Three city-owned parking lots along the Albany riverfront might some day hold residential high rises because of a partial tax exemption Mayor Alex Johnson II and three council members enacted on Wednesday.
The construction of Albany’s new plaza street is supposed to be complete in November, and it looks like the contractors may reach that goal.
Years ago, the weekly farmers’ market drew people to the Albany riverfront on Saturday mornings. It will do so again starting next spring.
A couple of things caught my attention Friday on a bike ride along Albany’s new plaza street, the block of Water Avenue near the entrance to Monteith Riverpark.
A big vacant lot owned by the city of Albany on the Water Avenue rail line will likely stay vacant for the foreseeable future. The city council Wednesday took no action toward disposing of the property or doing anything with it.
Now here was something you don’t see in Albany every day: parked cars inside big plastic bags ballooning in the wind.
Plaza street gets benches; trees come next
Bit by bit, Albany’s new plaza street is taking its final shape as the city’s contractor is getting close to winding up three years of construction on the Albany Waterfront Project.
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