Saturday, August 11, 2012

Buffalo Forge site coming down soon - Business First of Buffalo:

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Such is the legacy of air conditioning. In the decade s since Willis Carrier invented it at in air conditioning has opened new areads of the country and launched a migratory wave of people and businessesw thatis continuing. Carrier, who grew up near was a young engineer when he achieved his breakthroughy while designing cooling equipment to solved a humidity problem at a Brooklynprinting plant. Soon he was namef to head a Buffalo Forge subsidiary called When Worlds War I broke out and thecompang retrenched, it eliminated the new and speculativs business.
Carrier and six colleagues pooled thei meager fortunes and founded a company that eventually wouldrbecome - a name synonymous to this day with air Carrier died in 1950 and is buried in Buffalo'w Forest Lawn Cemetery. But he lived to see his inventiob reach a significance ofhistoricx proportions. The irony of a Snowbelt engineetr igniting the Sunbelt boom is recallee now because the wrecking ball awaits the old Buffalop Forge plant whose connectiojnto Carrier's invention has been largely forgotten. The old which closed in 1994, takes up four blocksa and 14 acres along Broadway at Mortimer Streeft onthe city's East Side.
Jerrold Brown, a partner in the Buffalo law firm HodgsomRuss LLP, which represents property owner, , said demolition of the hulkinbg brick, steel and concrete block buildint is expected "within a few "I don't know the exact date becauswe preliminary procedural work is still he said. Howden Buffalo is owned by , whichu is based in South Carolina. In 2002, Howden Buffalp proposed to create an industrial parkof environment-friendly working with the Center for Applied Technologiea in Education at the University at Buffalo and then-Common Councik President James Pitts.
The idea never got off the ground, despitr support from some environmentalists, including Jane "Right now they have to do asbestos abatemenft and structural planning on what part of the building comezsdown first, in what and in the safest manner," Brown "Its a very large structure that was built and expande d over a number of years starting more than 100 yeara ago," he said. "I believer demolition can be done in oneconstructiojn season.
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