Plans for construction of a six-story mixed-use building at the corner of Ellicott and Virginia streets have been submitted to the City for review. Ellicott Virginia LLC and Oak-Michigan Housing Development Fund Company, Inc. are proposing to construct the building on a 1.64-acre site in the northwest corner of the McCarley Gardens complex. It would include 220 apartments, structured and surface parking and commercial space. Carmina Wood Design is project architect.
From the application:
The Applicant is seeking to expand upon the improvements to the existing McCarley Gardens development by adding an additional approximately 220 workforce/affordable and market-rate housing units to a 1.64-acre portion of the northwest corner of 172 Goodell Street. This second phase of the McCarley Gardens renovation project is a crucial step in bringing urban amenities to residents of McCarley Gardens, the Fruit Belt and the broader Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Surrounding residential developments have a long waitlist for units at all price points, underscoring both demand and need for additional housing to accommodate the influx of young professionals and health care workers employed at Medical Campus that to seek urban living arrangements.
The Applicant is seeking, on a parallel path with the requested Site Plan approval to rezone the Site to D-M and an exchange and subdivision approval to re-route North Oak Street from its intersection at Ellicott Street, instead straight north to intersect with Virginia Street.
The applicant is currently renovating McCarley Gardens’ 135 units in 21 townhome-style buildings that were built in 1978. As part of the rehabilitation project, four additional two-story townhome buildings with a total of 14 units are being constructed on the campus.