Christopher Wan’s $10 million plan to redevelop a long-neglected corner on the edge of downtown Buffalo and Allentown into apartments and shops got the go-ahead this week from the Buffalo Planning Board.
After 10 years of assembling properties at West Tupper Street and South Elmwood Avenue, Wan wants to bring 42 new studio, one- and two-bedroom units to the neighborhood, as well as up to seven retail businesses – all housed in a four-story brick building with a cast-stone base. That would replace several dilapidated structures, most of which are vacant, and all of which would be demolished to make room for the new build.
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Upon completion, the multi-use building at 147 W. Tupper would contain eight studio apartments of 490 to 570 square feet, 30 one-bedroom units ranging from 580 to 750 square feet and four two-bedroom apartments of 930 to 950 square feet. All would be located on the second and third floors. There also would be amenities like a 1,000-square-foot rooftop garden.
Designed by Silvestri Architects and Hamburg native Jay Valgora of Studio V Architecture in New York City, it would also offer 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail spaces of 1,050 to 2,440 square feet. And it would have 80 parking spaces – 41 in the basement and 39 in a landscaped surface lot.
One neighbor on Trinity Place, Rhonda Riley, raised concerns about the height of the building compared to the existing…
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