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.
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.
As you will have noticed if you have driven on Gibson Hill Road in North Albany, vertical construction started this month on Riverwood Crossing, the 80-lot “middle housing” development approved last year.
The Albany city government is about to launch another one of the periodic exercises of trying to figure out if there’s a better use for the the city’s airport.
Two buildings containing eight three-story townhouses are under construction in the 200 block of Southeast Third Avenue, the latest project by the Lepman organization to increase housing in and near Albany’s downtown.
What’s behind demand for more housing
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?
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