Several projects in the Jefferson Avenue corridor are keeping contractors busy this summer. Approximately half of the homes planned at Sycamore Village are in various stages of construction. Nearby, thirteen homes are being built on Hickory Street between Broadway and William Street. And crews are building the first townhouses along Jefferson Avenue, the kick-off of a redevelopment plan at the A.D. Price public housing community.
Sycamore Village at the corner of Sycamore Street and Jefferson Avenue will consist of 24 detached single-family homes on a 3.86-acre parcel. The subdivision includes four subsidized and 20 market rate units that are expected to be priced in the $180,000 to $200,000 range.
Framed houses line a future commons area at Sycamore Village.
The homes feature three or four bedrooms and 1,400 to 1,700 sq.ft. of living space. Most of the residences have rear-loading garages, many accessed from Sydni Alley, a new alleyway cutting through the site.
Construction continues in the Home Ownership Zone. Thirteen new four-bedroom homes are underway on Hickory Street (photo below). Buyer income must be at or below 80 percent of the area median to be eligible for one of the subsidized homes.
Norstar Development and Savarino Companies were selected by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA) to transform the A.D. Price Courts apartment project at Jefferson Avenue and William Street. A mix of rental and for-sale homes are being built.
The first phase involves the construction of 55 one and two-bedroom townhomes (photos above and below). Subsequent phases will rehab existing units, demolish nine existing, three-story garden style apartment buildings and add 20 new for-sale homes and 55 additional rental units as well as a community center, pocket park, rehabilitation of Willert Park, and infrastructure improvements.
