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The Rails at 2939 Main Street is the type of development many hoped would be spurred by the opening of the light rail forty years ago (40!!!). It’s also a preview to what development around the LaSalle light rail station could be if the City ever picks a developer. Project proposals were due in June 2022 (2 years!!!).

Construction is winding down on the Wood & Brooks Lofts, an adaptive reuse project located at 2101 Kenmore Avenue in Tonawanda, on the border of Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood. Frontier Insulation Contractors Inc. and Thermal Foams Inc. have owned the complex for more than 50 years and the Wopperer family is now renovating the largest building on the site.

As the Fredonia Central School District works through the environmental review process pertaining to its planned $51 million capital project proposal this winter, the District has been evaluating potential fits for the Construction Manager to oversee whatever work could be approved.

Chase Commons, formerly the Lockport Presbyterian Home, opened its doors to city and town officials to show off the transformation from an assisted living facility to a market-rate apartment campus on High Street Thursday morning.

Up to 74 low-income families and young children on Buffalo’s East Side will be eligible to get free day care and preschool education in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood starting in September, after the region’s newest Head Start program opened in the redeveloped former Eckhardt’s Department Store building alongside 28 new affordable apartments.

A push for housing through infill development, new policies