When developer Paul Kolkmeyer looks at the former Oracle Charter School in Buffalo, he sees a boutique hotel and apartments. Kolkmeyer, head of Priam Development, wants to convert the Goodyear House at 888 Delaware Ave. – home of the former high school – into a combination of hotel and apartments, with 29 guest rooms and..

A Delaware Avenue mansion has a hospitality and residential future.  Priam Development is proposing a 29-room boutique hotel and 20 residential units for the Charles W. Goodyear House at 888 Delaware Avenue.  The property was most recently used by Oracle Charter School. HHL Architects is working on plans for the conversion project  The hotel rooms will be..

Nineteen North apartments in Allentown is open with a few finishing touches left to be completed on the building.  It is one of a growing number of ground-up apartment projects being constructed outside of downtown. First Amherst Development is behind the four-level, 39 unit luxury apartment building one block west of Main Street. The building includes..

The shipbuilding industry is about to return to Buffalo’s Inner Harbor – albeit, in a very limited way. The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. got the green light from the Buffalo Planning Board Monday to erect a new wood frame longshed building at Canalside, on 0.2 acres along the Commercial Slip. The long, slender barn-like..

Two steps down and two more to go for the planned Canalside Long Shed project. Following the Jan. 14 mandated coastal consistency determination by the Buffalo Planning Board, the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals approved some variances needed for the $4 million project promoted by the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. Now, the project goes..

Another large building for Canalside appears closer to reality, after the city Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday approved a series of waivers to the Green Code, while ordering one significant change in the design, for a structure known as The Longshed. The Longshed would go on a key location at Canalside—on the edge of..

Canalside officials are trying to get approval for minor modifications on this project, which would be a replica canal boat — very appropriate for the waterfront. BUFFALO, N.Y. — We have an update on the construction of a new building at Canalside, which could possibly have a restaurant and restrooms. The project went before the..

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When the Zoning Board of Appeals meets today to review the request by the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. for a series of variances from the city’s Green Code, it should keep prominently in mind the effort being made to link Buffalo’s revitalized present with its storied past. The agency is constructing a “longshed” that..

Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. is moving ahead with plans to construct a new “longshed” facility as part of Canalside, as the state agency seeks the first city approval for the $4 million project. The agency, a subsidiary of Empire State Development Corp., wants to erect the long, slender barn-like structure on 0.2 acres just..