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Article via The Buffalo News
by Jonathan Epstein

A proposed senior housing project planned for Buffalo’s Symphony Circle neighborhood will be geared toward upscale independent living for seniors, rather than the originally planned assisted-living facility.

The $30 million project, which was previously approved last year by the city, has been taken over by Ellicott Development Co., which replaced an out-of-own firm that had previously partnered with the owner of the former Nazareth Home.

The planned Symphony Circle Active Living facility will include a four-story masonry building with 119 senior apartments.

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Article via Buffalo Rising
by Queeneyes

There was a time that I probably wouldn’t make the trip to the Village of Kenmore, other than to get my vacuum cleaner fixed. But recently I’ve been finding more and more reasons to visit the village – from the restaurants and bakeries to the shopping. I love shopping at Miss Josie’s Vintage and Antiques. I also recently ate at Mike’s Subs (for the first time ever).

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Article via The Buffalo News
by Jonathan D. Epstein

Carl and William Paladino’s Ellicott Development Co. is proposing a trio of reuse projects in and around downtown Buffalo, planning a mixture of commercial and residential space in each as it works to bring the vacant buildings back to life.

The three historic renovation projects, each of which will come before the city Planning Board for consideration, would create a total of 18 new apartments and several floors of new office space on both the east and west edges of the city’s central business district. Ellicott is working with the State Historic Preservation Office on all three projects, which would qualify them for lucrative state and federal historic tax credits to finance the combined $18.8 million price tag.

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Article via Buffalo Business First
By James Fink

Construction on Ellicott Development Co.’s latest Buffalo project has reached a key milestone.

The four-story, 44,000-square-foot building, being built by Concept Construction Corp., has reached its halfway mark and is on pace to open later this year.

Designed by Kideney Architects, the $8 million, privately-financed project, located at 905 Elmwood Avenue, replaces a dilapidated gas station that operated at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and W. Delavan Street.

Work began last year.

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Via Buffalo Rising

The corner of Elmwood and W. Delavan Avenue is growing up where the former Elmwood-Delevan Food Mart was demolished. In its place, Ellicott Development is constructing a four-story building designed by Kideney Architects that will house a restaurant, retail space, and 21 apartments. It is one of several projects that have been recently completed, underway or proposed that is changing the character of Elmwood for better or worse as discussed in The Buffalo News here.

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Via Buffalo Rising
by Queenseyes

The healing method of cryotherapy is quickly becoming one of the hottest tickets to speedy recovery for injury prone athletes. Now there is news of a new cryotherapy facility opening in Downtown Buffalo in May.

BuffaloCryo will soon open at 199 Scott Street, inside the newly renovated Fairmont Creamery, along with a slew of other businesses. Cryotherapy is the next big thing in injury recovery, and is now being utilized by some of the top athletes in the world. As if overnight, the healing method has become a highly recognized and highly sought after process, that is said to be quicker and more effective than other bio-regenerative techniques.

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Article via Buffalo Business First
by Jim Fink

Buoyed by the success of a nearby project, Ellicott Development is moving ahead with plans for a mixed-use complex that will sit in the shadow of the University at Buffalo campus.

The Buffalo-based development company is working with Amherst officials on plans to build a four-story hotel along with a 12-unit apartment building on a series of vacant parcels on Rensch Road near Sweet Home Road. An early 1900s house on the property will be preserved and renovated, as well.

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Article via Buffalo Rising
By Tim Scanlon

Work is under way on Ellicott Development’s $4.5 million, 52,000 sq. ft. mixed-use development at 301 Ohio Street. Construction crews have been on-site working on the foundation of the five story building, which will be home to two restaurants and 10,000 square feet of commercial space, topped by 21 apartments on the upper three floors.

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Article via Buffalo Rising
by WCPerspective

Ellicott Development Company has started work to convert a four-story manufacturing building north of the Peace Bridge into residential and commercial space. 960 Busti Avenue is a circa-1930, 56,000 sq.ft. building that was home to General Electric until about 1968. Multiform Desiccants occupied the building until 1995 and has been vacant since.

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Article via Buffalo Rising
by WCPerspective

Clean-up work is underway at 1088 Niagara Street where Ellicott Development Company is planning at two-story, mixed-use building. The 11,000 sq.ft. building will contain a Tim Hortons with a drive-thru, additional retail space on the ground floor, and three, two and three-bedroom apartments ranging in size from 1,350 to 1,875 sq.ft. on the second floor.

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Article via Buffalo Business First
by James Fink

In a sign that construction is about to begin on a proposed Elmwood Village project that will bring a restaurant and new apartments, Ellicott Development has closed on parcels its to construct the building.

Ellicott Development paid $1.2 million for the vacant Elmwood Delavan Food Mart property at 905 Elmwood Ave. and two adjoining West Delavan Avenue properties, according to documents filed in the Erie County Clerk’s Office.

With the properties now under its control, Ellicott Development will start prepping the properties for construction of the four-story building planned for the corner of Elmwood and Delavan avenues. The project carries a $10 million development price tag.

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Article via Buffalo Business First
By James Fink

Ellicott Development has increased its already vast real estate holdings by acquiring a lower West Side building and is poised to purchase an Elmwood Avenue restaurant.

In separate deals, Ellicott Development — through its 8112 Group LLC affiliate — purchased Pooley Inc.’s headquarters at 207 W. Huron St. Ellicott paid $300,000 for the building.

William Paladino, Ellicott president and CEO, said he is considering a number of options at the site.

“We will repurpose the building for something,” Paladino said. “The bottom line is that this is a good buy for a building in a good location.”

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Article via Buffalo Rising
By wcperspective

The first distillery to open in Buffalo is now expanding, and will be reopening in the Cobblestone District in (hopefully) two weeks time. Partners Niko Georgiadis, Chad Vosseller, Jon Mirro and Thomas Jablonski came out with guns a blazin’, immediately cultivating a cult following throughout the region with their locally distilled vodka in 2012. Since that time, the operators have released a gin, but their original location prevented them from growing to any significant capacity.

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Article via NY Times
By Diane Cardwell July 20, 2015

BUFFALO — Along a bend in the Buffalo River here, an enormous steel and concrete structure is rising, soon to house one of the country’s largest solar panel factories. Just to the south, in the rotting guts of the old Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, where a dozen wind turbines already harness the energy blowing off Lake Erie, workers are preparing to install a big new solar array.

And in Lockport, to the north, Yahoo recently expanded a data and customer service center, attracted by the region’s cheap, clean power generated by Niagara Falls.

After decades of providing the punch line in jokes about snowstorms, also-ran sports teams and urban decline, the Queen City of the Lakes is suddenly experiencing something new: an economic turnaround, helped by the unlikely sector of renewable energy.

The change in Buffalo is so evident that parents who once told their children to seek their fortunes elsewhere are now telling them to come back.

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Article via Buffalo Business First
By Jim Fink

Plans to renovate a century-old Buffalo school into a mixed-use, residential-based project tops three new undertakings that Ellicott Development wants to add to its still-growing Buffalo development pipeline.

And, each of the projects is taking place in different parts of the city.

Company representatives will be meeting with the Buffalo Planning Board on July 14 to seek approval for:

• A joint venture with Sinatra & Co. to renovate the vacant former School 56, or Frederick Law Olmsted School, at 722 W. Delavan Avenue into a resident-based development anchored by 33 market-rate apartments and some limited office space that may be leased to not-for-profit entities.

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Article via Buffalo News
By Jonathan D. Epstein

Development along the Buffalo River is picking up more steam as Carl Paladino and investment partner Victor Liberatore teamed up Wednesday to bid $2.17 million at a public auction and buy waterfront property next to the RiverWorks entertainment facility.

Paladino, founder and chairman of Ellicott Development Co., said he didn’t have any specific plans yet for the 13-acre parcel at 201 Ganson St., former home of Man O’ Trees. Indeed, he hadn’t even originally planned on bidding.

“Our plans are very fluid. We’re very open to ideas,” he said. “I’m not thinking of anything right now. When I got up this morning, I wasn’t planning on buying anything.”

But he cited strong potential for the property, which currently has five buildings totaling 54,544 square feet.

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Via WIVB Channel 4

By Jenn Schanz

BUFFALO. N.Y. (WIVB) — Expansion in the Queen City demands more housing.

The approach? Several new luxury apartment options downtown.

Kristan Andersen, Vice President of real estate firm Gurney Becker & Bourne has been renting apartments here for years.

She told News 4 she’s seeing new trends.

“The prices have gone way up in the rental market,” she said.

Just five years ago, three-bedroom apartments rented for around $1,000 a month downtown; the going rate for new luxury apartments in the same area is around $1,500 for a one-bedroom.

For young people returning to Buffalo, the change is a shock.

“I was surprised at the rent. There were a lot of apartments that were between $700 and $900 for like a one bedroom or a studio,” said Buffalo native Michael Wysochanski.

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Article via Buffalo News
By Jonathan D. Epstein

The redevelopment of Ohio Street in the Old First Ward is gaining traction, as Ellicott Development seeks final approval for a planned mixed-use residential and commercial project facing the Buffalo River.

Ellicott is seeking approval from the Buffalo Planning Board to build a five-story, 54,000-square-foot building at 399 Ohio, next to Buffalo RiverFest Park, with 21 apartments on the top three floors, office space on the second floor, and a first-floor restaurant. The project, which will include both one- and two-bedroom apartments, received a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals in February.

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Article via dine365.com

Although the name, Brioso, is Spanish, the restaurant brands itself as Contemporary American cuisine with a Southwestern flair, featuring recognizable and market-driven foods with a tasty twist. Brioso is located inside the Wyndham Garden Hotel which sits at the corner of Main Street and South Forest in the Village of Williamsville.

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