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Building 2: The deal on its demolition

Written September 8th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

The federal government will go ahead and demolish an old and dilapidated building at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), but it is considering steps to preserve two other buildings on the Albany campus.


An old building, allowed to run down

Written October 12th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

The U.S. Department of Energy intends to demolish an old building off Liberty Street, on the campus of the former U.S. Bureau of Mines. The question is why has this four-story office building been left to rot to the point that the government wants to tear it down.


Checking out the camas on Albany’s federal site

Written April 24th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Today’s comment by Tom Cutsforth — on the story about the HIP construction, below — sent me back on the road to check out the flowering camas in the meadow south of the former Bureau of Mines. The result, such as it is, you see here.


 
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