{"id":25859,"date":"2022-11-14T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=25859"},"modified":"2022-11-14T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:34:15","slug":"buffalos-broadway-fillmore-neighborhood-gets-a-big-boost-from-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2022\/11\/buffalos-broadway-fillmore-neighborhood-gets-a-big-boost-from-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo&#8217;s Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood gets a big boost from New York State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"o-jazzed-release__wysiwyg1 o-wysiwyg \">\n<div class=\"a-text__html o-jazzed-release__wysiwyg1\">\n<p>A press conference was held today at the Matt Urban Center where Governor Kathy Hochul announced 11 transformational projects in Buffalo&#8217;s Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood to enhance the quality of life for Buffalonians and create business, employment, and housing opportunities as part of the $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative award. These investments will leverage the neighborhood&#8217;s dense stock of largely historic commercial buildings for vibrant new green space, retail-oriented streets, improved bike and pedestrian connections and lively streetscapes. These improvements are part of the Governor&#8217;s ongoing efforts to revitalize the upstate economy and uplift Western New York communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are forging a new path forward for Buffalo \u2014 making significant investments that will help continue to rewrite the Buffalo comeback story,&#8221; <strong>Governor Hochul said.<\/strong> &#8220;Our investments in housing, economic development, and job creation in East Buffalo will help breathe new life into the community and make it a better place to live and work. My administration will continue our efforts to transform neighborhoods into vibrant community centers and build a better future for New Yorkers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Summary of the 11 grants:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>$2.5 million to the Broadway Market to open up the main entryway to accommodate amenities, create an outdoor farmers market, relocate tenant spaces on Broadway to be replaced by food-related vendors and improve circulation throughout the market. This brings the state&#8217;s spending on the market&#8217;s revitalization in 2022 to $39.5 million.<\/li>\n<li>$1.7 million for new street lighting, trees, flower planters and outdoor seating on streets around the Broadway Market.<\/li>\n<li>$1 million to help turn the underused grassy lawn at the Central Terminal into a year-round spot for recreational activities, organized sports and other events.<\/li>\n<li>$1 million to renovate the first two floors of 239 Lombard St. into a child care facility that can serve up to 90 children and employ at least 20 people, along with a facility to train child care workers.<\/li>\n<li>$664,000 to create an organic container farm by renovating an abandoned building at 205 Lombard and an adjacent parking lot into a 1-acre, solar-powered container farm with office space.<\/li>\n<li>$630,000 to revitalize Sears Paderewski Park, 358 Paderewski Dr., by adding a new surface, trees, playground equipment and a pavilion as a gathering space for small performances and a shaded play area.<\/li>\n<li>$550,000 to create 62 units of affordable housing ranging from single-family rentals to multifamily apartment units on city-owned properties on Playter Street, between Broadway and Paderewski.<\/li>\n<li>$500,000 to renovate the historic Schreiber Brewery, 662 Fillmore Ave., into a multiuse commercial space that includes brewing production.<\/li>\n<li>$427,000 to renovate 950 Broadway into a day care center with classrooms, commercial kitchen, storage and outdoor playground.<\/li>\n<li>$362,000 to expand production capacity at Al Cohen&#8217;s Famous Rye Bread Bakery, 1132 Broadway, one of Broadway Fillmore&#8217;s largest employers. The expansion will occur on the company&#8217;s adjacent 185 Sweet Ave. property.<\/li>\n<li>$290,000 to improve the after-school and performance space at Matt Urban Center, 1081 Broadway, enabling the center to meets its licensing requirement for an after-school program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can watch the full press conference below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U6t390V4Z4A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A press conference was held today at the Matt Urban Center where Governor Kathy Hochul announced 11 transformational projects in Buffalo&#8217;s Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood to enhance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25860,"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":"Buffalo's Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood gets a big boost from New York State","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":[91,1136,1592],"class_list":["post-25859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-b-f-preservation","tag-broadway-fillmore","tag-buffalo","tag-kathy-hochul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bf-hochul.jpg?fit=988%2C556&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-6J5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25861,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859\/revisions\/25861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}