The to-be renovated Sattler Theater at 512-16 Broadway could soon be surrounded by an “urban village.” In March, the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency designated Temple Community Development Corporation (TCDC), a subsidiary of Pentecostal Temple COGIC, developer for the former Buffalo Forge site which the City expects to purchase shortly. With approximately 14 acres, TCDC will be working on one of the largest development-ready sites in the city. In 2006, Howden Buffalo applied for and received permission to demolish the factory covering a full city block along Broadway, Sycamore, Spring and Mortimer streets due to unsafe conditions and structural problems. The…
Author: Laila Bondi
A Cobblestone District commercial building has a new owner. J. Roger Trettel’s 1876 Buehl Block LLC purchased the two-story brick building at 49 Illinois Street last Monday. Roger has two property renovations under his belt downtown- the Buehl Block and adjacent 285 Ellicott Street. Plans for the property located behind HSBC Arena and Buffalo Rising’s offices are not set but Trettel reportedly is not likely to convert the 8,888 sq.ft. property to residential use.
The former Lutheran Nursing Home property at 1040 Delaware Avenue is again being targeted for a residential project. This time around, the existing building may come down and replaced with apartment or condo unts according to today’s Buffalo News. Plaza Group sold the vacant property to 1040 Delaware, LLC yesterday for $400,000. Plaza Group had owned the Delaware Avenue property located between W. Utica and Lexington Avenue since March 2000. In September 2006, the developer announced plans to convert the property into approximately 45 apartments. Plaza Group has since retreated from the residential market to focus on its numerous office…
The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) is hosting kick-off ‘community work sessions’ Tuesday and Wednesday to work with Fruitbelt and Allentown neighborhood residents and stakeholders on implementing plans for the area. Acknowledging that putting plans into action is a real challenge, the BNMC will be engaging residents, business owners, community leaders and employees over the next six months to identify steps for moving plans towards implementation.
Priced out of the new Gates Circle and 200 Delaware Avenue projects? There is a more affordable Delaware Avenue condominium option now available at 849 Delaware. Prices in the apartment-to-condo conversion project start at $85,900. Built in 1961, the nine-story building just north of Barker contains 48 one and two-bedroom units that have been renting from $850 to $1195. One-bedroom, one bath units with 539 sq.ft. of living space are priced from $85,900 to $103,900. A larger 867sq.ft. one-bedroom plan with a full plus a half bath is priced from $130,000 to $152,900. The two-bedroom plan (floorplan below) includes a…
This is the first year in my life that family has not done a St. Joseph’s table. My mother is out of town, my house is too small and every year more family members move away. Anyway, I was feeling kind of sorrowful (it is, after all, my favorite holiday), then my father told me that the Armory Restaurant does a table every year. I promptly called them and was informed that dinner was sold out but there were lunchtime seats left. As a bit of background on the Armory Restaurant, it’s on Connecticut Street, near Plymouth. It looks like…
Back in November of 2007, almost 500 people attended the world premiere of Release the Funny at the Riviera Theatre. There are a couple of Buffalo-based opportunities coming up to catch the flick, one of which is during the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival (BNFF) this month. Release The Funny (trailer) is a 91-minute collection of 10 comedy shorts produced by Jerry and Beth MacKay, creators of Littleflick Pictures. All 10 of the shorts were shot and filmed in Buffalo, with Mr. MacKay directing. Featuring more than 80 actors from the Western New York area, some of the shorts included in…
“There is a renaissance going on in Buffalo,” Lynne Bader-Gregory Senior Producer at WNED begins, “and this part of the population is going to play a big part.” Ms. Bader-Gregory is referring to the teen population in and around Buffalo. What part they are going to play in our collective future as a city can be gleaned from the upcoming Our City: Buffalo, premiering March 19 on WNED, and March 23 on Think Bright TV. Our City: Buffalo was put together with stories exploring different facets of Buffalo all seen through the eyes of local students, who were responsible for…
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum is having its second Buffalo Small Press Book Fair on Saturday, March 22nd from 12-6pm. The event serves as a chance for writers, artists, and cultural workers from the Great Lakes Region to come together and showcase their wares. As an added attraction to the book sale, poetry readings, performances, discussions and related lectures are scheduled to go on throughout the day. This event was held last year in Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum’s Porter Hall at 453 Porter Avenue. Porter Hall if one of the library’s two museums in the Buffalo area and one of nine…
Recently there was a post about the Writers and Politics Series being held today. The focus is on Herman Melville and James Joyce, and bringing up James Joyce brings up an interesting fact about Buffalo. The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo (UB) is the largest collection of Joyce’s working papers in the entire world. There are over 10,000 scanned pages available for viewing in the reading room of the Poetry Collection. The papers are only available there because copyright restrictions prevent wider access. UB acquired the papers from three different places, the first of which came in the…