The sad-looking but historic downtown building at 129 W. First Ave. in Albany has been empty for a long time. Now it has a new owner and probably won’t be empty and unused for long.
I’ve written about this property several times since its front wall threatened to collapse during an attempted remodeling in 2016. If you want the background, it was summarized here.
For the last year or two, there was a f0r-sign in the window. More recently the sign was gone, and this week I finally looked it up: In February, the Albany Civic Theater, which is next door, bought the property for $300,000 from the Salem-based Jesus Revival Association…