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This brick warehouse property on Ohio Street in Buffalo would be renovated and significantly expanded by Apollo Dismantling Services of Niagara Falls.
A Niagara Falls demolition company that has been expanding its work in Buffalo plans to invest $10 million in a new Buffalo operations base along an industrial stretch of Ohio Street near the Outer Harbor.
Sam DeFranks’ Apollo Dismantling Services, which owns 670-710 Ohio, wants to construct more than 90,000 square feet of warehouse space on the triangular industrial property immediately south of Rigidized Metals Corp., where the CSX rail tracks meet Ohio just before the rail yard.
The property was originally owned and operated by Pratt & Lambert United’s Pierce & Stevens Chemical Corp. until the subsidiary was acquired by Sovereign Specialty Chemicals, which in turn was later bought in 2004 by Germany’s Henkel Corp.
The 6.35-acre site currently has 142,915 square feet of existing buildings, constructed in 1950, with eight loading docks and three overhead doors.
Plans by Silvestri Architects and Carmina Wood Morris PC call for a 27,500-square-foot pre-fabricated metal-panel-and-concrete-block warehouse at the southern tip of the property, plus two additions of 20,000 square feet and 45,000 square feet. Those would be built onto the existing two-story brick-and-concrete-block structure on the northern end of the property.
Parts of the current building would be demolished to make way for the additions, while 45,418 square feet would be renovated. The parking lot would also be reconfigured, for 91 spaces.
The project, which would take 24 months to build, received site plan and coastal assessment approval from the Planning Board on Tuesday. About 20 jobs would be created.
The Planning Board also backed a rezoning of 486-488 W. Utica St., to allow Deacon and Cassandra Tasker of Rosie’s Handcrafted Ice Cream in East Aurora to open a second craft ice cream shop, with craft beer sales, near the Five Points intersection.
And it supported special-use permits from the Common Council for Alison Clancy to open Mint Cocktails & Kitchen restaurant at 1225-1227 Niagara St., with an outdoor patio, and for Mokhtar Almansoob to operate the Hertel Smokes tobacco and vaping shop at 1208 Hertel Ave.
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I've been a business reporter at The Buffalo News since 2004, now covering residential and commercial real estate and development amid WNY's resurgence. I'm an upstate native, proud to call Buffalo my home, and committed to covering it thoroughly.
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