This boardwalk, part of Albany’s Dave Clark Path, was built to skirt a restaurant that perched on the Willamette riverbank below the Ellsworth Street Bridge. The restaurant burned down years ago, but the path still winds around where it sat.
On the downtown beat: 1st to move from First
Written June 22nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
There’s a development in what started years ago as the “cheese grater” story, but it has nothing to do with the big aluminum front that hides the facade of one of the oldest buildings in downtown Albany.
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Tags: 1st Hand Seconds, cheese grater, Colleen Anderson, downtown Albany, Mercy House
Tags: 1st Hand Seconds, cheese grater, Colleen Anderson, downtown Albany, Mercy House
Parking outside the lines: What’s too far?
Written March 4th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
If you park your car on downtown Albany streets on weekdays, it goes without saying that it’s best to park inside the pavement markings and not risk a ticket by straying outside. But what about being just a little outside? And how little is too much?
‘Cheese grater’? That project’s off
Written January 3rd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
The fabled “cheese grater” on Albany’s First Avenue — a sign of progress in the 1960s and now considered an architectural atrocity — is staying up there, at least for now.
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Tags: 415 W. First Avenue, CARA, cheese grater, downtown Albany, Mercy House
Tags: 415 W. First Avenue, CARA, cheese grater, downtown Albany, Mercy House
Downtown signs: Which way to turn
Written August 10th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Strangers wandering around downtown Albany on foot now have handsome signs to tell them where to go. If they can see the signs, that is.
Bright lights blazing on Third
Written December 9th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
The new lights being installed downtown are certainly bright, even if they illuminate only an empty street as, in this case, three blocks of Third Avenue. Named for the shape of the fixtures, the new “double acorn” street lights are part of the $8.5 million downtown streetscape improvement project funded by CARA, the Central Albany […]
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Tags: CARA, catenary lights, double acorn lights, downtown Albany, streetscape
Tags: CARA, catenary lights, double acorn lights, downtown Albany, streetscape
Lights in the rain: Watching the show
Being perhaps too easily impressed, I was interested in the light show on Albany’s Second Avenue on Thursday night. So I turned the camera on.
Tags: Albany weather, downtown Albany, Oregon rain