Via The Buffalo News
By Mark Sommer
Ohio Street, once pitted and cracked, now has fresh asphalt – along with a bike trail and new streetlights being hooked up – after an $11 million project to turn it into an Outer Harbor gateway.
Now attention turns to transforming the blighted area surrounding the old industrial street into a vibrant neighborhood.
That is what a couple of established developers look to do, with projects to build luxury apartments, an office building and boat docks along the Buffalo River.
For years, dump trucks, cement mixers and tractor-trailers made up most of the traffic passing through the once-industrial area, so it could be tough to ride a bicycle on the road. But the planned rowing club, park and housing developments figure to draw more people. And a 12-foot-wide bike trail along the road will be attractive to cyclists.
The idea, of course, is that the improvements will resuscitate the area.
Carl Paladino said he expects to begin building three or four apartment buildings, each three or four stories high, next year.
