Does Albany need or want a whole bunch of new buildings including tall apartment houses east of Interstate 5?
A proposal to add around a thousand housing units on Albany’s east side is sailing through the city’s approval process without anybody asking questions related to growth.
Albany city officials are doing what they can to fill vacant land east of Interstate 5 with people and housing. The city council took two steps toward that goal this week.
Albany city officials have unveiled drawings of a concept for a development that may create about a thousand more dwelling units east of Interstate 5.
In ‘Colonia,’ seeing the future east of I-5
East of I-5 and south of Santiam Highway, you can see the beginnings of what that part of Albany may look like some years from now, with multi-story apartment blocks covering what now is open land.
Tags: Colonia del Valle Prospeo, Creel Avenue, East Albany Town Center, Farmworker Housing Development