I heart 703 Fillmore.  It is on Fillmore just south of Broadway.  Long before being the First Holy Temple Full Gospel Baptist Church, it was the Masiel Furniture store built in 1925.

In the pictures above, you can see some of the detail…look at the old awning framework and some of the awning still left.

I am glad the building is in use.

It is another little rough around the edges gem of a building in B-F.

Have a great week everyone!!!

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I love finding out about neighborhood oddities hidden in plain sight.

The story I am about to send you to fits that description well.

You can read about the streets and who they were named after by clicking here—>

Great story!

(click on image to see YNN video on clean-up)

Broadway Fillmore Community Meeting Reminder

Please join us for community work day on Broadway Fillmore Housing

Date: January 29, 2011
Location: Key Bank, Broadway Market
Time: 12 to 1:00

Light Refreshments

Agenda:
Review of Clinton-Brown Historic Broadway-Fillmore Survey
2008 Community Property Inventory Code Book
Fillmore Avenue housing inventory

All welcome to attend

Sponsors:
B.E.S.T. Community Association
Friends of Broadway Market
Lombard Clark Block Club Association

(By Deidre Williams – Buffalo New) Less than two miles from downtown Buffalo are the elements of what could be a really vibrant community.

Bounded by Broadway, Fillmore Avenue and Memorial Drive, the 121-year-old Broadway Market is there.

So are HSBC and M&T Bank branches, and a post office.

The long-standing Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center on Broadway serves some of the poorest neighborhoods on the East Side, and the Central Terminal is among Buffalo’s most architecturally significant structures.

Now a local group intends to tie them all together to reinvent that section of the city with the recent purchase of the former Bank of America branch at 848 Broadway.

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Please join us for a community dialogue

Location: Adam Mickiewicz Library & Dramatic Circle, Inc.
612 Fillmore Ave (corner of Paderewski & Fillmore)

Date: Saturday November 20th
Time: 12:30 pm

Sponsor: Lombard Clark Block Association and Friends of Broadway Market
Refreshments served

Dialogue Issues:

Vacant Lots-Gardens? Urban Farms? Parking Lots? Pocket Parks? Homestead?
Abandoned Houses-Demo?Historic Properties?Rehab? New Builts?
Absentee Landlords
Sidewalks-Walkability? Landscape? Trees?
Shopping-Corner Stores? Neighborhood Services? Unmet needs?
Crime and Safety-Graffiti, Drugs, Loitering

Better Relations between Neighborhood and Community Institutions

Too many plans, not enough action
Buffalo Green Code
Neighborhood Vision

Block Club Expansion/or Coalition

About a month before Mike Miller passed away last year, we started working on an idea to get more people active and involved in the neighborhood….we came up with the concept of Team Alive.  The idea was was prompted by our growing frustration over not being able to do everything we would like to do to help.

The idea is to put together a volunteer group of people interested in working on a variety of projects in B-F.  At the core of the concept is what we started to do when we came up with Broadway Fillmore Alive.

“Our mission is to work together with community groups, businesses, residents, churches and other organizations to help promote, preserve and revitalize the Broadway-Fillmore area.”

Through our work here and with the various organizations we are affiliated with, our idea has always been to have people look at the neighborhood as a sum of all its parts. I am very proud of this little window we give the world of B-F.

But…

There is more work to be done…there is a lot of the neighborhood that doesn’t get the attention or focus it needs.

Since Mike’s death, it has become harder to focus on broader issues or other initiatives.

If you are interested in finding out more, you can fill out the Team Alive form by clicking here or call 716.218.0BFA.

An informational meeting will be held in October to get the ball rolling.

The level at which you want to help is up to you…whether you want to write on BFA, help inventory buildings in the commercial district or anything in between…there is something you can do.

Alive!!!