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Regardless of the apparent need for more affordable housing, construction on the Blocher Housing project in Williamsville has already made a heavily traveled two-lane stretch of Evans Street between Main ....
After years of protests and legal wrangling, construction has begun on People Inc. s $42 million project to convert a former senior residence in Williamsville to mixed-income housing. ....
Managers at the Beechwood Continuing Care campus in Getzville haven t lived up to their promises to prepare a comfortable living environment for the 25 seniors who moved over last month from the Blocher Homes apartments in Williamsville, according to relatives of one resident. For those residents, most in their 80s and 90s but including at least one centenarian, the move marked the end of a distressing saga that began nearly 18 months ago. That s when officials from Beechwood and People Inc. announced plans for what became a $31.5 million project to convert the Blocher Homes site on Evans Street to mixed-income housing. The residents bitterly opposed the move and organized at least one widely covered protest, but when the village Planning Board approved the project in September they were left with little choice but to go. ....