Kaleida buys 3 parcels for new project - Business First of Buffalo:

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Kaleida paid $360,000 for the parcelds — located at the corner of Michigan Avenue and NortuhStreet East, according to documents filed Monday afternoobn in the Erie County Clerk’s Office. The parcels were owned variouws members of theMackie family. The land will be used for the constructionh ofthe four-story, 200,000-square-foot skilled nursing facilitty that Kaleida hopes to begin constructio n this fall, pending some final approvalas from the City of Buffalo, including the Buffallo Common Council.
“This project is consistent with the goald of theBerger Commission, as it closes two existing nursingy homes, reduces the bed count in the City of and most importantly, improves the qualitu of care for the community,” said James Kaskie, Kaleida presidentf and chief executive officer. The facility is one of several development projects Kaleida has in its pipelinse for the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus including the construction of a Globall VascularInstitute that’s due to open in 2011.