April 29, 2013 - 11:20 AM
By Jill Terreri
Good morning,
Preservation Buffalo Niagara will hold a news conference at noon today on the steps of City Hall in an effort to pressure the Common Council to designate the Trico complex a local landmark, which would give the city's Preservation Board more say in any proposal to demolish it.
The Council is set to vote tomorrow on Trico's landmark status. Ellicott Council Member Darius Pridgen's district includes the building, and other lawmakers will likely take their cues from Pridgen. Pridgen did not say last week how he will vote, but noted that many from the neighborhood who spoke during Tuesday's Legislation Committee were not in favor of saving the building.
UPDATE: During a brief interview this afternoon, Pridgen said there will be a vote on the landmark designation tomorrow, but he would not say how he would vote.
In a separate interview today, Matthew K. Enstice, president and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, which owns development rights to Trico, said the Medical Campus is not in favor of landmarking the building, but is willing to work with developers and preservationists on re-using the former factory.
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April 16, 2013 - 10:50 AM
By Jill Terreri
Good morning,
Beginning today, just outside of City Hall, work is set to start on a $600,000 makeover of Niagara Square, which should come as welcome news to anyone who has traveled around the square on foot or in a wheelchair. Improvements include accessible ramps, new curbs and sidewalks, and highly visible pedestrian crossings, which can be expected to be a big upgrade from the haphazard signage that is there now.
The square will also be repaved, as well as a block on each intersecting street. Work is expected to be completed by Memorial Day, though the start and end dates are weather dependent.
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February 13, 2012 - 12:57 PM
Work on a former downtown hotel and a former school highlight Tuesday's city Planning Board agenda.
On Wednesday, the Zoning Board of Appeals' agenda also includes the former Greystone Hotel and Elmwood Village Charter School projects, among others.
Check out the rest of this week's public meetings in city government.
--Aaron Besecker
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January 22, 2012 - 7:00 AM
Plans to put an addition on a carriage house behind a Delaware Avenue mansion are among the proposals going before the City of Buffalo Preservation Board on Thursday.
The address of the project, being undertaken by Courier Capital Corp., is 1114 Delaware Ave., at Highland Avenue. Courier Capital bought the property in October from the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York for $650,000.
The company wants to split the mansion property from the carriage house property, making the carriage house its own residential property, a representative said last week.
Bradley Hamm, an aide to Delaware Council Member Michael J. LoCurto, told the city Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday that the property sits in the Linwood Preservation District. Hamm also said the Council office received two emails in opposition to it.
Here's the Preservation Board's full agenda.
The board meets at 3 p.m. in Room 901 in City Hall.
--Aaron Besecker
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