The Pierce-Arrow Building may soon have residential lofts on itis third floor. Sharon Linstedt writes in todayis News:
A Brooklyn-based investor has purchased the Pierce-Arrow administration building, 1695 Elmwood, at Great Arrow Avenue, for $1 million. Joseph Hecht and his newly formed Pierce-Arrow Holdings LLC purchased the circa-1906 structure from longtime owner Edmund Truty.
“I fell in love with this building. It has a lot of history and is very well maintained,” Hecht said. “It’s a nice mixed-use building now, but we want to take a look at adding residential on the third floor.”
The 135,000-square-foot brick structure was designed by Buffalo’s George Cary as Pierce-Arrow’s administrative headquarters. The building, which still bears the Pierce-Arrow name above its entrance, stands in front of what once was the automaker’s 1 million-plus-square-foot car plant.
Last two photos from this site that scares me…