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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n(Click on images for full view \u2013 Courtesy of ArtFarms<\/a>)<\/p>\nFuture Blooms is an initiative by the Junior League of Buffalo<\/a>. Their first project was in Buffalo\u2019s First Ward<\/a>.<\/p>\n From the Junior League\u2019s website:<\/p>\n The Buffalo Metro area has one of the highest inventories of vacant buildings in the nation. Complex problems demand creative solutions. The women of the Junior League of Buffalo are teaming together with local residents and community groups to revitalize area neighborhoods. Future Blooms is a neighborhood transformation program that uses art to restore identity to abandoned buildings while improving the appearance of community. It is modeled after a similar program first developed by Keep Cincinnati Beautiful. Volunteers paint doors, windows and flower boxes on the barricaded parts of abandoned buildings to make them appear new and in use. The painted facades add beauty and hope to an otherwise depressed streetscape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Last Saturday, the effort was brought to the former School 57 on Sears Street.\u00a0The Junior League of Buffalo worked with volunteers from ArtFarms, Matt Urban Hope Center, Wesleyan Church of Hamburg to bring some life to this vacant building in the heart of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n There should be more of these types of projects in Broadway-Fillmore to help capture the imagination and bring some life to the area\u2019s vacant and abandoned properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Click on images for full view \u2013 Courtesy of ArtFarms) Future Blooms is an initiative by the Junior League of Buffalo. Their first project was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,623],"tags":[1067],"class_list":["post-15255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-b-f-preservation","tag-future-blooms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10438135_700051360079154_8384058176859697763_n.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-3Y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15264,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15255\/revisions\/15264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}