The latest round of Better Buffalo Fund awards contained funding for previously known projects but there were a few surprises. Rocco Termini received a $359,000 boost to convert a former rooming house at 72 Sycamore Street into an arts hub with live/work units and office space. The future of the site was in a bit of doubt when a neighboring structure was torched and had to be demolished (below). Also getting a boost was Cedarland Development’s redevelopment of the Eckhardt Building at the northwest corner of Broadway and Fillmore into a mix of uses (above). Cedarland is now proposing first…
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Work is underway on the first apartment buildings in LPCiminelli’s Highland Park project. Phase I of Highland Park consists of 3.91+/- acres and incorporates four multi-family residential buildings designed by HHL Architects that have thirteen units each. Each building will house four one-bedroom units and one two-bedroom ADA accessible unit on the ground floor and eight two-story units above. Fifty-six off-street parking spaces will be available for the multi-family buildings. Apartments range in size from a one-bedroom plan with 690 sq.ft. of space renting from $925 to a two-bedroom, two-story unit with 1,430 sq.ft. of living space renting from $1,675.…
The first glass is in on the new building at 500 Pearl Street. Ellicott Development’s mixed-use project at Pearl and W. Tupper Street is scheduled for completion this fall. 500 Pearl will be anchored by a 112-room Aloft Hotel. It will also contain parking on the first six levels, 52,000 sq.ft. of office space on the seventh and eighth floor, and 14 apartments. Ellicott is said to be in talks with a restaurant group for some of the project’s retail/restaurant space. On the Pearl Street side of the project, the Buffalo Christian Center building is being incorporated into the development.…
Foundation work is underway for a mixed-use building at 474 Seneca Street. Buffalo Bungalow, a home building and contracting company owned by Derek and Laura Sullivan, is constructing a three-story building with ground floor retail and one residential unit on both the second and third floors. The design of the project is a nod to a building that stood on the site until it was demolished in 2012. The first floor will include 1,000 sq.ft. of commercial space and Buffalo Bungalow’s new offices. The second and third floors will each have a 1,400 sq.ft., two bedroom, two bath apartment. They…
An apartment building that could have been from the set of Rapunzel at the corner of Richmond Avenue and Connecticut Street and an adjacent residential building and duplex have new owners. Sutton Development and partners purchased 232 and 240 Richmond Avenue and 19 Ripley Place on Monday and have plans to significantly upgrade the properties. The corner building at 232 Richmond contains 17 apartments and 9,662 sq.ft. of space and was purchased for $659,000. 240 Richmond next door with 26 units and 11,326 sq.ft. of space and a duplex at 19 Ripley Place was purchased for $1.625 million. Stephen Townsend…
Upper Niagara Street has seen a number of new projects both large and small in the past few years. They, along with streetscape upgrades now out to bid by the City, promise big improvements to the street. The neighborhood is transforming from a predominantly industrial past to a mixed-use future and has attracted a few of the bigger names in local development circles including Ciminelli Real Estate and Ellicott Development. Here’s a look at what is happening. Monarch 716 – 100 Forest Avenue. Near but not on Niagara Street, DHD Ventures built this 176-unit apartment complex geared to college students. …
A townhome development at 197 West Utica is moving forward. Developer Skyline Centro expects to break ground on the five-unit project next month after receiving State approval to sell the units. “We’ll sign contracts for a general contractor by the end of this week, and plan to have shovels into the ground in early April with an expected completion date in October or so,” says Skline Centro president Tim Horner. “We received approval from the New York State Attorney General’s office last week to offer the townhomes for sale, and kicked off marketing this week. That was a big deal, a six-month…
Why stop at two? HELP USA is planning a third residential project on Broadway. The New York City-based organization is seeking to purchase a vacant City-owned property at 330 Broadway at Walnut Street to construct a five-story building with 60 apartments. The proposed $20.2 million project, HELP Buffalo III, will target homeless individuals and low income families in need of affordable housing. Of the 60 units, 30 will be reserved for homeless individuals with serious mental illness and or substance use disorder and will be rented to those at or below 30 percent of the Area Median Income. The remaining units…
Rocco Termini is working his magic at the former Linde Air Manufacturing complex at 155 Chandler Street. As progress photos show, the final result will be stunning. The building will be anchored by software development firm Utilant, a current tenant at his Foundry Lofts project, and ceramic technology firm EnrG. They are expected to move into their space by May 1. BMS Design is the design and preservation lead and Schenne & Associates is architect for the $8 million project. Termini purchased the 80,000 sq.ft. building in February 2017 and it was later added to the National Register of Historic…
2017 was a big year for downtown area development with two game-changing projects wrapping up and a third starting construction. UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital opened bringing thousands of employees and visitors to the burgeoning Medical Campus. In downtown proper, Douglas Jemal shocked skeptics when he kicked-off his multi-phased effort to bring new life to the Seneca One complex. Map pdf here Residential Residential development continues to grab the headlines downtown despite developers venturing into other city neighborhoods for adaptive reuse projects. Six downtown developments were completed this year with…