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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Let CARA shoot for tangible gains

Written February 16th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

CARA, the Albany urban renewal program, is about to take the plunge and decide how to spend up to $3.1 million it planned to borrow this budget year. To help it decide, the city council might look for clues in the online survey it has just concluded. Among the roughly 1,800 people who answered the […]


Want to buy an old church?

Written February 11th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

If you’ve always wanted to spend tons of money on acquiring and restoring an old church, here’s your chance. The city of Albany plans to invite proposals along those lines for a building at Santiam Road and Main Street, which the city bought for a road project but now doesn’t need after all.


Novak loan clears final hurdle

Written December 4th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

There was no debate or discussion when the Albany Revitalization Agency gave final approval Wednesday to a $126,000 loan to help Novak’s Hungarian Restaurant relocate downtown. The agency — actually the city council by another name — had excellent reasons to approve the request, which it had endorsed as part of the Central Albany Revitalization […]


In Albany, a new street of lights

Written November 25th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

As you can see in this video, the downtown segment of Albany’s First Avenue now has new nighttime lighting. Strings of what look like Christmas tree lights have been wound around the trunks of the street trees there and strung partway into the crowns as well. At dusk Monday, the effect was not quite as […]


Aiming at renewal in Hackleman District

Written November 21st, 2013 by Hasso Hering

Albany’s downtown urban renewal program is taking a step to encourage people to buy and restore older homes in city’s Hackleman Historic District east of Lyon Street.


Novak’s move wins CARA backing

Written November 20th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

Rarely has a financing request received as enthusiastic a reception from the Central Albany Revitalization Area advisory board as that of Novak’s Hungarian Restaurant. On Wednesday night the CARA panel unanimously recommended approval of a $126,000 loan to help the business restore the historic storefront at 208 Second Ave. S.W. and move there by next June […]


Novak’s wants to move downtown

Written November 15th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

Here’s an Albany news flash: Novak’s, the Hungarian restaurant that’s become famous up and down the state over the last three decades, hopes to remodel a historic storefront downtown and move there in time to reopen in the new place next June. This was announced Friday when the city of Albany made public the agenda for the […]

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