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Council rejects top bid, wants more money

Written June 25th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 29 responses.

Wanting more money, the Albany City Council Wednesday turned down a company’s offer to buy three vacant city-owned lots so the business could expand.

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Tags: Albany City Council, city lots, Helping Hands, Ninth and Jackson, Van Vleet Meat

Three city lots: Council wants an appraisal

Written November 24th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

The Albany City Council has taken the first step before deciding to dispose of three city-owned lots on Jackson Street and Ninth Avenue near the Helping Hands homeless shelter, which already owns most of that block.

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Tags: Albany City Council, city lots, Helping Hands, homeless lots, homeless shelter, Pacific overpass, surplus city land, Van Vleet Meat

What to do with these city-owned lots?

Written September 28th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

Two parties have declared their interest in obtaining three lots owned by the City of Albany near the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Steet. And I’m trying to learn why the city owns these properties in the first place.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: apartments, city lots, homless shelter, industrial zoning, Ninth and Jackson, Van Vleet Meat

A praying mantis on that distant roof?

Written January 29th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

What’s that odd-looking yellow contraption up on the roof in the distance? It caught my eye on Jan. 25 as I was standing under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany and looking around.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: cold storage, ecoomic development, Pacific viaduct, Van Vleet Meat