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Hearings set on new apartment complex

Written January 16th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

Owners of the former Mega Foods supermarket property are asking the City of Albany to approve dividing the 4.8-acre tract and to rezone the southern section to allow construction of 42 apartments.

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Tags: apartments, Mega Foods, Megainvestments, Periwinkle Creek, zoning

Affordable housing: A couple of projects

Written December 26th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

Everybody these days is talking about the need for affordable housing in Albany. In that connection, a couple of things are going on.

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Tags: affordable housing, apartments, farmworker housing, Farmworker Housing Development Corp., housing, Linn-Benton Housing Authority, subsidized housing, workforce housing

‘The Banks’ honors indigenous people

Written October 24th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

Like every place in the mid-valley, the site of The Banks, a 120-unit apartment complex nearing completion on the Willamette River in Albany, is built on land once occupied by indigenous people.

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Tags: apartments, Calapooians, Indians, Indigenous people, land use, River View Holdings, The Banks, Willamette River

Riverfront beat: Taking a look at The Banks

Written October 3rd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

They’ve installed bike racks at The Banks, the 120-unit apartment complex under construction on the Willamette River near Bowman Park in Albany. So things are looking up.

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Tags: apartments, bike racks, housing, The Banks, Willamette River

Tough choice: Who gets part of $1 million?

Written September 8th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

Maybe it wasn’t a favor for the legislature to give Albany $1 million to do something about affordable housing or homelessness. Now the city council has to decide who gets some of the money, and it’s not an easy choice.

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Tags: $1million, affordable housing, Albany housing, apartments, homeless, homeless shelter, homelessness, housing, Hub City Village

107 apartments OK’d at Queen and Geary

Written July 27th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 14 responses.

The southeast corner of Geary Street and Queen Avenue in Albany will look different and busier when a developer goes through with plans for three apartment buildings there.

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Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Geary and Queen, Mega Foods, Paradigm Properties, Perwinkle Creek

On Marion Street, plans for more housing

Written April 29th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

Owners of about 6 acres of vacant land on the west side of Southeast Marion Street in Albany are asking for a zone change as they prepare to build attached housing there.

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Tags: apartments, housing, Marion Street, multiple-family housing, Spies Real Estate Group, te, zone change