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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

What all that earth moving is about

Written September 4th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

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?


What’s up with Wells Fargo lot: An update

Written January 3rd, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Some day there may be a building there, but for now the former site of Wells Fargo Bank’s downtown Albany branch is serving the need for more parking slots.


Now it’s done: Behold the ‘Opera House’

Written October 18th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

It has taken a while, but now a faded former apartment house on East First Avenue in Albany has been rebuilt as something completely different. Now it’s the Opera House, a building with century-old lines on the outside and modern, well equipped apartments inside the walls.


Quick sale: Council likes Lepman proposal

Written October 2nd, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Well, that was quick — the sale, that is, of the former Wells Fargo Bank property in downtown Albany.


St. Francis restoration: What the numbers mean

Written September 15th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

A question was circulating among people with their eyes open in downtown Albany over the last few days: What’s with all those numbers in the windows of the former St. Francis Hotel?


An infill project on Water Avenue

Written July 12th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Talk about infill! That’s the idea of building on vacant lots surrounded by established uses, and the latest proposal by Albany developer Scott Lepman certainly qualifies.


Council votes to sell former Cumberland site

Written June 22nd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

The former site of the historic Cumberland Church in Albany will go to Baldwin General Contracting, which owns the property next door.


 
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