Via Buffalo Business First
By David Bertola
After selling its building, creating a new foundation and spinning off its top programs, Buffalo Christian Center is closing.
Last year, new Buffalo Christian Center leadership examined how its building at 512 Pearl Street could be leveraged to accomplish the organization’s mission of serving local at-risk youth through its myriad programs. In doing so, it was determined that the building would need more than $5 million in renovations. ...
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RealtyUSA crossing Delaware for new home for commercial unit
Via Buffalo Business First
By Jim Fink
An expansion plan by Lawley Insurance is prompting RealtyUSA to relocate its commercial real estate division in Buffalo.
Next month, RealtyUSA’s commercial division will be moving from its longtime home in the Pleu Building at the corner of Delaware Avenue and Tupper Street to literally just across the street to another building at 344 Delaware Ave. Both buildings are owned by Ellicott Development Co.
RealtyUSA had been a tenant in ...
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Construction Watch: 199 Scott Street
Via Buffalo Rising
By WC Perspective
A controversial billboard on the west façade of 199 Scott Street has been removed as Ellicott Development Company’s substantial redevelopment project enters its final stages. An Ellicott Development representative says that windows will soon be added to the building where the billboard used to hang. The first commercial tenant has moved into the building’s office space and residential tenants will begin moving in next month.
Built in 1920, ...
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Apartments planned for former school in Kenmore
Via Buffalo News
By Joseph Popiolkowski
A mostly vacant school in the heart of Kenmore would see new life as apartments and retail space under plans before the village Planning Board.
The former George Washington Elementary School, 1 Delaware Road, would be redeveloped into 20 market-rate, one- and two-bedroom apartments, according to plans of Ellicott Development Co., which purchased the 51,000-square-foot building last year for $725,000. A single-story, 5,500-square-foot ...
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Growing Liazon shows off new offices in Buffalo
Via Buffalo Business First
By Tracy Drury
Six weeks after completing the move to its new offices at the Fairmont Creamery building, Liazon is ramping up its staffing rapidly.
The company has moved its 130 local employees into the 15,000-square-foot eighth floor space on Scott Street, but plans to add dozens more this summer as the seventh floor space is built out.
Liazon, a private benefits exchange operator, is the anchor tenant at the eight-story building, a ...
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Fairmont Creamery, Compass East make Start-Up NY list
Via Buffalo Business First
By Dan Miner
Ellicott Development Co.’s Fairmont Creamery building, at 199 Scott St., and McGuire Development Co.’s Compass East building, at 425 Michigan Ave., now headline the downtown spaces available for a signature state tax abatement initiative.
Both buildings were included in the University at Buffalo’s amended Start-Up NY plan, which included new spaces in presumed anticipation of pending projects. UB officials have declined to discuss ...
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Buffalo Living Tour this Saturday featuring Two Ellicott Dev. Properties
This free tour will be held on Saturday, June 21 from 11am to 4pm, with a happy hour to follow. Six downtown locations stops are on the tour, including two Ellicott Development locations, The Fairmont at 199 Scott Street and The Graystone at 24 S. Johnson Park. For more information, visit the Buffalo Living Tour website.
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Buffalo LIVING Tour offers a special incentive to visit all six (6) locations on the Tour. Just get your map and punch card ...
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