to own a business,” they write.”
With this: Somalis in Minnesota who came to America 10 years ago who are still on welfare or running scams to defraud the U.S. of billions of dollars.
Don Sidhu is the kind of immigrant I welcome to this country.
Keep consuming your fake news, LIES. Shaking my head. What is coming to this country?!?!?!
Name what he said that is inaccurate.
The 2019 Office of the Legislative Auditor investigation found those claims of Somali fraud to be unsubstantiated.
ARE YOU DAFT, try looking up something in the last 6 years………….
Where’s the nearest APD cruiser going to park? I can see crime issues with that place being so far out of civilization. Or will they be punting that off onto Linn County SD?