From the outside, Browsers’ Bookstore at 1425 S.E. Pacific Blvd. looks about the same. But step inside and you will be astonished at how the place has changed.
What’s going in there? Now we know
Written March 4th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
For more than three years, passers-by have been wondering what was going in at this address on busy Pacific Boulevard in Albany. This week we got the answer when wall signs started going up.
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Tags: 416 Pacific Blvd S.W., Albany business, Albany Carpet One, carpet business, Carpet One, Pacific Boulevard
Tags: 416 Pacific Blvd S.W., Albany business, Albany Carpet One, carpet business, Carpet One, Pacific Boulevard
Changes coming on Santiam and Pacific
Written January 14th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
IÂ took this photo on a Sunday in February 2020, after ODOT announced plans to work on the busy Albany intersection of Waverly Drive and Santiam Highway. Now the department is getting ready to carry out that and another Albany project at an estimated combined cost of nearly $6 million.
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Tags: Airport Road, Albany highway projects, highway work, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, raised median, Santiam Highway, Waverly and U.S. 20
Tags: Airport Road, Albany highway projects, highway work, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, raised median, Santiam Highway, Waverly and U.S. 20
Riding in the ‘bike gutter’: Clean but risky
Written October 29th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Watching a video on urban planning and transportation the other day, I heard the presenter refer to “bike gutters.” What did he mean?
Seen up close, those sewer grates are safe
Written January 9th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Friday’s short video tour of bike lanes along Highways 20 and 99E (Albany’s Santiam Highway and Pacific Boulevard) caused a least a couple of viewers to worry about the sewer grates as they flashed by.
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Tags: Albany highways, bike lanes, cycling, Pacific Boulevard, Santiam Highway, storm sewer grates
Tags: Albany highways, bike lanes, cycling, Pacific Boulevard, Santiam Highway, storm sewer grates
What’s that? Another construction site…
Written December 11th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
What are they building there? That’s a question I get now and then, and in the case of 416 Pacific Blvd. S.W. in Albany, the short answer is “a commercial building.”
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A change is coming at former Izzy’s address
On Facebook the other day, some people were surprised that Izzy’s restaurant at 2115 S.W. Pacific was no longer in business. But it hasn’t been around for a quite a while.
Tags: Izzy's, Pacific Boulevard, Subway sandwiches