{"id":386531,"date":"2026-01-04T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386531\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:07:11","slug":"in-old-neighborhood-new-home-takes-shape-hasso-hering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386531\/","title":{"rendered":"In old neighborhood, new home takes shape \u2013 Hasso Hering"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I leaned the bike against a post to get a look at new construction at 2125 Willamette Ave. NE on Jan. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n

On the day after New Year\u2019s, there was nothing sensational to see on my first bike ride of 2026 into Albany\u2019s Willamette Neighborhood. But a building site caught my eye.<\/p>\n

This area along the river on the east side of the old part of Albany is not ritzy or new. Which is one reason I like it. Another reason is that it\u2019s out of the way and has very little traffic.<\/p>\n

So I was a little surprised a few days ago to see, from a couple blocks away, the soaring rafters of a new house being built. On Friday I stopped to take a closer look.<\/p>\n

The house is under construction at 2125 Willamette Ave. NE. It\u2019s a single-family home being built by the property owners on the former site of a manufactured house.<\/p>\n

My impression from afar that it was big was not wrong. The city building permit calls it a \u201c2,950 square foot residential home.\u201d Elsewhere on the permit, the square footage is shown as 4,880, but presumably that includes the daylight basement created by tall concrete foundation walls.<\/p>\n

The permit values the construction at $596,699, a far cry from the property\u2019s current assessed value of $84,740.<\/p>\n

Judging by the shape of the roof and the long overhanging porch roof in front, this will be quite a handsome new home. (hh)<\/p>\n

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A better look at the front of the home under construction at 2125 NE Willamette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I leaned the bike against a post to get a look at new construction at 2125 Willamette Ave.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-386531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}