Public School 24 / 59 / C.R. Drew Science Magnet
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December 2008
November 2016
March 2017
Photo credit: David Torke, fixBuffalo, ROCC, John Straubinger
Location
769 Best Street, Buffalo, NY 14211
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Fillmore Council District
SBL: 100.76-4-1.1
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Next to: 1076 Genesee Street
Across from: Public School 24 [original]
Owner
PARKVIEW APARTMENTS HOUSING per City of Buffalo Property Information
NYS Corporation and Business Entity Database
Formerly CITY OF BUFFALO BD OF ED SCHOOL #59
Physical Description
Four story brick school building on a corner parcel, across from MLK Park (The Parade)
Current Condition
Undergoing renovation into apartments
History
- 1901 - Built as School 24. Architect Charles D. Swan
- Renamed School 59 in 1976
- Later renamed the CR Drew Science Magnet school, after Charles R. Drew, an African-American physician and medical researcher who pioneered blood banking during World War II.
Recent Events and Actions Taken
- 2002 - School closed.
- November 2014 - Plan announced for a residential renovation project. Parkview Apartments would contain 26 units. Inclusion Development Associates’ Rhonda A. Ricks is spearheading the project. Buffalo Rising
- March 2016, Jim Fink in Business First: "Citizens Bank is providing the $4.58 million construction loan to Parkview Apartments of Buffalo LLC, the Miami-based real estate development and invest firm that is taking on the $7.2 million project. Parkview Apartments is an affiliate of Stuart Alexander & Associates, which has worked on several other Buffalo residential-based projects. Located almost across from Martin Luther King Jr. Park and the Buffalo Museum of Science, the school has been vacant for nearly a decade. The four-story, circa-1901 building, with 49,071-square-feet, had been used as a school since its earliest days. The Buffalo School District closed School 59, formerly School 24, because of dwindling enrollments."
Other Pertinent Facts
Links
- BuffaloAH - Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood ANNOTATED LIST OF PROPERTIES
- Buffalo Rising, November 2014 - Linwood Avenue Church, East Side School Going Residential
- Business First, March 2016: Parkview Apartments secures Citizens Bank loan for project in Buffalo
- Buffalo News, May 2016 - Building Buffalo / Former Best Street school getting new life as affordable senior housing
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Added 2013-02-28 • Last changed 2017-03-28