Stitch Buffalo, a 9-year-old nonprofit that started as an embroidery workshop for refugee women on the West Side, is a step closer to getting a new and larger home on the ground floor of a renovated Plymouth Avenue building.
Ellicott Development Co. is rehabbing a vacant two-story former auto body shop building near D’Youville University, which the developer will partly lease to the nonprofit to house its textile workshops, classes, donations, recycling and consignment shop.
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Stitch Buffalo will occupy the 4,800-square-foot first floor of the brick building at 284 Plymouth, while the second floor will have four two-bedroom apartments.
The new location is about 1.4 miles south of the nonprofit’s current headquarters at 1215 Niagara, where it has outgrown its 1,700-square-foot space.
The 9,600-square-foot Plymouth building sits on 0.1 acres on the west side of the street, and will have a maximum capacity of 50 people for the Stitch space. The walkup apartments, averaging 1,100 to 1,200 square feet with two different layouts, will take up the second floor, filling the rest of the building.
Ellicott already received minor site plan approval from the city Planning Department last week, and is now seeking a special-use permit and easement from the Common Council to allow the “artisan industrial” use. The project has received “quite a bit of support,” including a letter from Common Council Member David…
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