HES Properties III, LLC is proposing a three-story mixed-use building on a pair of vacant lots at 382 and 386 Grant Street. This will be the development team’s third project along the Grant Street corridor, joining the complete gut rehab of the former Martino Appliance Store located at 368 Grant Street and followed by the award-winning new building located at 363 Grant Street. The new building proposed for 386 Grant will continue HES’s commitment to filling in gaps in the West Side landscape.
The 6,000-square foot, wood-framed new building at 386 Grant will have one commercial space measuring approximately 700 square feet; one accessible apartment unit on the first floor measuring approximately 800 square feet; and four additional residential apartments on the second and third floors, each measuring approximately 950 square feet. The overall building footprint is anticipated to be approximately 2,000 square feet, and its height is anticipated to be approximately 40 feet, matching the buildings in the immediate area.
Continuing HES’s extensive commitment to green, eco-friendly development, 386 Grant will feature complete geothermal heating and cooling, extensive solar panels and two bicycle racks. 386 Grant will also feature six new parking spaces, with three EV car chargers. The site design also calls for new street trees, matching landscape plantings, new sidewalks and new site lighting. 386 Grant’s design will feature masonry brick, composite wood panels, hardie plank siding, stone sills, anodized aluminum frame storefront windows, and extensive apartment windows.
The launch of 386 Grant represents the culmination of over four years of tireless design, planning and adjustment work by HES, during which time HES had to find creative ways to overcome Covid-19, supply chain challenges, interest rate hikes, increased construction costs, and the loss of Section 485-a tax abatements.
“We had to contend with an awful lot to get to this point, but Matt and I were determined to bring this beautiful new building to life no matter what the challenges,” said Christopher Siano, member of HES. “We certainly had to adjust and pivot many things from when we first discussed doing this project, but in the end, Matt and I used all of our talents to put our company in a position to continue to improve Buffalo’s Westside and develop these vacant lots.”
HES will be holding an information session at The Law Office of Stephanie Adams, 363 Grant, at 6 pm to solicit neighborhood input. The project requires two variances including one for a 2’-6” setback on the first floor and for the commercial storefront entrance not being located on the front façade. The City will start its review of the project later this month.
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