Planning Board approves East Side housing project

New affordable housing is coming to Kensington Avenue on a Buffalo site where the principal industry vanished decades ago.

The site at 240 Kensington Avenue near Fillmore Avenue was once Hewitt-Robbins, a company that closed nearly four decades ago. Since then, the building has sat and deteriorated.

Now, an alliance of developers, David Pawlik and Nick Sinatra, has put together a complicated $8 million deal for 40 housing units on part of the old industrial site. The goal is to start construction in November and be open in the fall. Pawlik said it is a complicated structure to build because the soil is tricky.