On a bike ride Tuesday I had a chance to check in on the ambitious project to restore and enlarge what is said to be the oldest surviving wood-framed commercial building in downtown Albany.
Three years ago, the Albany community development director approved a site plan for a 107-unit apartment complex between Geary Street on one side and Periwinkle Creek on the other. Now, the Creekside Meadows apartments are built, and tenants have moved in.
For the last few decades, 1433 Santiam Road in Albany was the address of Owl Hoot Ornaments, the place to go if you wanted a concrete bird bath, say, or even a garden gnome. The business is gone, and an apartment complex is proposed to be built there instead.
The Albany Community Development Department has approved the site plan for a 54-unit apartment project on the south side of Creel Avenue, a residential street one block south of the Walmart Supercenter.
On Nov. 7 the Albany Landmarks Commission heard from an applicant that the city had fined him $301,000 for failing to get building permits for fixing up an old apartment house. The fine has been sharply reduced, but there’s a story here.
There’s something new to see at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Calapooia Street in Albany: vertical construction.
And now, returning to Willetta and 53rd
Plans are just plans, in case you forgot, and plans are subject to change. One example is playing out on property at the corner of 53rd Avenue and Willetta Street in southwest Albany.
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