It was in the spring two years ago that an old broken Allis Chalmers tractor caught my eye on the south side of Ellingson Road opposite Lochner Road, at the south end of Albany.
Sitting in Albany traffic on a weekday afternoon, I sometimes wonder where all these people are coming from and where are they going?
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.
What is it that drives the demand for ever more housing in Oregon even while deaths of residents far outnumber births? The obvious answer is that people are moving in from out of state, but why?
If the developers follow through on their approved plans, a 4.2-acre parcel of vacant land just south of the Albany Public Library will become a tightly packed neighborhood of single-family cottages.
For the last few decades, 1433 Santiam Road in Albany was the address of Owl Hoot Ornaments, the place to go if you wanted a concrete bird bath, say, or even a garden gnome. The business is gone, and an apartment complex is proposed to be built there instead.
Former restaurant building has been razed
The long-vacant former restaurant building at 1439 Queen Ave. is gone, and the question now is what will take its place.
Tags: 1439 Queen, housing, Moises Moreno, Ralph's, residential zoning