Just for the heck of it, I went by the surplus lot at 370 Burkhart St. S.E. that the Albany City Council sold last year with the idea that housing might be built there. Here’s a video report:
More housing. That’s what may be in store for a vacant property the city of Albany owns along the old Oregon Electric Railway track on Water Avenue.
Does Albany need another local tax in order to promote “affordable housing”? It seems unlikely, but evidently that’s part of what a newly formed city task force is going to talk about.
If you haven’t been to Bowman Park in Albany since the summer, you may be surprised, the next time you go, by how the view at the entrance to the park has changed.
Albany’s city planning division has just approved a site plan for a set of 16 “townhome-style multifamily units” on the south side of town. The plans are a departure from the single-family development pattern that dominates land use farther west along Southwest 53rd Avenue.
As drivers on Columbus Street south of Albany know, construction is well under way on the start of the Henshaw Farm subdivision, a big new housing development at the corner of Columbus and Ellingson Road. The one novel item I noticed Sunday was a bit of green pavement at the entrance to one of the […]
‘Honey Grove’ clears planning commission
Here you can watch me taking a chance on reporting that something happened before it actually happened:
Tags: 120 apartments, 41 houses, Albany housing, comprehensive plan amendment, Conser and Sons, Honey Grove, Planning commission, Three Lakes Road, zone changes