A Midtown Main Street building is in line for a facelift. Agassiz Holdings is proposing storefront improvements to the building that up until recently housed the Mid-City Post Office at 1245 Main at Northampton Street. Louis Design Solutions Architecture LLC is designing the work.
From The Buffalo News:
According to documents filed with the Planning Board, a prior owner of the 0.82-acre site “at some point in the past” removed the storefronts and filled in the openings with concrete block.
The first phase of the $100,000 project focuses on the first bay from the northeast corner of the building, which once housed a post office branch, but now has a raised loading dock area with a truck “apron” that were constructed over a steel frame, more than nine feet over the ground. The dock, apron and a below-grade space accessible from the building are in bad shape, so the owner decided to take them out instead. The dock will be demolished to grade level, with the existing parking area extended into that space, while a new retaining wall with a wrought-iron fence will be constructed.
The building has 18,325 sq.ft. of space and is located adjacent to the ArtSpace complex. The post office closed earlier this year after Agassiz Holdings decided not to renew its lease. Neighbors say a dance studio will be taking space in the building.