Buffalo’s Elmwood Village neighborhood, named one of America’s 10 Great Neighborhoods by the American Planning Association, is now seeing a major redevelopment project. Named “Elmwood Crossing”, it is on an eight-acre site formerly occupied by Buffalo’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The Hospital relocated in November 2017 to the City’s Medical Campus about a mile away.
A team of Sinatra & Company Real Estate and Ellicott Development Company was named designated developer in July 2017 and is developing the site into a 690,000 square-foot mixed-use development that is mostly an adaptive reuse of the vacated Hospital buildings, with demolition occurring on only about 5% of the existing structures. The development team has reportedly spent $7 million on consultants and specialists related to the project.
The 10-story main Hospital tower will be retrofitted for residential and hospitality use and other buildings will be converted and expanded for use as professional offices, a hotel, and a health and wellness center. A grocery store of between 25,000 and 40,000 square feet is planned subject to obtaining a user. One of the buildings will house a 4,500 square foot child care facility with an outdoor play area. A surface parking lot will be transformed into space for retail stores, offices and apartments.
Housing will include 27 luxury condominiums with prices up to $1 million, 20 for-sale townhomes, and 220 apartments, 20% of which are designated for low to moderate income residents spread out among several buildings.
On Elmwood Avenue, the major street of the Elmwood Village, the urban character of the surrounding neighborhood will be enhanced by a new six-story structure with three floors of apartments above retail space with completion and occupancy projected for late 2019.
Brownfield remediation and site work is now underway. The overall project is anticipated to have a three to four year buildout time.
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