Bethune Still For Sale- Now Copperless
Landau purchased the four-story building adjacent to Bennett High School for $384,000 in April 2006 through an auction conducted by the State. At the time of purchase, Landau announced plans to convert the building into loft-style apartments, artists' studios and offices. Foit-Albert Associates was retained to draw up plans (below). Four months later the property was put up for sale.
The structure was designed and built by Lockwood, Green & Company in 1915 for the Buffalo Meter Company, a manufacturer of liquid meters. In 1971, the State of New York acquired the building from The Singer Company, as successor to Buffalo Meter Company, and after a rehabilitation in 1973, the SUNY School of Architecture and Design moved into the building and renamed it Bethune Hall (named after Louise Blanchard Bethune, architect of the Lafayette Hotel, the first professional woman architect in the United States). Classes ceased at the building in 1993 and SUNY had been using it for storage.
The State Historic Preservation Office has determined the property is eligible for listing on the State and National Register of Historic Places and therefore, it may qualify for Historic Preservation Tax Credits and other special programs for historic properties. Architects Lockwood, Green also designed the 10-story Larkin at Exchange Building in the Larkin District.
The property has an asking price of $2,150,000. It might be safe to say there have been no tire kickers since November 11.
Get Connected: Arthur Judelsohn of Pyramid Brokerage, 716.691.9329
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chris69
This smells awfully fishy to me.
The guy buys the building and does absolutely nothing, probably doesnt even secure the building ... announces grandiose plans while eating potatoe chips on his sofa playing game boy.
sounds to me like meyer landau pulled alittle @#$% here in Buffalo buying a building, sending a crew out and into an unlocked building to steel all the metal and other valuables and then claim theft once they are safely returned and found alibies where the police could not ascertain the exact date of the theft.
Im sorry to say but if I were an insurance company, I would have @#$% [deleted]
AND NO, I DONT THINK THIS WAS AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENTIAL CRIME BY AN OUT OF TOWN [deleted] DEVELOPER.
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gaustad
Chirs69, way to speak your mind. I can't believe Meyer pulled off this kind of heist, from Brooklyn no less. He almost retrieved half his purchase price. There must be some steel in there too that can be sold.
I am sure the building is a pile of sh!t, but 384k for a building of this size in its location was not a bad price.
Must be nice to have Daddy's money and cherry pick properties in Broke Buffalo.
Where are the violations and fines on this property from the city of Buffalo? It is not secured and a hazard to the neighborhod.
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LivingForge
If this isn't enough to get Chris69's account suspended, then I don't know what is.
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LivingForge
I don't think we can just "pluck" Chris69's specific slurs out and make it OK for his comments to stay here. So for the record, he made a series of anti-semitic comments, including the desire to see all downstate Jews deported.
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Colin
Landau = scam artist
chris69/Timmy = antisemitic, misogynistic filth
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ChocolateShake
Colin = someone who needs to turn off the computer and get laid
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Colin
CS --
Thanks for your concern for my sex life. It's odd that one of the relatively few people here who has ever calls out racist posters would complain about someone calling chris69 on his antisemitism.
QE, ECB, ec. --
Why is chris69 still posting here? At what point should we assume that his chronic hate and racism mirror your own views?
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hodgepodge
know nothing about the owner but why does my gut tell me there's something more to this? if the owner did not know (or care) that the copper was stripped sometime during a 6-month period, why should I? is he looking for sympathy or just an insurance check?
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onestarmartin
tidy return down the road if he was to sell, it. but, what goes around, comes around, no copper & vandels = no sale....
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Texpat10
Hey BRO...the site has issues. It ate my post!
Conspiracy theories aside, this looks like a pretty attractive project. I like the plans and the neighborhood is pretty stable as far as Buffalo goes but the proximity to Bennett is probably a problem. The loss of the radiators is probably no big deal given that the heating would be changed out anyway butselling them would have been a source of revenue.
The real issue here is the fact that the guy wants $1.8M more than he paid for it. In Buffalo a set of plans and a year of ownership just isn't worth that. I am sure the development community knows that which is probably why there hasn't been anyone taking a look-see. Get real about the sale price and sell this place or develop it.
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Jaimie
Okay, I'm getting pretty tired of reading Chris69's racist posts.
I've seen him make comments about: - Muslims - Asians - Jews
Is BuffaloRising going to do something about this joker?
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LivingForge
Add to that his rants about Black women whenever Buff State is mentioned.
I seriously think it is time for Chris69's account to be suspended and his IP address blocked.
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Texpat10
Are you guys reading a different post than I am? I don't see anything anti-semitic in Chris' post. Anti out of town developer maybe...
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iamBuffalosfuture
is there any way to track the metal items stolen? There must be alot of a-hole scrap dealers that take copper that they know is stolen. A police task force (ha ha) would probably put a dent in this problem. And how did this guy get such a sweet deal, sounds super fishy to me
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Einstein
Scrap dealers are licensed in New York, and New York has several laws on the books that limits the purchase of scrap metal, and more specifically copper, if the dealer feels that the items may be stolen. This is similar to the regulations put in place at pawn shops to prevent the fencing of stolen goods. The laws are on the books, they should either be enforced or removed. The theft of copper plumbing would be less attractive to theives if they had to verify their identity (we already have a law in place for this), the origin of the scrap (already a law in place), and if the scrap dealer was accountable for holding the goods if they were determined to be stolen.
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LivingForge
Texpat, everything was edited out last night.
Insert the phrases "[deleted]" "[deleted]" and "[deleted] developer" where you see edits have been made.
What happened to suspending accounts BRO? Banning IP addresses?
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Texpat10
Ahh...that explains it...I am reading a different post.
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Keith
Think of Chris69 as our little Reverend Wright but at least on BRO you can click that little "Avoid User" link at the bottom of his messages if you want (no such luck with the Reverend).
Personally, I am against suspending accounts and banning IP addresses. If you want to ignore someone then do so, but let the rest of us have the option to read him or not.
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Andrew
yes this seems pretty shadey indeed. i like how the asking price has gone up about $2m.
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magnum
Wow, an entire post about chris69. Lets get back to the issue, a flipper (and possible thief) has taken advantage of Buffalo. When is the city going to do something about this.
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