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Road Less Traveled leads to a charming, spacious new home

Article via Buffalo News
By Colin Dabkowski

Road Less Traveled Productions has found a new home on a well-traveled stage, in the heart of what may soon be a bustling neighborhood.

The company announced plans Wednesday to move from its 90-seat space in the former Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre into the cavernous Forbes Theatre at 512 Pearl St. in time for the opening of its 2015-16 season in September.

The one-year deal between Road Less Traveled and building owner Ellicott Development comes five months after city officials announced the sale of the Market Arcade to an Amherst investment group with plans to convert it into an eight-screen AMC Theatre.

Road Less Traveled’s move also is the first public phase of an ambitious development plan for the neighborhood that Ellicott Development CEO William A. Paladino hinted would involve several of the company’s properties on the edge of the Theatre District. Paladino said the company would officially unveil its plans in the next month for the neighborhood and the building.

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Demand continues for city apartments

Article via WBFO
By Mike Desmond

The push for new apartments in downtown Buffalo appears to be moving farther and farther out from the Central Business District.

Ellicott Development is planning new townhouses and potentially another high-rise on the waterfront.

But the two projects it just took to the Zoning Board of Appeals were “brownfields,” a building at Niagara and Busti vacant for 20 years and a vacant field on Ohio Street unused for far longer. That’s a plan which might take some years, to gradually fill the space between the Buffalo Scholastic Rowing Association and a new city park.

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960 Busti Avenue Conversion to Include 18 Apartments and Commercial Space

Article via Buffalo Rising
By wcperspective

With the apartment market red hot, Ellicott Development Company is dusting off plans to put residential units in a four-story commercial building at 960 Busti Avenue. The company purchased the site in April 2008 along with a nearby property at 1050 Niagara Street from Ciminelli Development.

The circa-1930, 56,000 sq.ft. building is north of the Peace Bridge and overlooks the Niagara River. It was home to General Electric until about 1968 when Multiform Desiccants occupied the building until 1995. The building has been vacant for the past 20 years.

A reuse plan for the property prepared several years ago called for 23 residential units and commercial space. The new plan submitted to the City calls for 18 apartments on the third and fourth floors. The first two levels would include approximately 27,500 sq.ft. of commercial and retail space.

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Buffalo’s waterfront attracts more upscale housing

The coming of spring is likely to bring more new housing to Buffalo’s Waterfront, with a continuing demand to live on waterways.

The Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency has awarded development rights for a site on Lakefront Boulevard to Ciminelli Real Estate.

The next chapter for Ohio Street

Via The Buffalo News
By Mark Sommer

Ohio Street, once pitted and cracked, now has fresh asphalt – along with a bike trail and new streetlights being hooked up – after an $11 million project to turn it into an Outer Harbor gateway.

Now attention turns to transforming the blighted area surrounding the old industrial street into a vibrant neighborhood.

That is what a couple of established developers look to do, with projects to build luxury apartments, an office building and boat docks along the Buffalo River.

For years, dump trucks, cement mixers and tractor-trailers made up most of the traffic passing through the once-industrial area, so it could be tough to ride a bicycle on the road. But the planned rowing club, park and housing developments figure to draw more people. And a 12-foot-wide bike trail along the road will be attractive to cyclists.

The idea, of course, is that the improvements will resuscitate the area.

Carl Paladino said he expects to begin building three or four apartment buildings, each three or four stories high, next year.

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“The Fairmont” Nearing Completion

Via Buffalo Rising
By Tim Scanlon

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Finishing touches are being put on The Fairmont, Ellicott Development Company’s latest historical rehab project. The eight-story building has gone through a drastic transformation from vacant industrial space into a mix of office, apartments, retail space and a restaurant. The space is filled with industrial details that give a nod to the history of the building.

Interior common spaces feature several impressive contextual murals painted by Bogue Art Studios. Many more art works will soon be added both inside and outside the building.

Thirty apartments on floors three through five feature a spacious raw modern feel. The studio through three bedroom units range from 550 to 1,750 square feet. They contain such details as refinished concrete floors, quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, in-unit laundry, high structural ceilings and other industrial touches.

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Ellicott Development’s $10M Elmwood project approved

Via Buffalo Business First
By Jim Fink

With a key Buffalo approval in hand, Ellicott Development Co. is looking at a spring start for its latest mixed-use project in Buffalo.

The Buffalo Planning Board, Wednesday morning, gave unanimous approval to Ellicott Development for its proposed L-shaped, four-story building at the corner of Elmwood and W. Delavan avenues. Construction on the $10 million, privately-funded project will likely start in 2015’s first quarter once the former gas station site is remediated.

“This is a huge improvement for that corner,” said Buffalo attorney Horace Gioia, a planning board director

The building will include a 5,000-square-foot, street-level restaurant run by prominent local restaurateurs Henry Gorino and Chuck Mauro and 21 market-rate apartments. Some additional street-level retail, roughly 1,500-square-feet, is also planned.

“That corner is such an eyesore,” said Nicholas Sam, an Elmwood Village resident. “This is really going to change that corner.”

William Paladino, Ellicott Development president and CEO, said he hopes the building is tenant-ready by early 2016.

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Tim Hortons eyed for Niagara Street

via Buffalo Business First
By Jim Fink

Ellicott Development Co. has plans to move forward on a pair of restaurant-anchored projects in Buffalo, including one to bring a Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop to the lower West Side.

Both proposals will be vetted on Nov. 5 by the Buffalo Planning Board and, pending various city approvals, could be under construction by later this winter.

Planning board members will consider a proposal from Ellicott Development to construct a restaurant/retail combination on a nearly three-acre parcel along Niagara Street between Albany Street and Fargo Avenue. Ellicott Development has controlled the site for a number of years.

The property was home to the International Brewing Co. and American Gelatine Corp. in the early 1900s and was also home to a Gulf gas station on its northern end for four decades, ending in the late 1960s. The southern end of the parcel was home to Niagara Lithograph Co. and later Miken Cos. until 2000.

Tentative plans call for the development of a Tim Hortons outlet and an adjoining retail or restaurant.

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Kenmore building to see redevelopment

Via Tonawanda-News
By Amy Wallace

KENMORE — The Village Board put some of the finishing touches on a planned redevelopment of the former school building at 1 Delaware Road at its meeting Tuesday.

The board unanimously approved a certificate of appropriateness for the property that was purchased last year by developer Carl Paladino’s Ellicott Development Co., which was the former site of the Heritage Center and current location of Creative Child Daycare Center.

The building, the former George Washington Elementary School, was built in 1911 and is located at the intersection of Delaware Road and Delaware Avenue in the Village of Kenmore, adjacent to the village gazebo.

“The building was once designated with historical status in the ‘70s,” Mayor Patrick Mang said, explaining that it was only a local designation. “But that status was taken away when previous work was done on the building.”

According to Kenmore Clerk-Treasurer Kathleen Johnson, the resolution the board approved Tuesday means that a review had been done and no adverse effects were found to occur when the redevelopment moves forward.

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Paladino has big plans for track and rest of Fort Erie

Via Buffalo Business First By James Fink Fort Erie Race Track may eventually be surrounded by a hospitality and tourism-themed series of developments. Buffalo developer Carl Paladino hinted as much during a Tuesday briefing that came just hours after he and his investment partners — local business leaders Joel Castle and Joseph Mosey — completed … Read more

New track owners ‘want people to be encouraged’

Via Bullet News Niagara By Kris Dube FORT ERIE – The Fort Erie Race Track will be complimented with hospitality and tourism-focused development in the next five to six years, according to its new ownership. At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, the development team that has recently purchased the 117-year-old track and its surrounding … Read more

New owners of Fort Erie Track property introduced to media

Via Niagara Falls Review By Tony Ricciuto The new owners of the Fort Erie Race Track property have big plans for that parcel of land, but no specific details were released on Tuesday when a group of those investors were introduced to the media. Part of that plan might include a hotel development, but no … Read more

Paladino deal could spur development along Fort Erie’s QEW corridor

Via Buffalo Business First By James Fink The prospect of cross-border development opportunities, coupled with a neighboring auto racing track, piqued the interest of Carl Paladino and his frequent investment partners to purchase a 358-acre Fort Erie parcel, whose anchor tenant is the historic Fort Erie Race Track. The deal, which was completed today, offers … Read more

Paladino and partners, buyers of Fort Erie Race Track, plan to keep it open

Via The Buffalo News By Lisa Khoury Carl Paladino has purchased the Fort Erie Race Track, and he plans to keep the track open while developing the adjacent vacant property. The Buffalo developer, who closed on the deal Friday evening with business partners Bill Mosey and Joel Castle, said the group’s goals include developing the … Read more

Ellicott Development buys Lutheran Church Home

Via Buffalo News Ellicott Development Co. acquired the vacant Lutheran Church Home of Buffalo on the East Side earlier this week for $450,000, but is still evaluating its plans for redeveloping the property. Located at 217 and 227 East Delavan Ave., the 25,220-square-foot former assisted-living facility for the Niagara Lutheran Community was built in 1906, … Read more

Buffalo Christian Center to close; property sold to Ellicott

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 addition for offices, retail and restaurants also would be built on the west side of the building, facing Delaware Avenue.

“We thought right from the get-go that it was a great opportunity for an adaptive reuse-type project, something that would contribute to all of the activity in the village,” said Thomas M. Fox, project manager.

Village officials support the plans.

“It fits with our comprehensive plan with the mixed use and obviously with the look that complements the streetscape,” said Kenmore Clerk-Treasurer Kathleen Johnson.

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Growing Liazon shows off new offices in Buffalo

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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 126,000-square-foot site under development by Ellicott Development Co. Plans for the facility also include apartments, a microbrewery and a restaurant, along with commercial and business space.

By the 2014 fourth quarter — peak health benefits timing — the company expects to have another 40 employees on staff, with even more on board by the end of first quarter 2015.

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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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Ellicott Development wins Brick by Brick award

The 11th annual Brick by Brick awards were held on June 9th celebrating the top construction projects in Western New York. Ellicott Development’s restoration of The Graystone at 24 Johnson Park, Buffalo was named Best Historic Preservation Project. The Wyndham Garden Hotel and the Residences at the Mosey, Williamsville was runner-up in the category of … Read more

Ellicott to air Cantalician Center project plans

Via Buffalo Business First By Jim Fink Ellicott Development Co. has fine-tuned its plans for the former Cantalician Center property. Company representatives will present their proposal for the Eggertsville landmark when it meets on June 19 with the Amherst Planning Board. The Buffalo-based developer wants to invest at least $6 million turning the former Eggert … Read more

City zoning board approves Lockhouse plan

Via Buffalo Business First By Jim Fink The owners of a fledgling but popular vodka distillery have received a key approval from the Buffalo Zoning Board of Appeals, and are one step closer to opening in downtown Buffalo. Lockhouse Distillery next needs state and federal regulatory approval before the company can move into its new … Read more

Ellicott Development helps fill void for Ed Tech

Via Buffalo Business First By David Bertola After 11 years without an official home base, The Educational Tech Foundation moved into new office space in the Ellicott Square Building, thanks to the generosity of Ellicott Development Co. Ellicott Development donated 1,000 square feet of office space on the third floor of Ellicott Square Building. “Having … Read more

Distillery Proposed for Cobblestone District

Via Buffalo Rising by WCPerspective If you are looking for a fine cocktail or a bottle or case of vodka in coming months, you’ll be able to make one trip to the corner of Michigan and South Park avenues when a pair of projects get completed. Ellicott Development is seeking Zoning Board approvals to allow … Read more

Fairmont Transformed

Via Buffalo Rising by WCPerspective For the first time in at least 20 years, the Fairmont Creamery Co. building at 199 Scott Street has a tenant. Employee benefits firm Liazon moved into one floor of the building on Monday. The balance of the structure is being built out as apartments, retail space, and additional office … Read more

Liazon moving offices to Scott Street

Via The Buffalo News By Jonathan D. Epstein Liazon Corp., the Buffalo-based health insurance benefits exchange company that was acquired late last year, will be moving to its new offices in Buffalo next week. The company will move in to the eighth and top floor of the Fairmount Creamery Building at 199 Scott St. on … Read more

Rezoning of old Eggertsville school paves way for redevelopment project

Via the Buffalo News By Jay Rey A large redevelopment project in Amherst took a step forward last week with the rezoning of an old Eggertsville school. The Amherst Town Board rezoned the 3.4-acre property at 1350 Eggert Road, paving the way for the redevelopment of the former Eggert Road Elementary School into apartments and … Read more

Tonawanda charter school expanding to former Holy Angels site

Via Buffalo News By Denise Jewell Gee The hallowed halls of the former Holy Angels Academy building in North Buffalo will again be full of students, starting this fall. The Charter School for Applied Technologies will take over the vast, former all-girls Catholic high school. It will relocate its three middle-school grades from its Kenmore … Read more

Former Oliver’s partners and Ellicott Development plan Elmwood Ave. restaurant, apartments

Via Buffalo News By Andrew Z. Galarneau Veteran Buffalo restaurateurs are teaming with Ellicott Development to pursue a restaurant and residential building at 905 Elmwood Ave., presently a gas station. Henry Gorino, who sold Oliver’s last year, is working on the project with restaurant partner Chuck Mauro and Ellicott Development’s Bill Paladino, according to Mauro. … Read more

New Art Gallery opens in the Belesario

Via Buffalo Rising by queenseyes You might recall that I posted a fun and different type of article that followed the story of The Swan and The Horse, two artists who have exhibited internationally and have come together in Buffalo to produce a series of works to be shown this evening at a new gallery … Read more

ECIDA OKs two apartment projects worth $14M

Via Buffalo Business First By Jim Fink A pair of Buffalo projects, each anchored by a residential component, received tax breaks to advance from the planning stage to construction. The Erie County Industrial Development Agency directors, Wednesday morning, approved the incentive packages — one for the conversion of the late 1800s-era, former Jansen Brother Harness … Read more

Nineteen Apartments Planned for Midtown Site

Via Buffalo Rising by WCPerspective Main Street in Midtown will gain 19 new apartments under plans prepared by Ellicott Development. The development company is proposing to convert the top floor of a three-story building it owns at 1285 Main Street to residential. Ellicott purchased the former home of Hein Publishing at 1261-1285 Main Street last … Read more

Ellicott plots renovation of former Hein Publishing site

Via Buffalo Business First By Jim Fink The final phase of a mixed-use development for a Main Street building located on the northern edge of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus has emerged. Ellicott Development Co. is moving forward with plans to bring a residential component to the former Hein Publishing Co., 1285 Main St. Ellicott … Read more

Agreement to develop waterfront land extended

Via The Buffalo News Feb. 28, 2014 The Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency has voted to extend an agreement with Ellicott Development that grants the company exclusive rights to develop land near the Erie Basin Marina. If the agency did not take action, the agreement would have expired Saturday. The city is working on clearing title … Read more

Offices, apartments planned for former Cantalician Center building in Amherst

Via The Buffalo News By Jay Rey Ellicott Development Co. plans to redevelop the former Cantalician Center for Learning on Eggert Road in Amherst into apartments and office space. The development company, owned by Carl and William Paladino, plans “substantial interior and exterior” renovations on the three-story building at 1350 Eggert Road, near Crosby Boulevard, … Read more

Decrepit Graystone Hotel reborn as luxury apartment complex

Article via The Buffalo News By Jonathan D. Epstein | News Business Reporter After years of abandonment and decay so severe that trees grew through the roof of the six-story building, the former Graystone Hotel in downtown Buffalo has been given new life as a 42-unit apartment complex, following a two-year reconstruction and redevelopment effort … Read more

The big guns: Who’s who among Buffalo developers

Via The Buffalo News By Jonathan D. Epstein It’s a great time to be a developer in Western New York. After a long period of relative stagnation, the region’s commercial real estate market has surged in the past couple of years, spurred by billions of dollars of investment in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Canalside, … Read more

Construction Watch: 199 Scott Street Gets Windowed

Via Buffalo Rising Jan 16, 2014 Posted by WCPerspective The Fairmont Creamery at 199 Scott Street is looking a whole lot better now that the eight-story building has windows. Ellicott Development is putting office space on the building’s sixth, seventh and eighth floors, thirty apartments on floors three through five, a banquet facility and meeting … Read more

Ellicott CEO Bill Paladino featured in Buffalo Business First

Via Buffalo Business First by James Fink Bill Paladino’s phone rings a lot. As CEO of Ellicott Development Co., he’s constantly fielding calls from commercial real estate agents and fellow developers, many offering him choice properties. The calls often lead to deals. This year was a good example. In Erie County alone, the company acquired … Read more

Conversion proposed for empty downtown warehouse

By Jim Fink Via Buffalo Business First Vacant for more than a decade, a development plan has emerged for an Elm Street warehouse. Ellicott Development Co. is proposing to turn the former Jansen Bros. equine supply store into a mixed-use building anchored by first floor commercial office space and five upper-level apartments. Ellicott will be … Read more

Apartments and Office Space for 173 Elm Street

Via Buffalo Rising – See Article Dec 13, 2013 Posted by WCPerspective Ellicott Development remains on a tear. Representatives for the busy development company will be seeking City Planning Board approval on Tuesday to convert 173 Elm Street into first floor commercial office space and five upper floor apartments. Ellicott Development purchased the vacant four-story … Read more

Development Watch: Ellicott Development Happenings

Via Buffalo Rising – See Full Article Dec 6, 2013 Posted by WCPerspective So much for the winter doldrums. Ellicott Development is working on three properties in the city. The company is working on the long-vacant Fairmont Creamery at 199 Scott Street, it is adding more apartments at 10 Symphony Circle, and is gutting a … Read more

Ellicott Square Fitness Center Holiday Specials

Pick one of two Holiday Specials! Holiday Special #1: Buy 1 month, get 1 one free! (1 offer per member) Holiday Special #2: Take $10 off 3 months, $20 off 6 months or $30 off a year **Specials not to be combined with any offer. Offer available 12/1/13 to 12/31/13. Tenant Price: 1 month $25, … Read more

New Hotel Opens in Williamsville (Ch. 4)

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) – Out-of-town guests looking for a place to stay now have a new option in Williamsville. Ellicott Hospitality celebrated the grand opening of its Wyndham Garden Hotel on Main Street Thursday night. Inside you’ll find 120 hotel rooms, 33 apartments, a restaurant and a fitness center.

Paladinos are on a real estate buying spree

Via the Buffalo News By Jonathan D. Epstein Company purchases properties in Kenmore, downtown Carl and William Paladino’s Ellicott Development Co. continued its recent buying spree this past week with a pair of large real estate purchases, but the developer is also now starting to formulate plans for all the properties it has accumulated. In … Read more

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