From the Buffalo News…
The Crescent Village Revitalization Project in the city’s Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood got started Monday as officials and community leaders announced plans to construct 10 new subsidized homes.
The Sweet Avenue homes will be the first phase of a $5 million project that includes market-rate new builds, homes that will be rehabilitated and sold, and owner-occupied homes that will be upgraded. The project encompasses a 16- block area surrounded by Broadway, Walden Avenue, Loepere Street and Rother Avenue.
The project is exciting in that it not only focuses on new builds but is going to mixed development…to create a stronger neighborhood, the revivification of existing properties/structures will make the area dynamic and city-like if that makes sense.
I also like Dave Franczyk’s quote at the end of the article.
“There was a time when Sweet Avenue was regarded as a lost cause,” Franczyk said. “This shows you can never write off a community.”
Alive…
