Buffalo Jewish Federation CEO Rob Goldberg addresses a crowd gathered for the unveiling of a new mural at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Ce…
Jonathan D. Epstein
News Business Reporter
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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.
Buffalo's economic development commissioner, building owners, developers and others say the key lies in remaking downtown so it's not reliant as much on daytime workers but rather on its new permanent residents, evening diners, nighttime revelers and weekend visitors.
The BMHA, in the last of three major redevelopments of the city's aging public housing, intends to demolish an outdated community and replace it with new construction over several years.
Uniland Development Co. says it was chosen by the city to develop a new consolidated campus for the Department of Public Works' street maintenance, trash removal and snow-clearing operations. There's just one problem: The city hasn't actually made that decision yet.
City officials plan to apply for a $3.5 million state grant for Douglas Jemal's redevelopment of the former Statler Hotel, helping the developer remove an impediment to his goal of putting in parking in the building's lower level.
Industrial development agencies aren't primarily funded by state or local budgets, but by the transaction fees that the project applicants pay when their projects receive tax breaks. Those fees are considered by the state as service charges to pay for project administration, usage, processing, issuing bonds or other functions.
Just months after buying the former Saturn Rings or Byers Building in downtown Buffalo's Theatre District, a Long Island developer whose wife went to University at Buffalo plans to convert it into market-rate apartments and ground-floor retail.
Twenty-seven new homes are poised to come to Clarence, if town officials give them the green light.
A mixed-use development planned for the North Aud Block at Canalside in Buffalo and an expansion of the visitor center by the Graycliff Conservancy will receive a total of $3.5 million in state grants from Empire State Development Corp.