{"id":979,"date":"2006-03-15T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T16:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/03\/15\/a-progressive-plan-for-housing-redevelopment-in-the-broadway-fillmore-area-part-2\/"},"modified":"2006-03-15T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T16:53:28","slug":"a-progressive-plan-for-housing-redevelopment-in-the-broadway-fillmore-area-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2006\/03\/a-progressive-plan-for-housing-redevelopment-in-the-broadway-fillmore-area-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A progressive plan for housing (re)development in the Broadway-Fillmore Area (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow up to a post BF Alive made last week\u2026 The Buffalo News has an article today with more details. This is really a great opportunity to help revitalize the B-F Area\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>View <a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/docs\/murelease.pdf\" target=_blank>Press Release<\/a>\u00a0and complete\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/docs\/plan.pdf\" target=_blank>Plan<\/a> (pdf) for a total rundown of what this development is all about.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayfillmorealive.org\/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1141842823&archive=&start_from=&ucat=7&category=7\" target=_blank>Link to our original post<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><font size=1>(Thanks to Leslie Vishwanath from the Matt Urban Center for the documentation\u2026)<\/font> <strong>________________ <\/p>\n<p><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buffalonews.com\/editorial\/20060315\/1069205.asp\" target=_blank><strong>A mosque as hub of a wheel<\/strong><\/a><br \/>(Buffalo News \u2013 DEIDRE WILLIAMS- News Staff Reporter)<\/p>\n<p>A group of 45 people, mostly Muslim, is about to embark on one of the biggest revitalization projects the East Side has ever seen. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=4 src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/buffalonews.com\/graphics\/2006\/03\/15\/0315sweet.jpg?w=640\" align=right vspace=4 border=1>For the last six months, these investors \u2013 many of them congregants of the Masjid Zakariya Mosque on Sobieski Street \u2013 individually approached the city about buying 59 parcels of vacant, city-owned lots and abandoned homes. The parcels make up a 16-block area around the mosque. <\/p>\n<p>They were taking to heart a message the mosque\u2019s imam has been delivering for the last five years: If people want to be a part of the mosque\u2019s school and community, they should be a part of the neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encouraged [mosque congregants] to buy houses here and to move into the area,\u201d said Imam M. Ibrahim Memon. \u201cWhen we first moved here in 1993, [homeowners] were offering their houses and $1,000 or $2,000 cash to take it off their hands. Currently, the market value is $20,000 to $30,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow up to a post BF Alive made last week\u2026 The Buffalo News has an article today with more details. 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