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About ten people forwarded me a link to a story in today’s Buffalo News about work beginning on Transfiguration Church to shore up the structure. Anyone who has followed the saga of this building can’t help but to be a bit skeptical of the owners, but after 14 years of basically sitting dormant, could this be a turning point…we can only hope.
From the article…
Attorney William Trezevant of the nonprofit Francis Associates, which purchased the church at 929 Sycamore St. from the Diocese of Buffalo for $7,000, praised Senior Deputy Corporation Counsel David Rodriguez for helping him navigate the permit process to get the long-stalled project moving.
“And it only took 14 years,” Trezevant quipped, thanking Rodriguez for getting the city to lift a long-standing Housing Court arrest warrant for his mother, Paula Nowak. Trezevant and Nowak, both of Washington, D.C., operate the nonprofit, which they envision as a community center.
Trezevant said he expects the roof repair and other stabilization work to be completed in a few weeks. Renovations then will begin on the Eastern European, Gothic-style building.
I will now make it a point to drive by Transfiguration on a regular basis and see how things progress over the next few weeks.
