Three small vacant lots in central Albany and owned by the city will soon come up for sale. What eventually happens there, if anything, seems very much up in the air.
The lots are at 503 and 519 Ninth Ave. and 817 Jackson St. S.E., near the corner of Ninth and Jackon below the Pacific Boulevard overpass. (See the image above.)
The Helping Hands homeless shelter would like to purchase the properties. The organization already owns five old houses west of the homeless shelter on Ninth and has dreams of replacing the houses with a 70-unit apartment complex…