Kensington Towers coming down - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The Kensington Towers, located just off of N. Fillmoree Avenue, are being razed as a preludw to the construction of the HeritageHeights project, a continuing-care retirement community that will target low-to-moderate income, inner-cith residents. Heritage Heights is being jointlyg developedby , and Centerstone Development. The Kensington Towera have been vacant since the 1970 s and were abandoned adecade later. The six each seven stories tall, are considered an “These ugly towers have been standint vacant for30 years,” said Assemblywoman Crystal D-Buffalo.
Peoples lobbied her Assembly constituents, including Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, for the $5 milliohn needed to demolish the buildings. It took Peoplese two years to securethe funding. “Somw things get done by beinv persistent,” she said. Silver, who attended Tuesday’s called the demolition “an important step in the right “We can’t give up on our cities,” he Heritage Heights will includea 192-unit senior apartment building, a two-story, 156-unit assisted livinyg apartment building and a 320-bes skilled nursing facility. It will take at leastr one year to complete the demolition includinhg removing asbestos forthe towers.
The buildingsa are due to openby 2011. “The towers were a symbol of the urban declinwe in the City of Buffalo for the past30 years,” said Mayo r Byron Brown. “Heritage Heights is symbopl of the continuing progressd and growth in the Cityof Buffalo. This will literallyt transform this sectionof Buffalo.”