Wood & Brooks Lofts

Buffalo Construction Consultants is serving as the construction manager on the Wood & Brooks Lofts mixed-use renovation project. The Wood & Brooks Building has a long history in Buffalo. In 1901, Wood & Brooks founder, Charles Raymond Wood, opened a piano key factory in Tonawanda and in 1911, moved to the current Kenmore Avenue site. The factory, which once produced 125,000 piano keys yearly, closed altogether in 1970. The Wood & Brooks Company Factory Complex consists of four distinct buildings related to the functions of the manufacturing facility and the factory’s evolution: 1) The Main Factory (built in multiple campaigns from 1902 to 1916); 2) The Ivory Vault (1902); 3) The Lumber Storage Building (1902); and 4) The Garage (1911).

The first phase of the mixed-use project will focus on the main, six-story building, and the second phase will include mixed-use development, focusing on the adjoining four-story building that was part of the original factory. Phase one is anchored by 55 one- and two-bedroom market-rate apartments.

BCC is working closely with the owner, Kideney Architects, the Town of Tonawanda and local subcontractors to complete the work as part of a fast-track schedule. The project is in the New York State Brownfield Clean-Up Program and is a historic tax credit project. BCC, the owner, and the design team have developed an implementation plan to allow early occupancy of the first-floor commercial tenant, while minimizing disruptions to the campus operations and adjacent active buildings.