Ferry Street

Chemical plant planned on Ferry Street

Written November 14th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 33 responses.

The City of Albany’s planning division is reviewing a site plan for a new chemical manufacturing plant a Corvallis company intends to build at 2435 Ferry St. S.W.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany development code, chemical plant, Ferry Street, fluorine, industrial plant, Valliscor

Queen Avenue repaving almost finished

Written October 19th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Traffic should soon be able to get back on Albany’s Queen Avenue from Pacific Boulevard as a contractor winds up a $4 million reconstruction and repaving project.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany streets, Ferry Street, Marion Street, North Santiam Paving, Pacific Boulevard, paving, Queen Avenue

Council rejects schools’ request on driveway

Written June 14th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

The Albany City Council Wednesday denied a request by Greater Albany Public Schools to let bus barn employees routinely drive through a residential neighborhood to get to and from work.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany schools, bus barn, bus barn access, bus garage, conditional use permit, Ferry Street, Lyon Street

Later this year, major work along Queen

Written January 11th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

This summer, get ready for a big reconstruction project on the west end of Queen Avenue, a key traffic route in Albany.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Ferry Street, Pacific Boulevard, pavement rehab, Queen Avenue, railroad crossing, repaving, utility work, water line

Ex-postal annex has found new use

Written May 10th, 2016 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

For years the U.S. Postal Service paid about $10,000 a month in rent on an empty Albany building for which it no longer had a use, but those days now are gone.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Post Office, Community services Consortium, Ferry Street, U.S. Postal Service