Monday’s glorious October sunshine found me and the bike, as usual, on the Albany riverfront, where something new has just opened up.
A big vacant lot owned by the city of Albany on the Water Avenue rail line will likely stay vacant for the foreseeable future. The city council Wednesday took no action toward disposing of the property or doing anything with it.
The reconstruction of Water Avenue in Albany is moving along, and the shape of a new traffic pattern has become obvious at the street’s western end.
For the last few months a tattered American flag was flying over the Albany building owned by the Fraternal Order of Eagles at 127 Broadalbin St. N.W. On Sunday the flag was gone, and so was the pole on which it had hung.
Riding my bike along the Albany riverfront, I’m on the Dave Clark Path several times a week. And lately I’ve noticed that west of the Wheelhouse Building a new gap in the path has opened up.
If you look up from the boardwalk on the Dave Clark Riverfront Path, you get a dramatic view of the underside of the Ellsworth Street Bridge across the Willamette River. And if you look down, you see that the boardwalk needs repairs.
Water Avenue reopens as a plaza street
Friday should have been a red-letter day in Albany. The western four blocks of Water Avenue on the city’s riverfront were open again after being closed since April so the street could be transformed.
Tags: Albany waterfront, Water Avenue, Waterfront Project