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On the riverfront: What kind of development?

Written September 28th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 6 responses.

With nothing more urgent on my plate, I stopped on the Albany riverfront Tuesday evening to look around. What I saw was nothing sensational or new, but it prompted me to say:

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Visiting Independence and ‘Station 203’

Written March 6th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 3 responses.

As a longtime reader, you may recognize this photo. Taken Friday, it is just like one you may have seen here before, on March 30, 2018. But now there seems to be new hope that the building will be finished and the picture will improve.

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Riverfront development question: How much?

Written August 24th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 29 responses.

Albany may spend up to $20 million in urban renewal funds to redevelop its Willamette riverfront, including 14 blocks of Water Avenue from Washington Street to Main, but the potential price tag is getting some pushback from at least two members of the city council.

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Next on the riverfront: Hiring consultants

Written July 5th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 19 responses.

Albany is getting ready to pick a firm of consultants to design a remake of the city’s Willamette riverfront from Washington Street in the west to Main Street in the east.

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