The digging for Albany’s Big Dig will start on June 12. A week before that, workers for Emery & Sons Construction Group will start getting equipment in place for the $8 million project to reconstruct and spruce up several downtown streets.
Back-in parking: A matter of inches
Written April 6th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
So how’s Albany’s new back-in angled parking working out? OK, I guess, but I’m getting a little worried about the new trees the city just paid to have planted.
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Tags: Albany Post Office, Albany streetscape, angled parking, back-in parking, diagonal parking
Tags: Albany Post Office, Albany streetscape, angled parking, back-in parking, diagonal parking
Tree cutters at work downtown
Written February 4th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
The cutting down of more than 100 street trees in downtown Albany has begun. No great news here, just noting the start of yet another early phase of the $8.4 million streetscape improvement program taking place this year.
Not good enough? But it works
Written January 24th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
This, in case you can’t tell, is the intersection of Ellsworth Street and Sixth Avenue in Albany. It’s also the scene of what is shaping up as a big waste of public money.
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Tags: Albany Fire Department, Albany streetscape, fire signal, ODOT, Sixth and Ellsworth
Tags: Albany Fire Department, Albany streetscape, fire signal, ODOT, Sixth and Ellsworth
Goodbye trees; you’ll be replaced
Written January 6th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
It’s possible that what starts next week will become known as the great Albany tree massacre of 2017. But in a few years the massacre may be forgotten as a whole bunch of new and — one hopes — more stately trees grace downtown streets.
Downtown street loan: $8.4 million
Written October 19th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Albany will borrow $8.4 million from the state of Oregon to pay for upgrading several downtown streets. The urban renewal advisory board learned Wednesday that the city’s request for the money had been approved, and the city council, acting as the Albany Redevelopment Agency, voted unanimously to approve the deal.
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‘Catenary’ or not: More city lights
What’s that lamp doing up there? That’s what an acquaintance of mine wondered as he and I emerged from the downtown Carnegie Library on Monday.
Tags: Albany streetscape, CARA, CARA downtown, catenary lights, streetscape