Apartment Project Planned Overlooking Niagara River

Whhhaaaaaat excellent

And now the re-growth of Niagara Street begins. Grea!!!

i often wondered what was going on with this building, it was sold, there was a plan, but that was the last we heard, so this is good news...this is a great stretch of buildings from this site to forest ave...it would be awesome to see a conversion along niagara st. but i can't imagine the effort needed to clean up the industrial legacy left behind...

Does anyone know where this property would be situated if the new bridge and plaza was to be built? It always seems that once one of these 3-4 big real estate players announces plan for something not to long later we hear plans from the city or elsewhere for some huge construction going on. I always thought they had some inside knowledge of future plans that just got the green light and are waiting for paper work, but that sounds kinda crazy. Back to the original question. Wouldn't this building be feet away from the new plaza? It would be nice to see this strip of Niagara st cleaned up but it will take a long time.

Wow, Carl, impressive. New Condos on the Waterfront and now this. New property acquisition in Riverside and South Buffalo, too.
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Oh, by the way, I saw a model at the Avant a couple weeks ago - looking right over the hole in the roof of the Greystone that's been there since 2002.
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So, when you gonna cough up some cash on at least mothballing that? The hole is bigger than it was before.

The next time someone brings up the benifits if increased truck traffic from expansion of the bridge this place needs to be mentioned. This warehouse is situated at the doorstep to both the 190 and the Peace Bridge and should have been one of the first places to see new life if you believe the truck traffic=jobs mularkey. In spite of its prime access to a thruway, international crossing and loads of fume belching cars and trucks, it has sat empty for years. Hopefully it is being converted to residential use but that has more to do with the view of the river and nothing to do with highway or border acces. More proof that there isnt much economic upside to letting trucks rumble through town.

The good news is that once occupied there could be 23 more people to help fight the PBA.

Good to see more residential conversion but if the PBA continues to push for a gigantic truck plaza this address will become less desirable. As pitbull points out, truck traffic brings nothing but negatives and will only cause further decline in this area.

I can't imagine that anyone would want to live here because of the increased risk of asthma and cancer from the truck traffic on the peace bridge and thruway. Why would someone knowingly increase their risk of these horrible illnesses by living right next to the source?

This says alot about the redevelopment along the river between Buffalo State and the Peace Bridge for Carl to put this project on the agenda now.

As I have long said and will continue saying, once the Ojibwa townhomes and high rise towers are fully built between the Niagara River and the Niagara Expressway then the developers will shift their focus to the land between the Niagara Expressway and Niagara Street (or in this case the short stretch of Busti that is waterfront).

Who wants to take bets whether the real estate developers build up Niagara Street sooner or the Buffalo State students migrating from expensive Elmwood to cheaper Grant build it up to a college street first.

It also looks as if 2/3s of the building has been demolished. Would look better is a section was rebuilt and the narrowest portion were a large deck.

Heck, the ground floor can still be reserved for parking, just expand out with an additional apartment and deck above the parking.

Thirty years ago the owner of the business would not let the bike path have an easement across the back of this property, that is why the bike path followed the sidewalk in this area. I believe at the time there were rumors that the business would move out of the city if the easement became a reality. The end of the story is the business moved and bicyclists follow the sidewalk. I would urge someone to open negotiations to try and get an easement for the bike path across the back of this property.

Several years ago I climbed to the top of the old Schaeffer Brewery building and looked at the view to the west. While I hate to have high rise buildings blocking the view and access to the river (if we ever get access) the views the Niagara peninsula were wonderful. If our waterfront is such a diamond in the rough maybe it can be developed without giving it away for nothing.

dear whatever,
first let me respond to the question of whether Buffalo State students are migrating to Grant Street by saying that its not just students but the Coffee House (I forget the name) at Lafayette and Grant, the recent announcement of the Elmwood Yoga studio moving to Grant is another. It basically started when Buffalo State students crossed the Richmond barrier for cheaper apartments.

Those apartments west of Richmond and those businesses opening on Grant would not be there is there was not a migration away from increasingly expensive Elmwood.

In answer to your second point, may I suggest you do a google satellite map of the Buffalo State area that encompasses both the Scajaquada and Grant Street. I may not have been clear. Buffalo State will follow the Scajaquada by crossing Grant Street with their proposed Stadium and their proposed Parking Garage. If one follows the Scajaquada west, then the Scajaquada and Forest and Niagara Street all roughly intersect. A marker for this location is the old Bristol Myers-Westwood Pharmaceuticals which I think now is a Canadian company called Contract Pharmaceuticals.

This is the area of future Buffalo State expansion. For some reason Buffalo State will not cross the Scajaquada over to the old Steel Mill site along Tonawanda or the Amherst Street area which is fine...at will take more than a decade to expand their campus to Contract Pharmaceuticals.

Infact, I would not be suprised if Bristol Myers-Westwood Pharmaceuticals-Contract Pharmaceuticals...was bought by Buffalo State and incorporated into the campus at some point in the future.

Black Rock and Kenmore will continue to struggle in my opinion.

However...Buffalo State will expand, Grant Street will be a college street and high rise developments like the Pasquale will find the area between the Niagara Expressway and Niagara Street.

Yes, the area between Grant and Niagara Street will continue to struggle but not as much as Black Rock. The fate of this area will follow Niagara and Grant Street.

Grant will emulate Richmond. If one remembers previous development benefits of Elmwood always stopped at Richmond. Very few people were willing to pay and invest west of Richmond. When Grant does start to come back, then expect everything east of Grant to develop first.

My guess...Grant will happen before Niagara Street. Even with empty stores...the price differential between Elmwood and Grant is enormous and its only going to get worse.

Great news! I do wish Carl Paladino would renovate the Graystone for what it is, interior walls and all. I bet he'd be very pleasantly surprised by the outcome.

Mr Paladino suffers from property hoarding syndrome, a condition that compels one to acquire all available corner lots, vacant buildings, sites that may one day be in the footprint or proximity of a casino or Empire Zone, or ideal for a Dollar Store, Rite-Aide or Valero gas station.

This malady has no known cure, and seems to be manifested outwardly by bursts of dictatorial beneficence, populist pleadings and a plethora of political candidate donations.
Inwardly, there may be pronounced deafness to community, shrinking of essential body parts, and overwrought sense of self-importance. He may have to come up with a $100 donation to Extreme Home Make-over to finally address these issues.