Cold rain did not exactly make Wednesday a great day for riding bike, but I managed to get out during an afternoon break in the storm.
Three years ago, the Albany community development director approved a site plan for a 107-unit apartment complex between Geary Street on one side and Periwinkle Creek on the other. Now, the Creekside Meadows apartments are built, and tenants have moved in.
Hoping to promote less expensive housing, one of the first things the new Albany City Council will do next month is to add a city tax on new construction valued at more than $50,000.
On a bike ride on a warm and sunny Tuesday afternoon, this new house with a for-sale sign out front attracted my attention. It looked particularly spiffy and neat, so I stopped to take a photo.
With all the agitation about housing growth in Albany, a three-story apartment house being built at 650 First Ave. S.E. got my attention last week.
Criss-crossing Albany on a bike, I often stop and look at construction sites, especially those where new housing has just been finished or is still being built.
And now, returning to Willetta and 53rd
Plans are just plans, in case you forgot, and plans are subject to change. One example is playing out on property at the corner of 53rd Avenue and Willetta Street in southwest Albany.
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