Comments about the new but still unfinished roundabout on Salem Avenue in Albany caused me to revisit the scene on Wednesday evening.
In a large open area between Southeast Waverly Drive and Davidson Street in Albany, crews have been preparing the ground for what developers hope will become a community of small houses.
As you may have noticed when traveling on Albany’s Salem Avenue this month, contract crews have been working to get the street ready for repaving and construction of a “mini-roundabout.”
Now that engineers have been hired, there’s a timeline for getting the aging Waverly Drive bridge on Cox Creek replaced.
This story is about a pothole. Not just any pothole. Not the kind of pothole which Albany’s older local streets have in abundance. This pothole is special, or it seems that way.
It was five years ago, in July 2019, that leaders of a new nonprofit in Albany were telling me about their plans for Hub City Village. Now they’re about to celebrate reaching their goal.
Albany okays site plan for 83 cottages
If the developers follow through on their approved plans, a 4.2-acre parcel of vacant land just south of the Albany Public Library will become a tightly packed neighborhood of single-family cottages.
Tags: 15Fifty Place, affordable housing, Albany Planning Commission, Davidson Street, housing, Waverly Drive