Four downtown organizations are sharing in the last batch of grants handed out by the Albany Revitalization Agency, which governs the CARA urban renewal program.
The Albany City Council is getting ready to sell a one-acre lot off the Water Avenue railroad track, a parcel the city managed to get for nothing in 2013.
It’s encouraging to see the first houses going up in Edgewater Village, the planned development sandwiched between Albany’s Water Avenue and the Willamette River. It signals the continuing transformation of an old part of Albany that had been a wasteland for some time even before the former packing plant on this site burned in 2006.
Here’s a look at the saxophone player I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. He had been entertaining passersby off and on at the North Albany Village shopping center, and at the time, when I wanted to get his picture I could not find him. Somebody had complained about him on Facebook, but I liked his music and I […]
Former railroad lot still waiting for a use
On a bike ride along the Albany riverfront Sunday night, I stopped at a vacant lot the city has owned since 2013.
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