Albany city officials are doing what they can to fill vacant land east of Interstate 5 with people and housing. The city council took two steps toward that goal this week.
On Wednesday, the council agreed to seek a $2 million state infrastructure grant for 102 apartments, the second phase of “Colonia del Valle Prospero.” That hopefully named venture is a project on Spicer Drive sponsored by the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation, of Woodburn.
The first phase of 54 units is already under construction on the north side of the property…