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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

The King Griff Building’s changing face

Written December 17th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

The northeast corner of Third and Lyon in downtown Albany looked like this today. By next summer, if everything goes according to plan, it will look more like this:


Downtown housing proves hard to build

Written November 29th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

One of these days, but not right away, this lot on Albany’s Third Avenue S.E. may or may not hold eight townhouse-style apartments. That’s what I got out of a long discussion Wednesday by the advisory board of the Central Albany Revitalization Area.


New shelter space taking shape

Written May 16th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Construction is still very much in progress, but George Matland is confident that the new Signs of Victory mission in Albany will be finished in time for homeless people to find shelter there by the end of June.


 
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