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Still for sale: Vacant Cumberland lot

Written May 25th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 6 responses.

The city of Albany is hoping to sell the former site of the historic Cumberland Presbyterian Church, a property that the Public Works Department acquired in 2000 for $150,000. But as of today, the vacant lot is still for sale.

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City gets one offer for ex-Cumberland lot

Written May 13th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 11 responses.

Envision a little pocket park at this corner, with parking spaces behind it and three or four businesses in what now is the warehouse at the back.

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Long saga’s next step: Fill the hole and sell it

Written October 23rd, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 14 responses.

Having gotten rid of the old Cumberland Church by giving it to a nonprofit that paid to get it moved away, the city of Albany now has to deal with the hole that was left behind.

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Old thrift store will become offices

Written September 18th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 4 responses.

Albany’s downtown neighborhood where Main Street and Santiam Road meet is about to get another big upgrade with the remodeling of the long-vacant former Salvation Army thrift store. Baldwin General Contracting Inc. has bought the building and, after months of working through zoning and other issues, this week took out a permit to rebuild the structure as […]

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