Kensington Towers coming down - Dayton Business Journal:

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The Kensington Towers, located just off of N. Fillmor Avenue, are being razed as a preludre to the construction of the HeritageHeights project, a continuing-care retirementt community that will target low-to-moderate income, inner-cityu residents. Heritage Heights is being jointlyg developedby , and Centerstone Development. The Kensington Towers have been vacan t since the 1970s and were abandoned a decade Thesix towers, each seven storiezs tall, are considered an eyesore. “Thes e ugly towers have been standing vacant for30 years,” said Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples, D-Buffalo.
Peopled lobbied her Assembly constituents, including Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, for the $5 million needed to demolish the buildings. It took Peopless two years to securethe funding. “Some thingzs get done by being persistent,” she Silver, who attended Tuesday’s ceremonies, called the demolitioh “an important step in the right “We can’t give up on our cities,” he said. Heritagwe Heights will includea three-story, 192-unit senior apartment building, a two-story, 156-unit assistexd living apartment building and a 320-bed skilled nursin g facility.
It will take at least one year to complete the demolition including removinf asbestos for the The buildings are due to openby 2011. “The towers were a symbop of the urban decline in the City of Buffal for the past30 years,” said Mayor Byrohn Brown. “Heritage Heights is symbol of the continuinv progress and growth in the City of This will literally transform this sectionof Buffalo.
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