The Buffalo Catholic Diocese’s headquarters in the former Courier-Express newspaper building on Main Street in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is being listed for sale at $9.8 million.
The Buffalo Diocese has set the price at $5.3 million for a bucolic property in the Town of Aurora where it used to have men trained to become priests.
Proceeds from the sale will be used to help settle child sex abuse claims in the diocese’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
The listing has been anticipated for years, and it will be the second large diocese property put on the market following the listing of the former Christ the King Seminary in the Town of Aurora in November.
The diocese spent about $4 million to buy and renovate the five-story office building in 1985, according to diocese spokesman Joseph Martone. At the time, diocese staff filled the available space, but in recent years the building has been less than half full. Sixty-five to 70 people – about three-quarters of the total central office staff – regularly work in the building now, he said. Nearly 300 diocese staff occupied the building in the late 1980s.
“It’s a very big structure, and we need to find a place that better suits our needs,” Martone said.
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