City plan calling for knocking down Third, Fourth street buildings on hold

[From Niagara-Gazette.com]

The city’s Community Development department’s plans to purchase and demolish two buildings in the Third Street Business District are on hold.

The planning board voted 6-0 to table a vote to recommend to the council that the city purchase 515 Third St. and 508 Fourth St. with the intention of knocking them down to make way for a parking lot and a “shovel ready” site for future development while creating a connection between the streets, a plan put forth by Mayor Paul Dyster’s administration…

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