This is the area at 3080 Pacific Boulevard S.E. where Tesla is proposing to build a 16-stall EV charging station.
The Tesla company has told the Albany building department it plans to construct an electric vehicle charging station with 16 stalls on Southeast Pacific Boulevard.
Daniel Baba, a design engineer for Tesla based in Bothell, Wash., applied for an electrical permit at 3080 Pacific Blvd. S.E. last July. The permit was issued in November.
The address on the permit is that of the Human Bean coffee kiosk on the parking lot between Winco and Burger King. When I took a bike ride to the address last week, I saw no indications that a charging station was planned there.
The permit is just for electrical work, and Tesla will still need a building permit if it wants to go ahead with the station there, Albany Building Official Johnathan Balkema told me. As of last week, no building permit had been filed.
A year ago, the City of Albany accepted a federal grant of $1.8 million toward a $2.3 million project to construct four public EV charging stations with four stalls each. One of the stations was to be built in the general vicinity of the Winco and Kohl’s property. But the federal grant program was suspended after President Trump took office, and the city project has not moved forward.
Whether Tesla goes ahead with its project on Pacific won’t be known until it files for a building permit or, potentially, a site plan review.
The electric permit alone cost the company $2,917.30 in state and city fees. (hh)
Great location. EV’s have a quick on and off I-5. Perhaps it will bring more travelers into our city to shop, explore or try one of our resturants. As a EV owner for the last 2 years I have stopped and discovered different areas, towns and rest stops with charging stations that I never would have stopped at before. Also I saw my first EV sign on I-5. I’m sure more will be showing up just like the gas and resturant postings for interstate and highway exits.
Why does it take roughly 6 months from request to approval? Is reviewing an application that complicated?
Great, close for me, good place for them, WINCO, Burger King, and the coffee stand.
Hasso writes, in his typical faux conspiratorial tone that, “The electric permit alone cost the company $2,917.30 in state and city fees.” I am of the firm belief that Tesla, a subsidiary company Musk owns, can find these dollars in order to build the charging stations. Musk’s Space X currently holds “… approximately $22 billion in secured U.S. government contracts, according to company CEO Gwynne Shotwell.” Anyone showing any financial sympathy for Musk on this $2,917.30 expenditure clearly does not understand just how much money Musk takes from American taxpayers already. I suggest that Mr. Hering look into the federal funds being paid to Musk and worry less about fees for an electric charging station whose principle goal is to make charging Teslas more convenient, thereby making Tesla sales more likely.
It’s called CAPITALISM! Ya wanna leave the astronauts in space because our govt. doesn’t have a viable space transportation program as some of you “socialists” prefer?
How about when he moved Starlink in place after one of the major hurricanes because the usual communication providers couldn’t.
You “socialists” want EV’s, but apparently not from the man/company that has done the most to promote the technology far better than the corporate giants that Obama bailed out.
Must not be easy to be you. So conflicted that you would prefer the country to go down the tube instead of prospering brcause of your selfish, STUPID political reasons.
Elon’s companies have saved their butts several times.
If it wasn’t for Musk, the electric car business would still be standing at the starting line waiting for the government to act. Without Musk there would be no charging stations in the US although Buttigieg did get 7 stations built in his 4 years even though he had $7 billion to use. The Hartman’s of the world are bystanders not doers like Musk and other entrepreneurs. Without Musk, the astronauts would still be at the space station and Biden, if he was even aware of the problem, would still be ignoring the problem. Hartman, you live in Oregon where schools are ranked near the bottom while money spent per student is near the top, ODOT has built 8 miles of actual new road in 50 years and they can’t even stripe the roads, the protesters continue to target federal buildings and the Oregon media continues to ignore protests, Albany roads are falling apart and government wastes millions on non-essential public spending, the court system continues to release criminal illegal immigrants rather than turning them over to ICE with the approval of the governor, the last time I saw a statistic 7% of the Oregon prison population was illegal immigrants which costs the state millions of dollars, the state pension plan is billions of dollars underfunded and is costing Albany schools somewhere about 25% of employee payrolls and actually makes the state insolvent except it’s a Ponzi scheme as Oregon does not have the assets to fund the pension plan. Take a good hard look at Oregon and tell me I’m wrong.