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.
Tough choice: Who gets part of $1 million?
Written September 8th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
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
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
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
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
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
Tags: apartments, housing, Marion Street, multiple-family housing, Spies Real Estate Group, te, zone change
Fourth and Calapooia: Ignore the old signs
Written December 19th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
The two signs on the northeast corner of Fourth and Calapooia in Albany don’t mean anything. The signs were still there Sunday. But the public hearing they advertise was held months ago, and as of last week the corner lot showed no sign of pending development.
The changing scene near Bowman Park
Written November 26th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
If you haven’t been to Bowman Park in Albany since the summer, you may be surprised, the next time you go, by how the view at the entrance to the park has changed.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Bowman Park, riverfront path, The Banks apartments, Willamette River
Tags: Albany housing, apartments, Bowman Park, riverfront path, The Banks apartments, Willamette River
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‘The Banks’ honors indigenous people
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.
Tags: apartments, Calapooians, Indians, Indigenous people, land use, River View Holdings, The Banks, Willamette River