Past Projects
The International Hostel
The renovation of the former Norban's into Buffalo's first downtown hostel was HCN's first renovation project, completed in 1998. The project saved an architecturally interesting, small commercial structure and had brought international travelers into the heart of the City.
View More >>Mixed-Use Residential
This once vacant, dilapidated building was purchased and rehabilitated by two dedicated HCN Board Members. In partnership with other Board Members and neighborhood volunteers, they converted one unit into the business office for HCN and the other into a two-bedroom residential unit.
View More >>
About Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc.
Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc. (HCN) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Community Development Corporation created to stabilize Buffalo's core communities bounded by Michigan Avenue on the east, Lake Erie on the south, the Niagara River on the west and Porter Avenue on the north, through redevelopment, neighborhood stabilization, and affordable housing development.
Working together with residents and neighborhood organizations such as West Side Neighborhood Housing Services, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the Community Preservation Corporation, and financial institutions and real estate professionals to make stabilizing and creating integrated, mixed income neighborhoods where individuals and families of all incomes will have a better quality of life and take pride in their property, their street, and their community.
Heart of the City Neighborhoods
42 Plymouth Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14201
Tel: (716) 882-7661
Fax: (716) 882-7662
Staff
- Stephanie Simeon, Executive Director
- D. Darlie Al-Haqq, Housing Development Specialist
Board of Directors
- Isabel Hartenberg, President
- Cynthia Schwartz, Vice-President
- Jessica Keltz, Secretary
- Dinah Gamin, Treasurer
Members
- William DiCamillo, Esq.
Attorney, Goldfarb Lipman, LLC. - Dawn Drummer
Fish & Wildlife Specialist, U.S. Dept. of Interior - Tim Favaro
Attorney, Cannon, Heyman, and Weiss, LLP - Charles Saunders
Owner, AMTHOR Glass - Amy Stromberg, Esq.
Adult Program Coordinator, Jewish Community Center - Manuel Rivera III
Architectural Designer III, Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects, LLC - Wendes Jones
Designer - Lorilee Green
Private Banking Senior Specialist, HSBC Bank
