Planting the Seeds to Transform former Plewacki Post into new Buffalo Animal Shelter

Broadway Fillmore Alive firmly supports the Central Terminal Neighborhood Association and Greater Eastside Block Club Field of Dreams in their advocacy to transform the former Plewaki Post on Paderewski Dr. into a new City of Buffalo Animal Shelter. It would be a huge win for the neighborhood, the city, and the animals in need of shelter.

From the Central Terminal Neighborhood Association Facebook page:

The Central Terminal Neighborhood Association and Greater Eastside Block Club Fields of Dreams Buffalo held a special meeting on August 8 to discuss the potential for a new City of Buffalo Animal Shelter at the former Plewacki Post, 379 Paderewski Drive.

Our message to the City is clear: we enthusiastically support the Animal Shelter, and we want this investment to be part of a much larger commitment to the people and families of Broadway Fillmore.

Together, our organizations call upon the City of Buffalo and its partners to:

– Locate the new City of Buffalo Animal Shelter at the former Plewacki Post, while designing it as more than a conventional shelter. Community activities and meeting space, affordable spay/neuter and vaccination services, animal training classes, a cat cafe, pet food pantry, and other public-facing uses can make this a truly mixed-use center of community life.

– Immediately begin construction of the long-delayed $2.3 million playground improvements at Sears Paderewski Park, giving neighborhood children and families the quality recreational facilities they have been promised.

– Make a multi-million-dollar commitment to repair and revitalize the Lincoln Community Center and Park, restoring this important neighborhood institution as a safe, welcoming, fully functioning center for recreation and community life.

– Work with philanthropic partners to advance the William-Emslie YMCA’s proposed $10 million expansion and expand scholarships so that low- and moderate-income Broadway Fillmore households can fully benefit from its programs and facilities.

– Explore opportunities to restore critical human services lost with the move of the Matt Urban Hope Center to 243 Sears Street, including Code Blue and other services for our most vulnerable neighbors.