For a decade now, the vacant lot at 370 Burkhart St. S.E. in Albany has made an appearance on this website just about once a year. Maybe one of these years something will actually happen there.
The lot holds a concrete reservoir that once was part of the Albany water system but was decommissioned many years ago. The city of Albany acquired the massive tank and the lot when it bought the water system from Pacific Power & Light in 1985.
The city’s initial attempts to get rid of this piece of surplus property foundered on the cost of demolishing the concrete tank, which the city at one time estimated at $400,000…