The long-vacant former restaurant building at 1439 Queen Ave. is gone, and the question now is what will take its place.
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.
‘Franklin Reserve:’ Billboard shows the plan
An errand last month took me along Airport Road in Albany, where I was surprised to see a billboard that said the site of a long-planned housing development was for sale.
Tags: Airport Road, development plan, Franklin Avenue, Franklin Reserve, housing, land use