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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v7n7 (02/14/2008) » Section: The News, Briefly


The Modern Business Method

Last week I wrote about the sale of 185 acres in South Buffalo by Steelfields Ltd. to the City of Buffalo—or, to be precise, to the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, which will use $4.6 million in city funds to purchase the former Superfund site from Steelfields, a three-way partnership helmed by Gary Smith, chief operating officer of Modern Disposal Corporation in Niagara County.



The Privateers

On February 12, Artvoice received a press release from former WGRZ-TV investigative reporter Stefan Mychajliw, who now serves as Special Assistant to the Superintendent of the Buffalo Public School District, Dr. James Williams.



Space for Improvement

When Artspace Buffalo received its first tenants last summer, glowing reports seemed to issue forth from the building nearly everyday, and for good reason. The $16.9 million project that converted the nearly 100-year-old Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company building at 1219 Main Street into affordable housing units for artists and their families was brimming with promise. When the dust of construction settled, there would be 60 live/work units available to local artists of every stripe, offering them not only the chance to live in expansive, affordable lofts, but also a close-at-hand community of like-minded creative people with whom to cooperate and collaborate. Not only that, but the project’s implications would go beyond its tenants and extend into the long-neglected Midtown neighborhood, attracting investment and bridging the racial and economic gap that’s long separated East Side from West.





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