Developer M.J. Peterson Corp. is planning more than 250 new senior housing apartments for the northwestern part of the Town of Amherst, along East Robinson Road.
After years of relative inactivity, the more rural northern parts of Amherst are seeing a surge of new development projects that are bringing hundreds of new apartments aimed at young
Developer Paul Bliss is pursuing a five-story mixed-use project at Tennyson Terrace that would introduce another 34 market-rate apartments to the local mix.
From Amherst, Clarence and Lancaster to Niagara County, local economic development agencies are increasingly approving tax breaks for market-rate housing and retail projects.