A warehouse at the northeast corner of Seneca and Hamburg streets will become the Larkin District’s first significant residential project. “The Square at Larkinville” will feature 31 market-rate apartments and 18,500 sq.ft. of office space at 550 Seneca Street. It is being undertaken by Frontier Group of Companies. CSS Construction will be an investor and serve as the general contractor for the $5.4 million project that has been designed by Carmina Wood Morris.

Another Buffalo church has found new life as residential space. Creative Structures Services (CSS), a general contracting, project management and development firm headed by David Pawlik and Russell Kyte, has recently finished work on the former Buffalo Covenant Church at 786 Kenmore Avenue.

A dozen apartments and one live-work unit are now located in the building located at Kenmore and Harvest avenues. The Evangelical church decided to shut down due to declining membership and held its final service in the building one year ago. The congregation had occupied the structure since its construction in 1947.

Creative Structures Services (CSS) has wrapped-up conversion of a historic Buffalo library into luxury apartments and is diving into a similar project on Kenmore Avenue. The general contracting, project management and development firm headed by David Pawlik and Russell Kyte transformed the former Fairfield Library at 1659 Amherst Street into five apartments and a small amount of office space.

Creative Structures Services (CSS) is planning another adaptive reuse project in North Buffalo. With one residential conversion under its belt and a second under construction, the development is proposing to convert the 13,000 sq.ft. Buffalo Covenant Church at 786 Kenmore Avenue into residential and commercial space.

The Fairfield Library, already a landmark in the hearts and minds of thousands of Buffalonians, is poised to become an officially designated city landmark. Unless, of course, a developer has his way. The building has been vacant since 2005, when Erie County closed the branch. The building stands prominently on a sweep of green lawn at Amherst and Fairfield streets in Parkside, a familiar landmark for over 100 years, even for those who never walked in its doors. The building opened as a Unitarian Church in 1897. Designed by eminent architect, Parkside resident, and Unitarian Willam Sydney Wicks, the structure is a unique Classical Revival building with cedar shingle siding.