Sinatra & Company Real Estate is renovating the former Casa di Pizza location at 477 Elmwood into five apartments and first floor commercial space.
Apartments will include three one-bedroom apartments ranging from 645 to 755 sq.ft. and two two-bedroom units ranging from 932 to 970 sq.ft. One of the one-bedroom apartments will be restricted as affordable. Market-rate units are expected to range from $1,105 to $2,200 according to information provided to the Erie County Industrial Development Agency which provided tax breaks for the project.
Sinatra purchased the property in 2016 for $1.25 million. At the time, the company was bidding to redevelop the Children’s Hospital campus and had proposed demolishing the building and replacing it with a four-story building anchored by a Dash’s Market and residential space. That proposal was dropped when Sinatra teamed with Ellicott Development on the campus redevelopment project.