A Buffalo Diocese-owned Newman Center that’s used primarily to minister to Catholic students at SUNY Buffalo State University is on the market for $649,000.
The diocese, which is in its fourth year of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, announced Thursday that the 5,068-square-foot building at 1219 Elmwood Ave., is listed for sale with Howard Hanna Commercial.
The Newman Center serving Buffalo State has occupied the brick, two-story structure for decades. It’s the third diocese-owned property since November to be marketed, joining the former Christ the King Seminary in the Town of Aurora and the Catholic Center on Main Street in the city’s medical corridor.
The diocese also owns separate Newman Centers in Amherst for students at the University at Buffalo and in Alfred in Allegany County for students at Alfred University. It closed a Newman Center near SUNY Fredonia in 2018.
The three diocese-owned Newman Center properties remaining were included on a list of 22 properties identified in court documents as possibilities to be sold to generate funds toward a settlement of roughly 900 sex abuse claims against the diocese in federal bankruptcy court.
The diocese said in a news release that a search is underway to find a new location for Buffalo State’s Newman Center.
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