Renovations to McKinley High School on Elmwood south of Amherst Street, which began in April of this year and are scheduled for completion in August of 2012, will give the school a brand new entrance and four story addition. Originally constructed in 1964 to house a traditional vocational school, McKinley Comprehensive High School of Choice was designed without a formal entrance. The new addition will serve to remedy this problem by providing a covered pedestrian walkway through a canopied entry court into the new main lobby. The three upper floors of the addition will house 20 new classrooms. The $50 million…
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The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) will be receiving a much needed 1,800 parking spaces with the addition of a new $34 million parking ramp. The project, planned for the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and High Street, has been approved by the Buffalo Planning Board and is scheduled to be be completed in 2012. The BNMC presently offers about 6,500 parking spaces for 12,000 daily visitors including 8,500 employees. With the opening of Kaleida Health’s Global Vascular Institute in 2011 as well as a planned 390-bed long-term care facility scheduled to open in 2012 across from the ramp…
Kaleida Health’s new nursing home project along Michigan Avenue in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus received major financial backing Monday in the form of a $51.9 million FHA loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This financing will save the project an estimated $22.1 million in interest expense over the life of the loan. Since 1968, FHA has insured 392 mortgages to hospitals throughout the nation, 51 within the past five years. The new 300-bed nursing home facility will replace two smaller, outdated facilities, the 242-bed Deaconess Center on Humboldt Parkway and the 75-bed skilled-nursing unit…
Ciminelli Real Estate Corporation’s proposed medical office building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is being shifted west to Main Street. Previous plans called for a medical office tower at High and Ellicott streets on the site of the 50 High Street office building that was demolished in 2007. The new location on Main between High and Goodrich is currently occupied by surface parking and a one-story medical building that will be demolished. The eastern portion of the block is earmarked for future development. Ciminelli officials say the building, which is still in the design stage, will serve as the ‘face’ of the north end…