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Just checking on Burkhart Street lot

Written September 4th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

For a decade now, the vacant lot at 370 Burkhart St. S.E. in Albany has made an appearance on this website just about once a year.  Maybe one of these years something will actually happen there.


Only development on this lot: Taller weeds

Written September 29th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Once a year or so curiosity and the bike take me to 370 Burkhart St. S.E. in Albany. I go there to check if anything has happened at the address since I first wrote about it nine years ago.


At Burkhart address, no change visible yet

Written February 19th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Just for the heck of it, I went by the surplus lot at 370 Burkhart St. S.E. that the Albany City Council sold last year with the idea that housing might be built there. Here’s a video report:


This Albany lot proves impossible to sell

Written October 13th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

What has happened with the empty lot and water tank at 370 Burkhart St. since the Albany City Council voted to sell it last winter? Not much. The property remains as unused as it has for decades.


‘Affordable housing’ — Not on this lot

Written June 15th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

A surplus city-owned lot at 370 Burkhart Street was considered for developing “affordable housing” in Albany. But the idea foundered on the likely cost of clearing the property of a decommissioned water reservoir.


 
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