580 Niagara: What's Next?
/Right before Valentine’s day, we asked the community to make calls to save this little cottage - it was going to be demolished by the City of Buffalo because the front house was a huge health and safety issue. The front building was ultimately demolished but the City of Buffalo gave us some time to find a solution for the rear little cottage that dates back to 1870 or so. Phew!
We are currently trying to track down the owner. This is the vacancy vortex in a nutshell.
The good news is:
It is boarded up - thanks to Jeff and Yoav from our team who got some boards on the windows.
We have support from Preservation Buffalo Niagara - they helped immensely with the discussions at City Hall for us. (Thanks PBN!)
We also have loads of interest from people who want to buy it as well, which is a great thing.
Thank you to everyone who made calls to City Hall! We appreciate it so much. We are keeping an eye out as best as we can. (Our office is right across the street!) It will be saved - we just have to get it unstuck.
Stay tuned.
