monday march 20th 2006
Eight Townhomes for Michigan Avenue
West Coast Perspective
Downtown is not the only area of the city where new construction is planned. Spearheaded by Bethel Community Development Corporation, eight, three-bedroom townhomes will soon start construction at 1504-1520 Michigan Avenue. There will be wo four-unit buildings with rear-entry garages. The site is across the Bethel AME Church and the $28 million renovation of the former Buffalo Traditional High School that will soon be home of the Buffalo Academy of Visual…
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sunday march 19th 2006
Art Dialogue Gallery
queenseyes
Be sure to stop into Art Dialogue Gallery/Western NY Artists Group to see their latest show which features the works of Latin Influenced Yolanda Daliz, Gustavo Glorioso & Roberto Pacheko. The gallery features the works of many regional artists at any given time. Art Dialolgue places a strong emphasis on emergin…
andalu13
Grigory Ksendzov, Roberto Morales and Marcelo Salinas were on a quest to locate Buffalo's best tequila . That wasn't the main reason this trio came from Russia and Mexico to hang with the locals this past week.
saturday march 18th 2006
New Plan for AM&Ais
West Coast Perspective
Richard Taylor and John Giardino are circulating their $38 million vision for a redeveloped AM&Ais building at 377 Main Street which includes a modern new facade. According to their plans, the former department store and adjacent warehouse at 382-384 Washington Street would be converted to 74 apartments and condominiums, 20,000 sq.ft. of retail space, a…
Cynnie Gaasch
Last year at about this time, a few of us got together and talked about a new business idea, with major implications for our neighborhood. A garden center, where we could buy plants without driving to West Seneca or Amherst. And more than that, let's make it a cooperative, so that we have some control over what we can buy there. And so, the seed was planted for Urban Roots Community Garden Center. We gathered surveys and put the word out about this plan this summer, and we are moving forward toward incorporation, and our first summer of providing plants to the community.
We expect that as spring appears you are looking forward to …
West Coast Perspective
Is Ellicott Development's Court Street Tower (aka The McGuire Building) finally about to become reality? Potentially, but now the project has been put off until 2007. Wisely, the City has set benchmarks for performance. If the developer doesnit move forward, the developer will relinquish ownership of the…
friday march 17th 2006
BPO is gettin' the Led out!
Ethan Cox
You've probably seen the banner, or the giant ad in the newest Buffalo Rising Magazine, but in case you haven't noticed: Our own Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will be rocking Kleinhans on Saturday, March 25th, playing the music of Led Zeppelin. That's right, ROCKING, with lights, fog, electric guitar (& violin!), vocals courtesy of Randy Jackson... and most of all volume: all the trappings of the modern "arena" rock show that in many ways, we owe to Led Zeppelin in the first place. This is not
West Coast Perspective
AIDS Community Services of Western New York will not be moving to High Street after all according to Business First.
The organization has pulled the plug on construction of a four-story, 50,000 sq.ft. offi…
West Coast Perspective
392 Pearl Street, a four-story office building that has been vacant for over two years, has a new owner. Appropriately named 392 Pearl Street Properties, LLC out of Lakewood, New Jersey finalized the purchase on Wednesday from long-time owners Chris Lory and Jane Griffin. According to Clarke Thrasher of Hunt Commercial Real Estate who handled the trans…
