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Construction Watch: New Build @ 186 Middlesex: (you don't see mansions being built in Buffalo very often anymore. Though not significantly architecturally significant, it represents new wealth coming into the city, - a welcome occurrence).
Full speed ahead! The $4.4 million reconstruction of downtown Buffalo's historic Inner Harbor street grid is underway. With Canal Side's tight deadline looming over the Erie Canal Harbor development team, workers can be seen putting up the bones for new streets.
The work will consist of the four cobblestone streets including Prime, Lloyd, Perry, and Hanover. Installation of granite curbing is nearly complete. Exposed aggregate concrete sidwalks, new street lighting, landscaping, and traffic signal work will contribute to the historic character of the Inner Harbor, designed to align with the existing street grid as much as possible, while retaining its historic location.
The work will consist of the four cobblestone streets including Prime, Lloyd, Perry, and Hanover. Installation of granite curbing is nearly complete. Exposed aggregate concrete sidwalks, new street lighting, landscaping, and traffic signal work will contribute to the historic character of the Inner Harbor, designed to align with the existing street grid as much as possible, while retaining its historic location.
The reconstruction project calls for the use of cobble pavers salvaged from the site; cobbles salvaged from Genesee Street in the city and cobbles salvaged from old cobblestone streets that match the existing pavers in Buffalo, but were once in place in Cleveland, Ohio. The City's Department of Public Works is overseeing the work.
The street network is scheduled to be completed next summer. Construction on Bass Pro and initial Canal Side components is expected to get underway in the spring.
Ellicott Development is dusting off renovation plans for the vacant Greystone hotel. Reuse proposals for the Greystone at 24 Johnson Park have come and gone in recent years, but according to Ellicott Development CEO Carl Paladino, he is now moving forward with a residential conversion project.
Current View:
"Greystone schematics are almost done," said Paladino in an email. He said the firm "will go into working drawings in the next 60 days" and then expects to obtain a building permit within 30 days of application to the City. Paladino said the project to take six months to complete.
The residential conversion projects keep rolling in. Ellicott Development is seeking Planning Board approval next Tuesday to convert the former Baker Shoes building at 456 Main Street into sixteen apartments and ground floor commercial space. The building is one to two stories along Main Street, but is eight stories along Pearl Street.
The residential conversion projects keep rolling in. Ellicott Development is seeking Planning Board approval next Tuesday to convert the former Baker Shoes building at 456 Main Street into sixteen apartments and ground floor commercial space. The building is one to two stories along Main Street, but is eight stories along Pearl Street.
Ellicott Development has a growing portfolio of residential properties in the city. The firm was one of the pioneers of downtown housing with the rehabs of the University Club, now The Bellasara, and the former L.L. Berger Department Store, rechristened The Belesario. The company has also built townhouses on Lakefront Drive, is continuing work at the Waterfront Place development, is moving forward with plans to rehab the Greystone, and recently purchased the Grace Manor Nursing Home on Symphony Circle.
Also on next week's Planning Board agenda is Ellicott Development's residential and commercial project at 960 Busti Avenue.
You gotta check out all of this development throughout the neighborhood in the past week! New houses and renovations, new upgrades, landscaping, sidewalks, lighting, parks, etc, etc. This is absolutely terrific. More on this tomorrow, but check out the link!
An Extreme Model For Success? Ya gotta love This City!
And, check out this link for tons of updated photos! - http://www.flickr.com/photos/thehydraulics/ (broken link)
I hear they are doing one of those "extreme makovers" too...any pics on that?
See above, and I'm touring the entire neighborhood around the extreme makeover (where the whole neighborhood was cleaned up and upgraded), tomorrow for a photo shoot for B.R.O..
Mark Croce's redevelopment of the vacant Curtiss Building into downtown Buffalo's largest boutique hotel is underway. Interior asbestos removal and gutting is taking place, while a giant hole sits where the beloved Continental once stood. Demolition of the former nightclub was recently completed.
The prominent building on the corner of Huron and Franklin streets will see new life as a 59-room hotel with a day spa, full service three-meal restaurant, and extensive banquet facilites. The redevelopment will use the latest in sustainable design and green technology. A new penthouse level will be added to the building.
A drop-off area is planned where the Continental once stood, topped by two-levels of banquet space.
[IMG]A drop-off area is planned where the Continental once stood, topped by two-levels of banquet space.[/IMG]
Interior gutting can be seen in the 204 Franklin Street building:
The $19 million renovation will add to the emerging Huron Street corridor, and will contribute to the mounting effort to make downtown a 24/7 neighborhood.
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