As usual, seeing earth-moving equipment on a big piece of vacant land on North Albany Road has prompted questions on Facebook and elsewhere: What’s going to be built there?
It was five years ago, in July 2019, that leaders of a new nonprofit in Albany were telling me about their plans for Hub City Village. Now they’re about to celebrate reaching their goal.
Not much has happened at Riverwood Crossing, the 80-lot townhouse project in North Albany, since a referee rejected an appeal and affirmed the City of Albany’s approval of the development just before the Fourth of July.
For a reason shrouded in the mist of long ago, the City of Albany owns three lots in the same block as the Albany Helping Hands homeless shelter. The shelter has an idea of how the lots could serve a useful purpose, and it’s not to house people in ragtag tents.
The first thing I noticed when I stopped by the Hub City Village construction site last Saturday was the concrete pool to the right of the entrance.
Just a quick reminder of an obvious fact: Just because the City of Albany approves new housing does not mean that new housing will be built, at least not right away.
Obie project: The option price & likely timeline
One or more of three city-owned parking lots on Albany’s Water Avenue may be sold for construction of apartments or other multi-unit buildings, but it will be some time before anything is actually built.
Tags: housing, MUPTE, Obie, option agreement, Water Avenue