Albany housing

New rentals in S.E. Albany: Here’s an update

Written November 3rd, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 24 responses.

Thirty-five rental units have been built at Waverly Drive and Grand Prairie Road in Albany. They have looked finished for months yet remain vacant. How come?

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Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Centurion Real Estate Management, Grand Prairie, Waverly Drive, Waverly Town Homes

Wandering around ‘The Banks’ at opening

Written April 15th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 15 responses.

Construction continues at The Banks, the new apartment complex on the Willamette River in Albany. But most of it is finished, and on Friday they held a grand opening.

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Tags: Albany housing, apartments, The Banks, Willamette River

Two new dwellings replace a ruin left by fire

Written April 3rd, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

Here’s another example of how builders are creating new housing in the middle of Albany by making use of existing lots. In this case, a new duplex is taking the place of a small tumbledown house destroyed by fire in 2019.

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Tags: 1027 Seventh, 2019 house fire, Albany housing, new construction, Seventh Avenue

Two years later: A look at completed site

Written March 26th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 22 responses.

The bike occasionally takes me past the 1100 block on Sixth Avenue across from Hackleman Park in central Albany. Last week I noticed how the area has been spruced up with the completion of this building’s conversion to an apartment house.

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Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Hackleman Park, Planning commission, Sixth Avenue, Veal Chair Factory

Tough choice: Who gets part of $1 million?

Written September 8th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

Maybe it wasn’t a favor for the legislature to give Albany $1 million to do something about affordable housing or homelessness. Now the city council has to decide who gets some of the money, and it’s not an easy choice.

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Tags: $1million, affordable housing, Albany housing, apartments, homeless, homeless shelter, homelessness, housing, Hub City Village

107 apartments OK’d at Queen and Geary

Written July 27th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 14 responses.

The southeast corner of Geary Street and Queen Avenue in Albany will look different and busier when a developer goes through with plans for three apartment buildings there.

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Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Geary and Queen, Mega Foods, Paradigm Properties, Perwinkle Creek

Builders build while task force labors on

Written July 19th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 19 responses.

In case you have forgotten, an Albany city committee is still struggling with how to make housing cost less. Meanwhile, builders are going ahead just like they always have — building houses they think they can sell.

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Tags: Albany housing, builders, Henshaw Farm, home builders, Housing Affordability Task Force, Lennar, subdivisions