Constructed in 1912 for The Monarch Knitting Company, Regan Development teamed with Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center (Matt Urban) and Jericho Road Community Health Center (Jericho), to acquire this 110,000 sf, 4-story (with 2-story annex & boiler house) brick & heavy timber day-lit warehouse complex to redevelop it into a 78-unit, NYS Housing and Community Renewal-funded, affordable apartment building and health care facility in Buffalo’s underserved urban Fillmore Neighborhood. Matt Urban: a multi-faceted agency provides Housing Services, Senior Services, Senior Apartments, Weatherization Program, Youth and Family Services, Homeless Outreach Services, G.E.D. and Work Skills Training, Crime Victims Assistance, Food Pantries & The Matt Urban Hope Center. Jericho provides culturally sensitive medical care, especially for refugee and low-income community members, facilitating wellness and self-sufficiency by addressing health, education, economic and spiritual barriers to demonstrate Jesus’ unconditional love for the whole person.

The building and site for the last several decades has been somewhat abused used for storage of various materials, both inside and out, ranging from tires and vehicles to surplus office & housing products. The primary masonry structure has heavy timber wood floor, column, and roof framing; typical durable ‘fire-resistant’ construction of turn-of-the-20th Century industrial buildings in Western New York. Although it’s in reasonable condition, there has been some severe water damage, causing some structural failure, although being occupied continuously. This made it a difficult and expense repair, but appropriate for a new use.

Brownfield, State Affordable Housing, and IRS & State Historic Tax credits were utilized to enable the rejuvenation of this worn-down blighted warehouse facility to provide a new mix of one, two & three-bedroom apartments, 1,600 sf of residential community space, and 400 sf for Matt Urban offices. A new 6,000 sf stand-alone, one (1)-story structure, was also created in corner of the site along the main street as a new full-service community health center, operated by Jericho.