Another longtime major affordable housing complex in Buffalo is poised for a significant state-funded rehab, as the owner of the Ellicott Town Center adjacent to downtown prepares to launch a $73 million upgrade of the 30-year-old community.
First Shiloh Housing Corporations – an affiliate of First Shiloh Baptist Church – is partnering with Beacon Communities of Boston on a renovation of the residential complex, located east of Michigan Avenue, occupying most of the block between East Eagle, South Division and Pine streets. Its formal address is 233 E. Eagle.
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That’s also behind the former Buffalo headquarters of Norstar USA, whose affordable housing operations and upstate New York business were taken over by Beacon in a December 2022 deal that also included three key staff members.
Built in 1995, on the site of the former Ellicott Mall public-housing project, the complex includes four apartment towers and 24 senior patio homes, for a total of 281 living units for seniors and families, and has been fully owned by the church affiliate for more than a decade. Occupancy is generally more than 90%.
“It’s a fantastic location. You’re walking distance to downtown and to jobs, and you’ve got the bus line on Michigan,” said Linda L. Goodman, senior vice president at Beacon in Buffalo, and formerly at Norstar.
But like many such aging communities, it’s in need of repairs, updates and an overall rehab,…
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