Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) officially broke ground this week on their new nursing home building on their Grider Street Health Campus. The new building will cost $103 million and will contain 390 beds. The facility is slated to open next December as the replacement for the 80 year old Erie County nursing home in Alden. Changing the location from Alden to Buffalo is key in order to move residents closer to their families, reduce costs for ECMC, and move employees closer to their homes. “Moving our county home residents to a new, modern facility at ECMC will benefit residents,…
Author: Mike Puma_old
Considering the National Trust for Historic Preservation is coming in four months, the logical thought would be that developers and others would be scrambling to show their recent preservation efforts. Not so much for a row of commercial buildings along Michigan Avenue near the recently rehabilitated Alling and Cory Building. Although the details surrounding the demolition permit are not known, the Buffalo Preservation Board had tabled a demolition request from property owner Crestline Development in March. Beginning this past Saturday, this historic stretch of buildings fell prey to the wrecking ball in order to likely provide more parking despite sketchy…
Value-engineering may be king, particularly in the real estate business, but there are those that still seek out quality craftsmanship. Take for instance Buffalo Plastering and Architectural Casting at 315 Hinman Avenue in north Buffalo. Their impressive work can be found in many of the area’s restored architectural treasures. Gary Bolles started the firm in 1989 after working as an apprentice under old world craftsmen. He currently boasts 30 years of experience in the trade. Bolles later partnered with European-trained sculptor Leo Lysy who oversees the ornamental and sculpting aspects of their work. For the last twenty years Gary, Leo,…
Ricotta and Visco is not wasting any time converting 496 Main Street into its new home. The law firm is spending $1.5 million to redevelop the long-underutilized downtown building that sits at the reawakening corner of Main and Mohawk. The firm purchased the four-story, 11,440 sq. ft. property in March for $385,000 from Kent Keating. When Keating bought the building in 2007 he had plans to renovate the building for commercial and residential uses, but later decided against it. Dean Sutton Architects is designing the new project which is expected to be ready for occupancy by the end of the year.
Niccolo Machiavelli’s masterful farce THE MANDRAKE had a rousing opening at the Irish Classical Theatre (Thursday, March 3). This production features a boisterous and talented cast, a super set design, not just a little bawdy humor, and the voice of an angel as the cherry on top. Machiavelli may be better known to most of us as the author of the 16th century political treatise “The Prince”, a ruthless, cut-throat theory of political domination, long favored by absolute monarchs and the occasional governor of Wisconsin. You may remember “The Prince” from your 6th grade World History class. “It is far…
Gothic, evocative and highly stylized, this production almost lost me in the beginning as I watched actor Andrew Kottler ride a pantomime horse onto the stage with a “Clippity Clop” sound effect. When actors David Oliver and (the lovely and excellent) Ms. Cassie Gorniewicz initiated their very angular movements (a la Martha Graham) and then indulged a primal scream or two to set the mood, I thought, ” Whoa, this is going to be a long evening.” However, one quickly adapts to the very broad brushstrokes of melodrama which Director Vincent O’Neill uses to paint this story, which is a nightmare, really. By all appearances, most of the…
Capital Management Services, Inc. (CMS), a nationally licensed collection agency, headquartered in Buffalo, and Larkin Development Group propose to construct a new 56,000 sq.ft, two-story headquarters building and operations center for Capital Management Services to be located at southeast corner of Seneca and Hydraulic streets, in the resurgent Larkin District. 111 Hydraulic Street would be home to approximately 1,000 CMS associates, and would represent the firm’s latest generation of efficient layout and technology that has been one of the hallmarks of the company’s success. “Since our inception, CMS has had a strategic relationship with Larkin Development. This new facility will accommodate continued…