It may take another two months or so to finish repairs to Novak’s, the famous Hungarian restaurant in downtown Albany that was damaged by fire and smoke on Feb. 27.
CARA still coy about Fargo offers, but …
Written May 16th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Albany’s urban renewal agency continues to be shy about naming the parties that offered to acquire the former Wells Fargo branch in the heart of downtown. But it plans to decide on selling the building to one of them the next time the CARA advisory board meets, which is June 19.
City wants more proposals on vacant bank
Written April 17th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Albany city officials have received a couple of competing proposals for what to do with the former Wells Fargo Bank downtown, and they are looking for more.
Albany launches downtown parking study
Written February 10th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
The Albany City Council thinks the city would benefit from a downtown parking study, and it has commissioned one at a contracted cost of no more than $42,803.
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Tags: Albany downtown, ARA, ARA parking study, CARA, parking study, Rick Williams Consulting
Tags: Albany downtown, ARA, ARA parking study, CARA, parking study, Rick Williams Consulting
A traffic change: Dotted line turns solid
Written December 13th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
ODOT has followed through on changing an important lane marking on Ellsworth Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues. Now let’s see if Albany drivers get the hint.
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Tags: Albany downtown, Albany traffic, Ellsworth Street, Highway 20, highway lane markings, ODOT, Oregon highways, solid white line, traffic control change
Tags: Albany downtown, Albany traffic, Ellsworth Street, Highway 20, highway lane markings, ODOT, Oregon highways, solid white line, traffic control change
Downtown housing proves hard to build
Written November 29th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
One of these days, but not right away, this lot on Albany’s Third Avenue S.E. may or may not hold eight townhouse-style apartments. That’s what I got out of a long discussion Wednesday by the advisory board of the Central Albany Revitalization Area.
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Tags: Albany downtown, CARA loan, Downtown housing, Fortmiller Building, Lepman brothers
Tags: Albany downtown, CARA loan, Downtown housing, Fortmiller Building, Lepman brothers
Albany streetscape: Now that it’s done …
Written October 12th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
After dinner at Taqueria Alonzo on Friday night, I took a few minutes to walk around the downtown streetscape improvements whose completion the city of Albany will observe at noon today.
Streetscape benches, a placement dilemma
Written September 15th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Imagine the plight of a streetscape designer who’s supposed to place a few benches on the newly rebuilt sidewalks of Albany’s downtown. How to position this street furniture so it is inviting and does future bench sitters some good?
Are we there yet? Not quite, but close
Written July 18th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Wondering when — or indeed if — street work in downtown Albany will ever be finished? The answer is Friday, sort of.
Sidewalk construction poked a hole
It seems like forever that the sidewalk has been torn up on the northwest corner of Broadalbin Street and First Avenue in downtown Albany. What happened, why is it taking so long to make repairs?
Tags: Albany downtown, First and Broadalbin, sidewalk over basements