Albany housing

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

An infill project on Water Avenue

Written July 12th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

Talk about infill! That’s the idea of building on vacant lots surrounded by established uses, and the latest proposal by Albany developer Scott Lepman certainly qualifies.

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Tags: Albany apartments, Albany housing, Glorietta Bay, infill, Scott Lepman, Water Avenue

Would lower fees make houses affordable?

Written May 9th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

In the interest of making houses more “affordable,” the Albany City Council seems inclined to lower systems development charges on small new single-family dwellings and raise them on big ones. But “affordable” is not a firm number, so whether the idea works is impossible to predict.

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Tags: affordable housing, Albany council, Albany housing, housing, impact fees, systems development charges

‘Opera House Apartments’ getting close

Written April 13th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

The new Opera House Apartments in downtown Albany have been in the works for years. Now the long-running transformation of the building at 222 First Avenue S.E. looks like it’s nearing the finish line.

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Tags: 222 First Ave. S.E., Albany housing, Opera House Apartments, Scott Lepman, Spruce Apartments