North Albany

Construction under way in Riverwood Crossing

Written May 26th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

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.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: child lots, congestion, housing, land use, middle housing, North Albany, Riverwood Crossing, urban development

Prospects look dim for this intercity bikeway

Written April 22nd, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 17 responses.

Remember the Albany-Corvallis bikeway that then Commissioner Linda Modrell of Benton County proposed in about 2004? Benton County and the state are still working on it, but its eventual completion looks very much in doubt.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany-Corvallis Highway, Benton County, bicycling, Highway 20, Merloy to Rinwater, North Albany, ODOT, shared use path

‘Middle housing’ project sprouts new sign

Written March 12th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

There’s a new sign by the side of Gibson Hill Road in North Albany. It signals that a planned 80-lot “middle housing” project is ready to go ahead and that its ownership has changed.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: 3118 Gibson Hill, housing, housing density, Lennar, middle housing, North Albany

Where all those cars are coming from

Written October 6th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 39 responses.

Friday afternoon’s North Albany traffic tie-up was worse than most. The underlying cause was the same as always: Too many cars.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: congestion, Highway 20, North Albany, population growth, traffic

What all that earth moving is about

Written September 4th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 18 responses.

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?

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: flood plain, housing, North Albany, North Albany Road, Scott Lepman

Keeping track of 80-lot townhouse project

Written August 21st, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

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.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: housing, middle housing, North Albany, Riverwood Crossing

Revisiting memories of tennis long ago

Written July 17th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

It was probably 30 or 40 years ago that I last had occasion to hit a tennis ball on the courts behind North Albany Middle School. Wondering whether the courts still exist, I stopped at the school on a bike ride and found that the courts are still there.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: North Albany, schools, tennis