In case you were wondering about the long-planned development at Fourth and Calapooia in Albany, another step is now being taken. The foundations for two apartment houses at the corner are being built.
A cloud of dust caught my eye from two blocks away on Wednesday, so I rode the bike to the corner of Fourth Avenue and Calapooia Street. There was dust because a man on a big machine was beginning to excavate the corner lot.
This week it looked like the long-contested redevelopment of this downtown Albany corner could finally begin. But not quite yet.
The two signs on the northeast corner of Fourth and Calapooia in Albany don’t mean anything. The signs were still there Sunday. But the public hearing they advertise was held months ago, and as of last week the corner lot showed no sign of pending development.
The last we heard about a plan to build eight apartments on Fourth Avenue at Calapooia Street was in May, when the Land Use Board of Appeals ruled in an appeal to block the project. Now the builders are back with a request to make this one block of Fourth one-way west, with angled parking […]
Two years ago the Albany Landmarks Commission refused to allow the demolition of three dilapidated old houses at Fourth Avenue and Calapooia Street. On the Tuesday night the same commission turned down a plan for two new buildings on the site as too massive and tall.
At Fourth and Calapooia, a building rises
There’s something new to see at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Calapooia Street in Albany: vertical construction.
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