A lightning strike may have forced the demolition of a former mansion on North Street but the owner hasn’t given up on the Allentown parcel. Ben Obletz, president of First Amherst Development Group, wants to construct a four-story, 40-unit apartment complex to be called Nineteen North on the now-vacant property. He continues to fine-tune the project..

Exciting Tales of the Albany Planning Board is a program recorded before a live studio audience in Albany City Hall once a month in which the fates of multi-million dollar projects are (partially) decided. Renderings! Massing! Stormwater! Public comments! And don’t forget… TRAFFIC AND PARKING! (Ha, just kidding, no one ever forgets traffic and parking.) Here’s what..

The $90 million conversion of the long-vacant Central Park Plaza is underway. Groundbreaking has taken place on the first phase of the residential-based complex dubbed Highland Park Village. The first phase involves a $24 million investment by Highland Park Village LLC that will see 84 apartments and townhouses developed over the next year. “This has..

LPCiminelli has broken grown on the Highland Park project, located on the site of the former Central Park Plaza in the Fillmore Leroy neighborhood. This is Phase 1 of the three phases for the $90 million project, which will ultimately result in 600 units in a mix of rental apartments, for-sale homes and townhomes. Louis P. Ciminelli..

Construction on a new residential neighborhood at the former Central Park Plaza site in the Fillmore Leroy neighborhood will kick off today. Developers LPCiminelli and Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. plan to build a $90 million development with about 600 housing units, including apartments, townhomes and single-family houses, on a 27-acre site just east of Main..

The president of Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation says visitors to Buffalo’s Canalside will soon see noticeable progress in the construction of a highly-anticipated venue. The ECHDC held a brief meeting Monday morning, during which president Thomas Dee provided a brief update on progress of two projects, the Explore & More Children’s Museum and the..

Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. wants city permission to demolish a nearly century-old office and warehouse building at the Manhattan Avenue site where the company got its start more than three decades ago. The Amherst-based developer – which is moving its corporate headquarters to Buffalo – has applied to the Preservation Board for permission to take down a deteriorating one-story brick..

Historic restorations and improvements for the Buffalo Museum of Science’s new rooftop observatory are well underway. Work is being performed by General Contractor Picone Construction, which is updating the rotating dome’s functionality, while creating ADA-compliant access to the observatory and aerospace studio. When all is said and done, Buffalo will once again be home to..

An elaborate Medina sandstone church on Delaware Avenue that has housed the same Baptist congregation since it was built in 1894 is for sale for $895,000. But not because the congregation is shrinking. Unlike other churches that have sold property, the congregation of Delaware Avenue Baptist Church is growing, with more than 250 people. That’s still..