Albany riverfront

City adds to riverfront consulting contract

Written January 19th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

After a debate about transparency and accountability, the seven members of the Albany City Council voted 5-2 Wednesday to add to the consulting contract for the city’s project to redevelop part of the Willamette riverfront.

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Tags: Albany Revitalization Agency, Albany riverfront, Albany urban renewal, Willamette River

Increase sought in CARA’s waterfront contract

Written January 17th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

Albany’s urban renewal program has been working on plans for redoing the Willamette riverfront for about three years. Now the city is getting ready to take the next step toward carrying out the plans.

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Tags: Albany council, Albany riverfront, CARA, Dave Clark Path, Monteith Riverpark, urban renewal, Walker/Macy, Water Avenue, Willamette River

City approves plan for riverfront lot

Written January 2nd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

Albany has approved a site plan for redoing a Water Avenue parking lot in order to make it fit in with the planned riverfront redevelopment. The estimated cost is $182,000.

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Tags: Albany riverfront, CARA, Ellsworth Street, Lyon Street, parking lot, riverfront redevelopment, urban renewal, Willamette River

Riverfront project includes work on crossings

Written November 20th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 13 responses.

Plans for Albany’s riverfront call for improving crossings on the Water Avenue rail line, opening new ones and closing others. But the new or improved crossings won’t have to be protected with automatic arms.

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Tags: Albany riverfront, ARA, CARA, rail crossings, Walker/Macy, Water Avenue, Waterfront Project

On the riverfront: Treatment for opioid addicts

Written October 8th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Based on a notation on a remodeling permit, I reported in April that an “outpatient addiction treatment facility” was going into the historic Avery Mill Building on the Albany riverfront. Today I found out a little more.

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Tags: Acadia Healthcare, Albany downtown, Albany riverfront, Avery Mill Building, historic building, opioid use disorder program, treatment center

Plan to increase parking on riverfront lot

Written August 28th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

The Albany Planning Division has invited public comment on what seems to be the first work proposed as part of the city’s Waterfront Project — making changes on Water Avenue between the two highway bridges including the city-owned parking lot there.

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Tags: Albany riverfront, Albany Waterfront Project, floodplain review, Planning Divisionm, Water Avenue

Glancing at the river from an aging pier

Written August 15th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

On the wooden pier jutting out over the Willamette River at the foot of Broadalbin Street in Albany on Sunday night, this question asked itself: When is this structure going to get some work done to make it last another 30 years?

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Tags: Albany riverfront, CARA, river overlooks, Willamette River, wooden piers riverfront project