The certification makes the city eligible to participate in up to $650 million in state funding to incentivize housing growth.
Jonathan D. Epstein
News Business Reporter
About
I've been a business reporter at The Buffalo News since 2004, now covering residential and commercial real estate and development amid WNY's resurgence. I'm an upstate native, proud to call Buffalo my home, and committed to covering it thoroughly.
DePaul Developmental Services, which focuses on people with developmental disabilities and mental illness, and Eagle Star Housing, which serves homeless veterans, are proposing to construct a pair of one-story ranch-style group homes that together will house 34 people.
ECMC spokesman Peter Cutler said Buchheit was in stable condition, and an employee for Buchheit's highway-paving company, Accent Stripe, said other company officials were with him.
As work continues on Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Centennial Park, the Buffalo Urban Development Corp. just got a $1.63 million from the Great Lakes Commission for the $110 million construction project.
Three years after the Voelker family closed its longtime bowling alley on Buffalo's West Side and sought to tear down the deteriorating building, the 130-year-old structure is finally poised to be demolished, with a developer planning to construct a five-story apartment building.
For the second time in two years, state lawmakers have passed new mandates for the brownfield program that developers say could make already costly projects even more expensive.
The developer is already thinking about a host of opportunities for his extensive new holdings in downtown Buffalo.
The former local headquarters for Bethlehem Steel and later Gibraltar Industries is poised for a major overhaul that will turn it into a campus with apartments, condominiums, office space, a hotel and a restaurant.
The new Hope On Main emergency shelter is the first stage of the Salvation Army's larger project on Main Street.