Downtown Post Office to Stay Open at Least Additional Year
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
The downtown Albany post office will not be closing after all, at least not for another year.
Mayor Dorothy Hubbard and Dougherty County Commission Chairman Jeff Sinyard held a joint news conference Wednesday morning to announce that the United States Postal Service had signed a one-year lease to maintain its relationship with the 345 W. Broad Ave. facility through Sept. 30, 2014.
"I'm so excited," Hubbard said. "We made the announcement about the V.A. clinic at the (Marine Corps Logistics) base this morning, and now here we are again with more good news."
Sinyard said city and county officials and property manager Francis Krack, who also attended the news conference, would work with USPS officials to secure a future for the downtown post office beyond the year of the new lease.
