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Living Communities, LLC, in partnership with Delta Development Corporation, has been awarded Low Income Housing
Tax Credits
June 30, 2009
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Living Communities, LLC, in partnership with Delta Development Corporation, has been awarded Low Income Housing Tax Credits for
an $8M, 35-unit senior affordable housing project, Holy Family Senior Apartments in Buffalo, NY. This award was announced June
30, 2009 by New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal.
Buffalo, NY, July 21, 2009 - A long-vacant building in South Buffalo that once served as Western New York's largest parochial school will be transformed
into new housing for senior citizens.
The former Holy Family Elementary School, at 1901 South Avenue near Tift Street will become a 35-unit apartment complex.
City, state, federal and county officials announced the $9 million project Monday at the site, lauding it as a collaboration
among various government entities.
Construction will begin later this year or in early 2010. The facility will provide affordable housing to low-and-moderate-income
residents who are at least 55 years old.
Some of the apartments in the Holy Family Senior Housing Development will be tailored to frail residents and will include an
emergency call response system and features that make them accessible to people who have physical impairments.
The city will commit $900,000 in funds it receives from the federal government to promote housing, Mayor Byron W. Brown said
Monday. The Rev. James B. Cunningham, administrator of Holy Family Parish, said there is a pressing need for senior housing
in communities across America. "So we consider ourselves very fortunate and, indeed, blessed by this senior housing grant,"
he said.
The elementary school was opened in 1915 and closed 89 years later as part of a consolidation of parochial schools in the city.
The housing project should be completed in early 2011. The three-story structure will house 30 one-bedroom units and 5 two-bedroom
apartments.
Among officials joining Brown and Cunningham at Monday's news conference were Rep. Brian Higgins, Assemblyman Mark Schroeder and
Erie County legislator Timothy M. Kennedy.
The development will complement millions of dollars in capital improvements that are being made as part of the South Park Avenue
Reconstruction Project, said officials.
The article was written by Brian Meyer, News Staff Reporter, and published in the Buffalo News on July 21, 2009.
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