Ninth and Jackson

Council rejects top bid, wants more money

Written June 25th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 29 responses.

Wanting more money, the Albany City Council Wednesday turned down a company’s offer to buy three vacant city-owned lots so the business could expand.

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Tags: Albany City Council, city lots, Helping Hands, Ninth and Jackson, Van Vleet Meat

A closed meeting to deliberate sale of lots?

Written June 21st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 14 responses.

The Albany City Council will hold a public hearing on June 25 before possibly selling three surplus properties near the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street, close to the Helping Hands homeless shelter and the Pacific Boulevard overpass.

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Tags: city property, closed meetings, Helping Hands, homeless shelter, industrial zoning, Ninth and Jackson, pubic property, surplus real estate

What to do with these city-owned lots?

Written September 28th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

Two parties have declared their interest in obtaining three lots owned by the City of Albany near the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Steet. And I’m trying to learn why the city owns these properties in the first place.

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Tags: apartments, city lots, homless shelter, industrial zoning, Ninth and Jackson, Van Vleet Meat

Albany’s homeless campsite gets a hose

Written August 11th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 23 responses.

One of the necessities Albany’s designated homeless camp needed was a source of potable water. It didn’t have one on Wednesday, but now it does, thanks to Helping Hands.

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Tags: Darol Davies, Helping Hands, homeless campsite, Marvin's Garden, Ninth and Jackson, potable water

Albany’s homeless site needs three things

Written August 10th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 61 responses.

Albany’s officially designated homeless camp, Marvin’s Garden, has at least three deficiencies that should be fixed, the city council learned Wednesday. Members listened to the report but made no move to act on it.

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Tags: camping site, homeless, homeless tents, Marvin's Garden, Ninth and Jackson, portable toilets

First tents appear at Marvin’s Garden

Written July 1st, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 27 responses.

At Marvin’s Garden, the city of Albany’s designated camping site for homeless people who have nowhere else to go, the first residents appear to have moved in.

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Tags: homeless, Marvin's Garden, Ninth and Jackson