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Buffalo picks a former police precinct in the Old First Ward for its new animal shelter
Mayor Sean Ryan says the city will turn the former police station at 294 Louisiana St. into a modern animal shelter, replacing the cramped Oak Street building.
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Buffalo adds snowblower tractors, contractor money and plow tracking to clear side streets
Buffalo’s DPW is adding seven snowblower tractors, a $2 million contractor budget and plow technology aimed at side streets.
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The Swannie House, closed two years, is headed for a $300,000 rehab under new owners
Kevin and Brian Gould and Ellicott Development CEO William Paladino are under contract to buy the 1886 Old First Ward tavern at 170 Ohio St. They plan to reopen it in early…
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Ryan’s arts task force wants a city culture department and an end to grants with “no transparent, equitable process”
Mayor Sean Ryan’s CREATE Task Force recommends a $150,000 Department of Arts and Culture, a competitive process for city arts grants and a cultural plan anchored to the 2032 bicentennial. The Common…
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Legacy Development asks the Common Council to overrule preservationists on a 150-year-old North Oak Street building
Main Gateway L.P. says rehabilitating 328 North Oak St. would lose about $803,000 and is appealing a 4-3 Preservation Board vote that fell short of the six needed for a hardship exception.…
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Nietzsche’s, the Allen Street stage that launched Ani DiFranco, is up for city landmark status
The Common Council receives a proposal Tuesday to designate 248 Allen St., home to Nietzsche’s since 1982 and to bars and live music since Prohibition, as a local landmark.
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Who owns the land around Millrace Park? City records point to a Larkin-linked company
Property records show a company sharing Larkin Development’s address owned the Millrace Park site and at least 22 nearby parcels. The state is paying $6 million of the park’s $8 million cost,…
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Elmwood Bidwell apartments start leasing, 10 months past the developer’s target
Studios start at $1,700 at Douglas Development’s long-delayed Elmwood and Bidwell project. City permit records trace a five-year path, mismatched unit counts and a storefront that still has no announced tenant.
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A Rochester developer bets factory-built homes can fill Buffalo’s vacant lots for about $175,000
Cook Properties is buying 18 city lots for unsubsidized modular homes, starting on Northampton Street. Its plan comes as Albany funds factory-built starter homes elsewhere and the White House orders a review…
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Buffalo’s long ballot: 11 charter changes, from a human rights commission to who controls the budget
With no city offices on the ballot, Buffalo voters will decide 11 proposed charter changes on Nov. 3. Here’s what each would do, from police advice and human rights to budget power…
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A year into the top job, UB alum Allana Krolikowski steers Jericho Road through a leaner era for health centers
Dr. Allana Krolikowski, a two-time UB graduate who started at Jericho Road as an unpaid intern, marks a year as CEO as Medicaid changes reshape how safety-net clinics are paid.
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Carl Montante, a UB Law alum who practiced law ‘for about a week,’ enters the WNY Business Hall of Fame
Uniland founder Carl J. Montante, a 1967 UB Law graduate, was inducted into the Western New York Business Hall of Fame on Oct. 14. His company is still building, and protesters are…
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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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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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Buffalo’s snow plan boosts contractor money nearly fivefold as the city waits on new plows
Buffalo’s new winter plan raises snow-hauling contractor money from $580,000 to $2.7 million, but the 10 plows the city ordered won’t arrive until midwinter, leaving it with 14 or 15 working plows…
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GLYS WNY and the Pride Center are buying Oxford Pennant’s Allentown building
After years in basements, GLYS WNY and the Pride Center of Western New York are buying 810 Main St., Oxford Pennant’s “Keep Buffalo A Secret” building, as a shared, visible home for…
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Buffalo’s school board blinked on closures. The district’s own filings show why the math won’t wait
The Buffalo School Board put off its closure vote again. The district’s filings with the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority show a $66 million deficit, a shrinking reserve and a four-year plan the…
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Buffalo’s animal shelter is out of room as New York’s new shelter rules near
The city shelter on Oak Street has more dogs than space, and Mayor Sean Ryan says a new no-kill shelter is years away. A $412,000 state-backed fix and a mid-December state deadline…
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Change Buffalo PAC urges governor to help put control board back in charge of city finances
Change Buffalo PAC wants the governor to press the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority to reimpose a control period. Under state law, only the board can make that call, and Mayor Sean Ryan,…
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Buffalo’s school board votes tonight on a closure plan that changed again overnight
The Buffalo Board of Education is set to vote Wednesday on closing six schools, down from eight, after the district posted yet another version of its plan Monday night. One board member…
