The Salvation Army of Buffalo is proposing to revitalize their nearly three-acre campus along Main Street by providing a seven-story 147-unit apartment building and three-story 80-bed emergency shelter along Main Street, and 16 two-story townhouses along North Pearl Street. The existing building at 960 Main Street will remain and continue to be utilized for The Salvation Army administrative and program space. To facilitate the project, existing buildings on The Salvation Army campus at 954, 970, 984, and 1000 Main Street would be demolished.
The proposed apartments will include studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units with the ground floor of the seven-story building consisting of common areas and amenities for the residents as well as program and administrative space for The Salvation Army. 2238 sq.ft. of commercial space is proposed at north end of the apartment building.
The townhouse units, gathered in groups of 3-4 units, provide a residential scale along North Pearl Street and the Allentown neighborhood. All of the townhomes are three-bedroom units.
The emergency shelter is comprised of 32 units for the 80 beds, and the ground floor will house program spaces to support the shelter residents.
The sitework consists of a front plaza at Main Street, an interior courtyard for the residents and staff, and interconnecting walkways for movement within the campus. A total of 59 new parking spots are proposed, with an additional 40 spots in an existing parking lot located across North Pearl Street.
Collectively the materials proposed for the project are face brick veneer, fiber cement lap siding/board & batten/panels, pre-finished metal panels. Townhomes use a variety of face brick, lap siding, and board & batten siding to create a variety of smaller facades. The new shelter building uses more brick in a formal composition of a heavy base with panel/lap siding above which relates to the adjacent existing masonry building to remain.
The seven-story apartment building has a masonry base with numerous aluminum storefront windows and the upper floors are a mix of additional masonry and fiber cement panels with metal panel accents. The composure of the apartment building reflects the context of the medical campus across the street but in a more traditional aesthetic.
The project, under review by the City, is designed by SWBR.