{"id":73615,"date":"2025-12-30T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:26:12","slug":"erie-county-child-and-family-services-acquire-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73615\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County child and family services acquire church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjsfyl4r000e01sb4w3jwb27@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) &#8211; In a deal several months in the making, Child &amp; Family Services of Erie County has officially acquired the St. Andrews Church and School properties, paying $1.4 million dollars which includes five parcels along Sheridan Drive and Lowell Road in the Town of\u00a0Tonawanda.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjsg18lw001v357vj31rqbbn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Included in the deal is the vacant St. Andrew&#8217;s Church, St. Andrew&#8217;s School and rectory, with the Child and Family Services planning to use the complex to run a series of programs.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjsg18n6001w357vi3q4te4b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">A vacant parcel at 859 Broadway in Buffalo &#8211; where a three-story, late 1800s era building once stood &#8211; has been acquired by local investors 4 Link Inc with plans for the property still being determined.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjsg18od001x357vkxwlpi2j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">New owners who bought the former Seneca Mall site back in late 2024 after being vacant for decades has recently began to make progress on the property.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjsg18ri001y357vrs4y7u40@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Plans for the site include 500,000 square feet of commercial development including a discount club as West Seneca Town Board approved rezoning in May for redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmjsg18sj001z357vuwp8tewt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">To make a submission to the West Herr WBEN Buffalo Business Report, send an email to newsroom@wben.com.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) &#8211; In a deal several months in the making, Child &amp; Family Services of Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-73615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}