Huron project comes up for review
July 20, 2009
by: James Fink
A historic downtown Buffalo building may soon find new life as a market-rate apartment complex.
Kissling Interests hopes to transform the historic, but long vacant former Hotel Huron and Lake Hotel at 201 W. Huron St. into eight market-rate apartments. The four-story building dates back to the early 1880s.
The Buffalo Planning Board is expected to review the proposed $1.1 million privately-funded project when it meets on July 28.
Carmina Wood & Morris, a Buffalo architecture and engineering firm, is handling the project for Kissling Interests.
Tentative plans call for each of the units to have two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and at least one bathroom.
Construction could start by October and the building should be tenant-ready by late 2010.
The project is one of several on Kissling's local agenda, including restoring the Allentown Lofts on Virginia Street and the conversion of a former Remington Road warehouse into the mixed-used Remington Lofts in North Tonawanda.