The annual Guinness Toast Fest to benefit the Buffalo Irish Center will take place on Friday, February 18 starting at 6PM. Entertainment will be provided by many of WNY’s finest Irish groups including: Penny Whiskey, The Leftovers, Blarney Bunch, Poor Ould Goat, Stone Row, Dustmen, Lochside Celtic Band,, Sons of the Gaels ,St. Mary’s Road, Reardon & Garvey, Kindred, Clancy Bros. Tribute Band, Rush the Growler, Bards of Brewery, Cairde and Rince na Tiarna dancers. Food will be available for purchase. Chinese auctions and door prizes will add to the festivities. This annual event features music in all 3…
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For those who are looking to get away from the snow and heat things up on the dance floor or just want to try something new and fun, look no further than “Dancing from the Heart” presented by STORM Buffalo. This is the dance choreography company’s third fundraiser to benefit the Variety Kids Telethon. Run by Tommy Radon from Fred Astaire Dance Studios, STORM continues their mission of bringing the joy of dancing into people’s hearts, as well as the community together to support a great cause. “I do it to raise money for kids who are less fortunate and for…
So you thought the closing of the Statler was bad news for Buffalo? In what could be a devastating blow to downtown and its commercial real estate market, HSBC is considering moving out of its iconic HSBC Center office space when its lease expires in 2013 While the rumor of the bank looking at its options has been circulating for weeks, The Buffalo News got the bank to confirm its space search. HSBC employees occupy 2/3 of the 38-story building straddling Main Street, or 650,000 sq.ft. The bank says it is looking at options while also negotiating with current landlord…
West Buffalo Charter School (WBCS) says it may be forced to find a temporary location while a legal battle wages over its attempts to acquire as its permanent home the former Public School #36 in Days Park. WBCS is currently working on options for a temporary location that meets its standards and that can accommodate 162 K-2 students in its first year of operation. Within two years the school is expected to have 270 students in grades K-4. A Founding Trustee of WBCS, Joseph Cozzo, President and CEO of Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center, explained that for more than a…
Bidding for Olympic Towers at 300 Pearl Street ended today. It is not known if the final bid will be accepted by the seller however. The drama unfolded online. The auction opened Tuesday with a minimum bid set at $1 million. The bidding moved up in $250,000 increments until reaching $1.75 million. Subsequent bidding was in $100,000 steps. Bidding appeared stalled at $1.95 million as the scheduled 3 pm end time drew close. An additional four and a half minutes were added to the clock when a $2.05 million bid came in. As that time ran out, a $2.15 million…
Buffalo doesn’t have a Walmart store, but could soon have its traffic. A dilapidated plaza in West Seneca could be the home of a new Walmart Store under plans announced yesterday. Access to the store will be from a driveway loacted in the city. The 2400 Seneca Street property has been the home of Twin Fair, Gold Circle and Ames stores in the past. It has been vacant for eight years. The proposed store would be 115,000 sq.ft. and employ 300. Despite persistent rumors of Walmart looking in the Hertel/Delaware/Elmwood area of North Buffalo for a store location, the big…
Work is starting on Union Ship Canal Commons today, a new public green space located within the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park. Mayor Brown will be joined by New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation Regional Director Abby Snyder, Erie County Executive Chris Collins, and NYS Senator William Stachowski at 3 PM today. The 22-acre Union Ship Canal Commons includes the canal and a 200′ buffer around it. The park is the signature feature of Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park located east of Route 5 along the Buffalo/Lackawanna border. Development of the park will be an amenity for the area by providing residents,…
The former Acheson Hall on UB’s South Campus has been stripped down. The 147,000-square-foot structure, vacant since 1994, is the future home of the School of Pharmacy. Kapoor Hall will be the first facility designed specifically for the needs and anticipated growth of UB Pharmacy, which is ranked in the top 25 pharmacy schools in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report. Kapoor Hall is named in honor of alumnus John N. Kapoor, who as a college graduate in India received a scholarship from UB that allowed him to complete a Ph.D. in 1972. A highly successful entrepreneur…
Terrence McGee is moving downtown. The Buffalo Bills corner back purchased a sixteenth floor condominium in Avant. According to County Clerk records, McGee paid $575,000 for the 1,676 sq.ft., two-bedroom, two bath unit. The Avant includes a 150-room Embassy Suites hotel on the first seven floors and 128,000 sq.ft. of office space on floors 8 through 12. Law firm Damon & Morey has taken two of the floors. Each use has separate entrances and elevators, but share many of the Embassy Suites’ features and services. The building, developed by Uniland Development and designed by Stieglitz Snyder Architecture, opened last July. The building’s…
Portland, Oregon’s Bureau of Environmental Services is in the midst of a multi-year project that is changing the look of a large section of Southeast Portland. The changes are part of the Tabor to the River program, which will improve storm-water drainage in the Brooklyn Creek Basin, an area with a history of flooding problems. Tabor to the River integrates hundreds of sewer, green stormwater management, tree planting and other projects to improve sewer system reliability, stop sewer backups into basements and street flooding, control combined sewer overflows to the Willamette River, and restore watershed health. Neighborhoods will have more street trees…