Albany construction

What’s being built here, you asked

Written February 17th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

A reader’s question sent the bike and me to 2400 Pacific Blvd. S.W. in Albany on Monday afternoon. She had noticed construction activity at the address and wondered what was going on.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: 2400 Pacific S.W., Albany construction, Cache Valley Electric, Pacific Boulevard building

A plan for the corner of Santiam and Main

Written January 24th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 14 responses.

Yohn Baldwin has filed the site plan for a proposed development on the corner of Santiam Road and Main Street in Albany. But whether the project goes ahead may depend on how much the city requires to be done on Main.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: 401 Main Street SE, Albany construction, Albany planning, Benjamen Properties, Cumberland Church site, Main and Santiam, site plan review, Yohn Baldwin

Coming on Queen Avenue, more storage

Written October 5th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

Somebody asked me what was being built just north of the curve of S.E. Queen Ave. I was wondering that myself, so I looked it up.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany construction, Queen Avenue construction, self-storage, storage buildings

What’s that? Another construction site…

Written December 11th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

What are they building there? That’s a question I get now and then, and in the case of 416 Pacific Blvd. S.W. in Albany, the short answer is “a commercial building.”

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany construction, Bob Mitchell, Pacific Boulevard

The changing face of Pacific/Ninth

Written May 6th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

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.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany construction, Auto Zone, Pacific and Ninth, Wendy

Across Pine, it’ll be a church gym

Written September 20th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

Riding around Albany in glorious weather on the last Saturday of summer, I noticed that construction doesn’t necessarily stop on weekends, at least not on the block of Pine Street between Second and Salem avenues.

Posted in: Commentary, News, Videos
Tags: Albany construction, Apostolic Life Center, Woodland Square

Albany briefing: Apartments being built

Written July 29th, 2013 by

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Wondering what the heavy earth-moving is all about between Oak Street and the Periwinkle Bike Path on the north side of Albany’s Queen Avenue? A Salem contractor has been preparing the 3.1-acre site for an 81-unit apartment complex. The city’s planning department approved the site plan for the project in May. According to the plans […]

Posted in: News
Tags: Albany construction, Oak Street Apartments