| | Title | $50,000 for Albany. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 05 February 2001; p. 4 | | Description | A budget of $50,000 has been set aside by the council to prepare plans for Albany Village; the Albany Village Centre Plan. | | View full record |
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| | Title | $790,000 facelift for Albany Village. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 15 October 2004; p. 4 | | Description | Detailed plans for a make-over of Albany Village include street furniture, lighting and landscaping. Council will work closely with Transit New Zealand. | | View full record |
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| | Title | 'Miracle'inspires two shops | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 12 October 1995; p.6 | | Description | Jan Cooper never gave up hope that she would find a miracle.She now owns two shops at Albany, Crystal Webb shop and Themes. | | View full record |
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| | Title | A pedestrian-friendly vision for Albany village. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 13 September 2001; p. 14,15 | | Description | Residents of Albany Village want the road through their town to revert to local ownership instead of being maintained by Transit NZ; they envisage a low traffic, pedestrian friendly main street. | | View full record |
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| | Title | A vision of a local road. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 14 September 2001; p. 8 | | Description | Albany group wants State Highway 17 to become a local road and revert to Council control (away from the control of Transit New Zealand). It could once again become pedestrian-friendly. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany Village traffic problems. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 30 May 1996; p. 2 | | Description | Letter from Amber Lomas, President of the Albany Business Association protesting at the fact that Transit N.Z. and the Council are not installing traffic lights at Kell Drive, Albany Village after their removal from Oteha Valley Road, despite calls for lights by the Albany Business Association and Albany Mainstreet. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany aiming for more lively image. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 10 April 1997; p. 8 | | Description | Albany could be in for a facelift; N.S.C.C.'s Albany regional sub-committee meets today to discuss improvements to the appearance of Albany with new street furniture, bus shelters, art work and an Albany logo. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany battles to get noticed. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 03 March 1995; p.6 | | Description | Albany Village wants to establish a Mainstreet programme to maintain its profile in the face of competition from the new Albany centre being set up. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany gets makeover. | | Source of Article | Aucklander, 20 April 2005; p. 10 | | Description | $800,000 makeover for Albany village includes improving street lighting and paving, treeplanting and adding seating and rubbish bins | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany in a flap over roaming roosters. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 22 June 2001; p. 1 | | Description | Questions about the Albany Village roosters are again being asked as public input is sought by the North Shore City Council with draft plans and designs for the village; the roosters are an emotive issue. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany project again on back burner. | | Source of Article | Albany Extra, 19 April 1999; p. 3 | | Description | Taradale Properties' long-awaited proposal to develop Albany Village into an area of cafes and terraced apartments has met with hitches and is not going ahead for the moment. Businesses in the Village struggling to plan for the future with the supermarket and the post office now closed. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany retailers suspect fowl play. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 13 July 1993; p. 3 | | Description | An apparent drop in the number of roosters strutting around Albany Village has some retailers suspecting fowl play. Illegal culling was brought to the North Shore City Council's attention by shopkeepers earlier this year, but some say it seems to have reared it's head again. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany revamp could start next year. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 06 July 2001; p. 8 | | Description | Residents have given feedback on the future of Albany Village; a villa or period look could be appropriate, as well as maintaining the rural and country theme the village already has. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany shines in survey. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 03 July 2001; p. 1,2 | | Description | Albany is being hailed as an almost ideal example of mixed residential and business development; a draft survey by consultants, commissioned by the ARC says Albany shows how good planning can create almost ideal mixed use development. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany traffic queues shorter. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 23 July 1999; p. 3 | | Description | Transit New Zealand is delighted at the dramatic reduction of rush-hour queues through Albany Village after stopping the right hand turn into the lane. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany trees facing the chop. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 27 February 1997; p. 3 | | Description | Albany tree-lovers are furious that two historic trees which stand at the Kell Drive entrance to Albany Village, may have to be felled to make way for traffic lights at Kell Drive/State Highway One intersection. The kahikatea and the kowhai tree, are estimated respectively, to be 120 and 100 years old. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany village could have future as a university town. | | Source of Article | Albany Extra, 01 July 1999; p. 6 | | Description | Albany Mainstreet spokesperson Shirley Dobbyn suggests Albany Village could market itself as a university town, (cf Oxford and Cambridge, England), with its university, Lucas Creek alongside and village atmosphere for gatherings. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Albany village in doubt. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 30 July 1998; p. 3 | | Description | Taradale Propperties has withdrawn its interest in a multi-million dollar complex at Albany after management claimed the North Shore City Council objected to its plans of high density development in Albany. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Architect angry at Mega Centre's effect on village. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 05 April 2002; p. 3 | | Description | Landscape architect Mike Belcher says the Albany Mega Centre has destroyed business opportunities in Albany Village to the point where it is struggling to survive. But the council and the Albany Business Association don't support Mr Belcher's view. They say that the Centre is bringing in tens of thousands of people into the area so that Albany is being set up as the centre of the North Shore. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Banks leaving village for city centre. | | Source of Article | Albany Extra, 20 May 1999; p. 1 | | Description | Albany Village soon to lose its banks, the ANZ and Westpac Trust, when they relocate to the Mercari Business Centre being built at present at the Albany City Centre. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Board set on traffic lights. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 25 July 1996; p. 16 | | Description | Albany business community is confident lights will be installed at Kell Drive despite Transit New Zealand's reluctance. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Businesses fight street closure plans. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 11 February 1999; p. 3 | | Description | Transit New Zealand wants to close Library Lane for 2 hours during peak evening traffic to stop "rat runners". Businesses however are worried the lack of traffic will force them to close. ALbany Community Board will hold a meeting on Feb 17 to discuss the problems. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Buyers queue for complex. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 19 June 1998; p. 1 | | Description | The future of Three Guys supermarket at Albany Village depends on the Taradale Investments deal for a mixed residential and retail complex goes unconditional. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Carpark restrictions for Albany. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 05 July 2007; p.8 | | Description | More than 170 carparks have been transformed into short term parks on State Highway 17, Kell Drive, Oteha Valley Road Extension and in land behind Kell Drive to improve customer parking for Albany Village. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Centre brings jobs. | | Source of Article | New Zealand Herald, 21 October 1998; H2 | | Description | Albany Supa Centa has provided jobs for local teenagers. The loss of open space is a problem for some Albany citizens, but Margaret Miles of the Albany Community Board points out that landscaping is being done at the Centre, along the motorway and there are plans to spend $2 million on land adjacent to the Long Bay Reserve to try and extend that. Includes photograph of Albany Village with roosters. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Chooks okay despite bylaw. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 26 November 1999; p. 3 | | Description | Albany's roaming chicken population may be on the wrong side of a NSC bylaw amendment, prohibiting the keeping and feeding of wild birds that may create a nuisance. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Conditions put on lights for Albany. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 21 January 1997; p. 10 | | Description | Albany Business Association want to retain access to Library Lane, but Transit N.Z. says right turns at Library Lane and Oteha Valley Road will have to be sacrificed if traffic lights are to be installed at Kell Drive. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Council and Albany businesses defend Mega Centre "nightmare". | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 05 April 2002; p. 1,4 | | Description | Landscape architect Mike Belcher says the Mega Centre "nightmare" has destroyed business opportunities in Albany Village to the point where it is struggling to survive; the council and Albany Business Association don't agree and say the Village was always going to have a transitional phase. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Council approves Kell Drive lights. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 04 July 1996; p. 1 | | Description | North Shore City Council voted not to remove the Oteha Valley Road lights until lights are installed at Kell Drive. The Albany Business Association is pleased as there will be better access to Albany Village. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Country comes to Albany | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 23 November 1995; p.5 | | Description | Shoppers turned out in full force for the Albany Village Country Day held on Saturday | | View full record |
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| | Title | Design idea to be chiselled at weekend workshop. | | Source of Article | Albany Extra, 19 April 2001; p. 1 | | Description | Design workshop on the Albany Village Centre Plan Project. Public opinion sought. Survey suggests shops, cafes and bars would be good in the Village; people like the "peaceful and relaxed ambience" of the area. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Eyesore: Albany Village. | | Source of Article | New Zealand Herald, 21 February 1998; G2 | | Description | Article decrying the transition of the sleepy mock-colonial Albany village of 15 years ago to an"ode to the automobile" with "wall-to-wall caryards and banners fluttering in the wind." Includes photograph of "a street under stress". | | View full record |
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| | Title | First the chickens, now ATM vanishes. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 7 October 2008; p.15 | | Description | The chickens have gone and now the cash machine that has been in the Albany Village 'forever' has crossed the road. Photograph shows Albany Village Business Association chairman Rod Klaasen and Gary Douglas, from Barfoot and Thompson. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Helping homeless hens. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 16 November 2007; p.3 | | Description | Warwick Robertson says that the North Shore City Council is working closely with the SPCA and Animal Re-homing to re-home the estimated 200 hens and roosters in the Albany Village and Kell Park area. Linda Nunn, Shirley Dobbyn and Rod Klaasen comment. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Influencing village plan. | | Source of Article | Albany Extra, 08 March 2001; p. 1, 7 | | Description | Council is urging local Albany to have their say on the future of Albany. An Albany Centre plan being prepared. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Land sale disappoints Albany Village retailers | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 04 April 1996; p.3 | | Description | The sale of Albany Village's last vacant section has disappointed Mainstreet members who had hoped it might be used for additional retail space.Instead the land, earlier used for car-parking outside the ASB bank, will become a car sales yard | | View full record |
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| | Title | Library Lane. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 04 April 1997; p.76 | | Description | Library Lane businesses and Paremoremo Residents and Ratepayers Association differ over proposal to partially close the street, which adjoins State Highway One. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Lifestyle tag put forward. | | Source of Article | Albany Extra, 26 April 2001; p. 1 | | Description | Albany Energy Group makes suggestions to the Albany Community Board; ensuring community ownership and participation, initiating local economic action, developing a local sense of pride, identity and confidence, and implementing co-ordinated physical changes on heritage and design issues. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Lifestyle village plan for Albany. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 12 June 1998; p. 1 | | Description | Artists's impression of a new multi-million dollar Albany Village, which would include apartment-style housing for more than 200 people. Taradale Properties spokesman says the plan is to "create a Parnell/Ponsonby type image - cafes and boutique type shops." | | View full record |
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| | Title | Lights plan off again. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 20 February 1997; p. 12 | | Description | Albany Business Association withdraws support for Transit New Zealand's conditions for traffic lights at Kell Drive after businesses vow to fight the closure of Library Lane. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Massey enters space race. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 14 November 2003; p. 3 | | Description | Rapidly growing student roll is forcing Massey University to lease more space in Albany; to share a building with North Shore City Council's Albany Library, in Albany Village. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Mayor backs centre plans. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 23 February 1999; p. 3 | | Description | Mayor George Wood supports a new shopping development on the site of three car yards opposite Oteha Valley Road in Albany, despite Transit New Zealand's resistance (due to traffic bottleneck difficulties). The development would be "good for businesses which have suffered since the closure of the supermarket in the village". | | View full record |
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| | Title | Negotiations. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 10 March 1995; p.4 | | Description | Negotiations with landowners are continuing in connection with new road into Albany Village linking Albany Highway to Kell Drive. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Prime Albany site is sold. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 20 January 2000; p. 5 | | Description | The former Three Guys supermarket at Albany Village has been sold to Mason-Lowes Construction. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Property owners holding up roading project | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 28 March 1996; p.3 | | Description | Three property owners negotiating with North Shore City Council over the village access road have until May to settle or the project's funding will be deferred until next year | | View full record |
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| | Title | Race on to beat Albany chicken cull. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 14 July 2005; p. 1 | | Description | Animal welfare campaigner Linda Nunn has found homes for 111 of an estimated 250 chickens. North Shore City Council wants to reduce numbers to a maximum of 50 birds in the Albany Village area. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Reprieve for Albany traffic lights. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 24 May 1996; p.5 | | Description | Traffic lights at the Oteha Valley Rd/State Highway 1 intersection are to be retained until lights are installed at Kell Drive | | View full record |
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| | Title | Road given reprieve | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 04 April 1996; p.1 | | Description | Albany business parties are heartened by a temporary reprieve for funding of a shopping access road to Albany Village | | View full record |
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| | Title | Roadwork delayed by bad weather. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 22 June 1999; p. 3 | | Description | The controversial road works, stopping the right turn into Library Lane, have been delayed by the weather. The work is done at night to avoid delays during peak traffic, but it has rained alot at night recently. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Roosters still need homes. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 02 September 2005; p. 7 | | Description | North Shore City Council has put the cull on hold to give animal welfare campaigner, Linda Nunn, more time to find homes for the chickens at Albany Village. So far 257 chickens have been caught, and Ms Nunn is still seeking homes for about 50, mostly roosters. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Roosters' fate up to residents. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 22 June 2001; p. 3 | | Description | Questions about the Albany Village roosters are again being asked as public input is sought by the North Shore City Council with draft plans and designs for the village; the roosters are an emotive issue. | | View full record |
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| | Title | SPCA says no to hens. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 10 April 2008; p.2 | | Description | Auckland SPCA chief executive, Bob Kerridge, says the Albany Village Business Association's proposed plans for the hens have failed to provide adequately for rehoming, or the human disposal of surplus poultry. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Safety audit says no to Kell Drive lights. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 15 May 1997; p. 4 | | Description | North Shore City Council study suggests things be left as they are, and no new lights be put in at Kell Drive; this conclusion has renewed calls for an alternative access road to Albany Village. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Supermarket changes tack to become design school. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 21 February 2003; p. 4 | | Description | The former Three Guys supermarket at Albany Village is now housing the Massey University Design School. The 1600 square metre site has been gutted and refitted with a lecture theatre, a model shop, an ergonomics lab, and four design studios. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Tavern brings security fears. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 30 May 2000; p. 10 | | Description | Retailers say security at Albany Village may be further threatened when a new tavern opens at the end of the month. Tavern developer Patrick Rokos says these fears are unfounded. | | View full record |
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| | Title | The rapidly changing face of Albany. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 18 June 2002; p. 5 | | Description | Plans to upgrade and develop Albany Village will begin happening in the next year with a temporary library planned before the permanent one opens in 2007. A lot more growth is expected in the Mega Centre and additions are being made to North Harbour Stadium and Massey University. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Transit not keen on Kell Drive lights. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 14 March 1997; p. 75 | | Description | Albany Business Association and Transit New Zealand disagree about placing of traffic lights at Kell Drive; also traffic movement in and out of Library Lane. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Transit refuses land change in Albany. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 25 May 1999; p. 13 | | Description | Councillor Callum Blair suggests that it is the single-lane bridge in Albany, not Library Lane, which causes traffic congestion. Transit NZ going ahead with the unpopular partial closure of Library Lane. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Trees seen as solution to urban growth | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 31 August 1995; p.32 | | Description | Albany Mainstreet members are pushing for the development of an Albany sub-strategic plan to see the township developed as an arboretum of international standing | | View full record |
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| | Title | Village bursting with life. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 15 May 2003; p. 3 | | Description | After years of neglect Albany Village is facing some big changes. Development has already begun on a new library, opening at the end of this year. A large restaurant, office blocks and apartments will accompany it. Massey University has opened a Design School with 75 students and local businesses stand to gain rewards for staying through the hard times. Article includes an artist's impression of the development. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Village chickens must go - SPCA. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 14 February 2008; p. 3 | | Description | The SPCA wants Albany Village's iconic chickens removed, saying letting them roam there is inhumane.
Photograph shows Animal Rehoming volunteer Linda Nunn. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Village efforts ignored say Albany groups. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 28 November 1997; p. 11 | | Description | Albany Business Association President Amber Lomas says proposals to enhance the village's unique atmosphere received no council funding even though it owns half the area; the Association will continue to revamp the village in an effort to ensure its survival. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Village has to be different. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 15 June 1997; p. 9 | | Description | Albany Business Association President, Amber Lomas, believes the Albany Village will have to remodel itself so it has a distinct identity from the multi-million dollar mall now under construction down the road. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Village of the crammed. | | Source of Article | Aucklander, 14 July 2011; p. 10 | | Description | A lack of parking in Albany village may be keeping customers away. Upper Harbour Local Baord chair, Brian Neeson sees additional parking as a priority. Photograpah of Albany jeweller, Michael Harris. Quest Serviced apartments is being built on Kell Drive, with on-site parking. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Waiting for green light. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 19 September 1996; p. 5 | | Description | Traffic lights could be installed at Kell Drive, Albany around Labout weekend; Transit New Zealand yet to approve NSCC's design proposal for the signals at the entrance to Albany Village. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Weedy problem grows. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 9 October 2008; p.12 | | Description | A lack of council funding has left weeds up to 50cm high growing around the trees along the Albany Village main street. Photo shows Albany Village Business Association chairman Rod Klaasen among the weeds. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Welcome reprieve from cull for Albany hens. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times, 22 July 2005; p. 4 | | Description | More time has been granted to allow animal welfare campaigner Linda Nunn to catch and find homes for the remaining Albany roosters. The cull would leave a maximum of 50 birds in the village. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Where "shoppers just keep coming back". | | Source of Article | Shore News, 26 May 1999; p. 9 | | Description | Albany Mega Centre is considered a success. It comprises more than 37,000 square metres of retail space on more than nine hectares of land and is a new concept in retailing. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Why did council wait so long? | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 04 April 1996; p.2 | | Description | Albany's rocketing real estate prices are no surprise to the man in the street, so why has the NSCC left its run so long to buy three lots for a much-needed access road around Albany Village? | | View full record |
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| | Title | Wish list for Albany Village. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 03 August 1993; p. 14 | | Description | The Albany Village shopping area may get a facelift if proposals by business people in the area go ahead. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Work to give Albany a lift. | | Source of Article | New Zealand Herald, 11 July 1998; K12 | | Description | Supermarket (3 Guys) in Albany Village to be demolished; eight smaller shops in Albany Village to be replaced by Taradale Properties. They are also planning a 48-residence development overlooking the Village. Includes map of Albany developments. | | View full record |
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