The Buffalo Chronicle
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Langworthy holds a 37-to-1 cash edge in NY-23 as Gies outraises him again in the final stretch
Rep. Nick Langworthy entered the last weeks of the NY-23 race with nearly $2 million in the bank to Aaron Gies’ $54,000. But FEC filings show the Democrat has outraised the incumbent…
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Rubio invites Cubans to a ‘discrete partnership’ with the CIA as Trump says Rubio will ‘finish up the deal’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Cubans seeking change to contact the CIA, hours after President Trump told a Florida rally he would send Rubio to Havana to “finish up the deal.”…
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Catholic Health and Benderson seek a tax break to turn a vacant Evans Street Rite Aid into a $28.5 million medical hub
A Benderson-linked developer is asking the Amherst IDA for a property tax break to turn the vacant Rite Aid at 462 and 480 Evans St. into a $28.5 million Catholic Health Northtowns…
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A new Quaker Road lot coverage request heads to East Aurora’s zoning board as a senior housing plan moves ahead
East Aurora’s Zoning Board of Appeals will hear a request on Nov. 12 for 52.6% lot coverage at 260 Quaker Road, as Young Development’s planned 118-unit senior apartment building at 270 Quaker…
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Woodhill Capital’s president admits to mail fraud as records detail a $54 million collapse
Richard Teplitsky pleaded guilty Friday to mail fraud in the collapse of Woodhill Capital, which federal prosecutors say took $54.4 million from about 200 investors. Court records show how the equipment-lease notes…
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Fox Valley Country Club’s owners say they have put $4 million into reviving the Lancaster course
The Bansal family says it has invested $4 million in Fox Valley Country Club on Genesee Street, five years after the 130-acre Lancaster club sold for $750,000, and membership has doubled to…
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Salvation Army opens Hope on Main shelter, first piece of a $100 million Main Street redevelopment
The Salvation Army opened an 80-bed family shelter at 954 Main St., the $20.5 million first phase of Hope on Main. Next on the site: 143 affordable apartments and 17 townhouses.
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A vacant Swan Street corner is slated for housing. Tests found lead at 50 times the residential cleanup limit
A developer who grew up nearby wants to build apartments and affordable townhomes at Swan and Chicago streets. His consultant’s tests found lead, mercury and buried tanks, and the state is taking…
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With Templeton Landing back in city hands, Buffalo weighs a plan for the whole Erie Basin Marina
The Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency controls the Templeton Landing parcel for the first time since 1982. Mayor Sean Ryan says the city will plan the marina area as a whole before seeking…
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North Tonawanda voters to decide on an $18 million community center at the Keller Building
A Nov. 3 ballot proposition would let North Tonawanda borrow up to $18 million to consolidate its rented senior and youth centers into the city-owned Norman Keller Building, at a maximum of…
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NFTA board asked to add nearly $1 million for Metro Rail extension traffic update ahead of 30% design
The NFTA board was asked to add $958,244 to WSP’s contract to update the Amherst-Tonawanda Metro Rail extension’s traffic model, the next engineering step after the FTA’s environmental approval in February.
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Western New York won a third of MOVE-IN NY’s starter-home money. Here is where its 96 homes stand
Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Lackawanna and the Town of Tonawanda won about $29 million to place 96 factory-built starter homes. Records show lots identified and approvals under way in some communities, and few…
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Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls loan goes back to a special servicer after reaching maturity
The roughly $74 million mortgage on the Town of Niagara outlet mall matured this month and moved to Midland Loan Services, months after the Niagara County IDA approved a 10-year tax deal…
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Upstate Niagara’s West Seneca dairy expansion grows to $325 million, with $35 million for on-site power
The cooperative’s third revision adds linear generators because of a lack of available electricity and seeks about $12.7 million in sales-tax breaks. The ECIDA holds a public hearing Tuesday at 3 p.m.
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New York’s $225 million water-for-housing fund is open only to Pro-Housing towns. Many WNY suburbs aren’t certified yet
The state’s new Clean Water for Housing grants pay up to 75% of water and sewer work tied to new homes, first come, first served. HCR’s dashboard lists 12 certified municipalities in…
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Appeals court says 1929 census descendants belong in organizing the California Valley Miwok Tribe
A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel upheld Interior’s decision to let descendants of Miwok people on a 1929 Calaveras County census take part in organizing the California Valley Miwok Tribe, a ruling that…
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Trump order aims to trim mortgage insurance and refinance costs as Buffalo-area prices climb
President Trump signed an executive order directing federal housing agencies to cancel mortgage insurance sooner, make cheaper refinancing permanent and speed up factory-built housing. Here’s what it could mean in Buffalo, where…
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Treasury proposes rules for the new federal limit on big investors buying single-family homes
Treasury’s proposed rule spells out how large institutional investors can still build, renovate and sell houses under the ROAD to Housing Act’s ban, and what they would pay for violations. New York…
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Ottawa and Ontario pay Windsor, Essex County and Sudbury to slash development charges as Niagara waits
Canada and Ontario committed up to $235.5 million to Windsor, Tecumseh, Essex County and Greater Sudbury in exchange for cutting or eliminating development charges on new homes. Niagara Region’s applications are still…
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Tonawanda’s new supervisor breaks the tax cap and says it will save residents later. Here’s the math
Supervisor John Flynn’s first budget raises the Town of Tonawanda levy 3.9%, well past the state cap, citing health insurance, pensions, police raises and a 57% jump in rock salt. Clarence faced…
