Four downtown organizations are sharing in the last batch of grants handed out by the Albany Revitalization Agency, which governs the CARA urban renewal program.
Twelve Albany property owners are competing for money in the last round of urban renewal grants from the Central Albany Revitalization Area or CARA.
Renovating the historic Oregon Electric Railway depot in Albany to house the Sybaris Bistro restaurant involves building a 4,004-square-foot addition, according to a site plan filed with the city.
It’s hard to imagine now what the old Oregon Electric Railway depot in Albany will be like once it has been fully restored and Sybaris Bistro has moved in. But Matt Bennett can imagine it very well, and he explained his ideas to me this week.
Where Albany downtown building revival projects are concerned, everything seems to take longer than expected. That includes the much-anticipated sale and restoration of the historic Oregon Electric Railway depot on Fifth Avenue.
Albany is plowing ahead with its $16.2 million project to upgrade the Willamette riverfront, but it’s not a unanimous decision.
A non-story about a parking lot
Now here’s a little story that is not much of a story at all, at least not what somebody thought.
Tags: Armory Building, Linn County lot, parking, Sybaris