Sixteen artists are ready to become tenants in the new Roderick Artspace Lofts in Downtown El Paso, with full occupancy expected in February. “We support the arts community and it’s such an amazing opportunity to give to our community of this magnitude….it’s just real exciting to see another vibrant project added to Downtown and El..

El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 Grand Opening On September 26, nearly 2,000 residents of El Barrio/East Harlem joined the residents of PS109, and staff and volunteers of El Taller Latino Americano, Hi-ARTS and the Shakespeare Forum for an art-filled celebration sponsored, in part, by Capital One Bank. The entire building opened to the community with art,..

Two Niagara Street buildings and a public school on Best have been recommended for inclusion on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The three recommended are: • Buffalo Milk Company building, 885 Niagara St. Constructed between 1903 and 1905, the Buffalo Milk Company, later Queen City Dairy, used the building for the pasteurization..

Artists say that New York City is the place to be, for inspiration, community, and jobs. The challenge is finding an affordable place to live as well as space to create art. For decades, a handful of subsidized housing complexes provided a foothold for artists and now, the de Blasio Administration plans to build even..

A ten-unit apartment building is underway on a Genesee Street infill site not far from downtown. Mayor Byron Brown, Council President Darius Pridgen, New York State Assembly Member Crystal Peoples-Stokes and New York State Senator Timothy Kennedy joined Pastor Dwayne Jones of Mt. Aaron Missionary Baptist Church, clergy and community partners for a breaking ceremony..

The new nature center will have a solar-paneled roof and a dramatic atrium, so it will be both stylish and sustainable when it opens in spring 2016. An outdoor classroom, meadow, forest and butterfly garden will frame the exterior of the center, and it will be open year round. What’s more, it will have a..

Over 200 construction workers each day are plying their trades at 250 Delaware, Uniland Development Company’s mixed-use building downtown. The building’s glass façade is nearly in place, a five-story parking ramp is being constructed piece by piece along South Elmwood Avenue, mechanical and finish work is happening throughout the interior, and the terra cotta on..