The former West Albany Safeway supermarket may not be empty much longer. A nonprofit ministry, Adult and Teen Challenge Pacwest, says it has signed a lease for the building and plans to move its Albany thrift store there.
I got word of this development Friday in a message from Josh Howard, the chief financial officer of Teen Challenge Pacwest. “In total,” he told me in an email, “we have 18 residential programs, outpatient facilities, and eight thrift stores across six western states.”
The present Teen Challenge thrift store at 310 Second Ave. SE is to be closed when the new one opens on Pacific. Howard expects the change to take place in the spring or early summer…