Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services was one of the first recipients of funding through the Better Buffalo Fund, a $30 million Buffalo Billion initiative dedicated to projects that encourage density and growth along transportation corridors and revitalize neighborhood commercial districts. A total of $11,722,500 was awarded to 21 projects, including nine on the East Side. One of the awardees, Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services in partnership with the Fillmore Corridor Neighborhood Coalition, is kicking its neighborhood- based Main Street program into high gear with a meeting this Tuesday.
The $300,000 Main Street program will target existing commercial business owners, property owners looking for facade improvement assistance, and new businesses looking to locate in the neighborhood surrounding the Broadway Market.
The community presentation will detail findings from a Community Assessment Report that focused on the revitalization of the two Fillmore Corridor neighborhood business districts of Broadway-Fillmore and Martin Luther King. Teresa Lynch, one of the two Main Street specialists who participated in the June Assessment Visit and authored the follow-up report, will:
- Describe present status of Fillmore Forward, the Fillmore Corridor organization charged with managing revitalization activities for both the MLK and Broadway-Fillmore commercial districts.
- Introduce members of the Fillmore Forward board as well as committee volunteers who have already signed on to help.
- Present the Assessment Report observational highlights and recommendations which will form the basis for a work plan undertaken by Fillmore Forward’s four volunteer committees.
- Explain the Main Street Four Point Approach to downtown and neighborhood business district revitalization.
- Allow for a Question and Answer period to get comments and respond to questions from the audience.
The meeting will take place Tuesday, October 6 at the Lt. Col Matt Urban Human Services Center of W.N.Y. Community Hall – 3rd Floor – 1081 Broadway from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.