Decorating Albany’s new Main Street roundabout with a circular wall and wrought-iron fence would cost nearly $130,000, and the city staff thinks the benefit is not worth the expense.
A milestone at Edgewater Village
Written February 10th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
At last: After years of planning and many delays, work has begun on the first house to be built at Edgewater Village, the residential development on which rest great hopes for the redevelopment of Albany’s riverfront. (It’s the sort of thing you notice when you take advantage of the first dry day in a long while and […]
Main Street circle: Just landscape it
Written February 4th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Since it was completed last September, the new roundabout on Albany’s rebuilt Main Street has been tempoarily marked with orange plastic while the city tries to decide whether to get fancy with decorating the place. Nobody asked me, but I would put in a tree and some low-maintenance shrubs and forget about anything that costs tens […]
A musical kind of place?
Written January 30th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Oboes? Flutes? Or are we talking clarinets or even saxophones? Hard to tell from the announcement that the Woodland Square housing development in Albany now will have a new name: Woodwind Apartments.
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Tags: CARA, IHI, Innovative Housing Inc., Woodland Square, Woodwind Apartments
Tags: CARA, IHI, Innovative Housing Inc., Woodland Square, Woodwind Apartments
Name for Woodland Square? Not yet
Written January 5th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
If you’re wondering about the new name of the Albany housing development at Salem Avenue and Pine Street, you’ll have to wonder a while longer.
New life for an old church?
Written January 1st, 2015 by Hasso Hering
This may be the year someone rescues the old church at Albany’s Main Street and Santiam Road before it falls down. Two parties have submitted proposals to acquire the city-owned property at 401 S.E. Main and do something with it, and the city staff is analyzing the offers.
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Tags: Albany City Council, CARA, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Main Street project, Santiam Road
Tags: Albany City Council, CARA, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Main Street project, Santiam Road
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Roundabout: no wall or fence
You can quit worrying about fancy embellishments at the roundabout completed last year on Albany’s Main Street. The advisory board of the Central Albany Revitalization Area Wednesday unanimously accepted a staff recommendation to spend no CARA money on the place.
Tags: CARA, Main Street roundabout