The big trend in development across the Buffalo Niagara region is taking something old and turning it into something new, often tony apartments and a smattering of commercial space.
National Grid is supporting revitalization and growth in Western New York by providing more than $1 million in economic development grants to regional businesses that are redeveloping brownfield sites and historic buildings, repurposing abandoned and dilapidated properties, turning vacant stores into affordable housing units, renovating space to create a permanent home for a nonprofit organization, and more.
Buffalo contractor James Panepinto is expanding his warehouse business near the Cheektowaga town line, proposing to construct a 9,750-square-foot facility on the back corner of a property he owns on
Benderson Development Co. is planning a new retail and restaurant building at the site of a former Pizza Hut restaurant in the middle of its Transit Road-area holdings in Amherst.