urban renewal

Edgewater: Completed in 2020, as planned

Written December 9th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Before this Covid-scarred year of 2020 is over, let’s not forget that a big development project supported by Albany’s urban renewal program has been successfully completed.

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Tags: Albany downtown, Albany riverfront, CARA, Edgewater Village, urban renewal

St. Francis project cost stuns CARA board

Written September 16th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 19 responses.

Architect Bill Ryals’ concept of the restored St. Francis Hotel with a roof-top restaurant and diagonal parking on Ferry Street.Renovating the former St. Francis Hotel in downtown Albany would cost $10-11 million, and when it’s done it would be worth $4-5 million. This means that for the project to go ahead, the CARA urban renewal […]

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Tags: CARA, downown Albany, St. Francis, St. Francis-Rhodes, urban renewal

CARA update: $34.5M spent, $21.5M to go

Written December 11th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 52 responses.

CARA, Albany’s downtown urban renewal district, was created in 2001 and originally was scheduled to last until 2027. Now it’s expected to expire in 2033.

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Tags: Albany downtown, CARA, Tiberius Solutions, urban renewal, Wells Fargo redevelopment

Riverfront design contract up for CARA action

Written October 15th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 13 responses.

This boardwalk, part of Albany’s Dave Clark Path, was built to skirt a restaurant that perched on the Willamette riverbank below the Ellsworth Street Bridge. The restaurant burned down years ago, but the path still winds around where it sat.

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Tags: CARA riverfront project, downtown Albany, urban renewal

CARA budget focuses on riverfront upgrade

Written May 21st, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

For Albany’s downtown urban renewal program known as CARA, the focus now is on launching and completing a redevelopment of the riverfront along Water Avenue, finishing some remaining projects, and then going out of business, possibly by 2025.

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Tags: CARA, riverfront redevelopment, urban renewal, Water Avenue

CARA still coy about Fargo offers, but …

Written May 16th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Albany’s urban renewal agency continues to be shy about naming the parties that offered to acquire the former Wells Fargo branch in the heart of downtown. But it plans to decide on selling the building to one of them the next time the CARA advisory board meets, which is June 19.

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Tags: Albany downtown, CARA, property deals, urban renewal, Wells Fargo

Revival of the east side: Another step

Written April 13th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

The Schultz Building at 212 First Ave. S.E. has seen various uses since being built in 1910. Now it may become a restaurant, according to a grant request being considered by the Albany urban renewal district.

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Tags: Albany revival, CARA, Homegrown Oregon Foods, Schultz Building, Shawna Turkins, urban renewal