Holy Angels’ new athletic and performance center is going up. The 17,700 sq.’ facility is the school’s way of capitalizing on their five and a half acre North Buffalo campus, while providing school athletes with an 8,690 sq.’ competition-size gymnasium. Not only will there be additional sport facilities inside, there will also be upgraded amenities including: ‘home and visitor locker rooms, a new fitness/training room; two digital-interactive, whiteboard-equipped classrooms; a new clinic; athletics faculty offices; spectator restrooms and snack bar; and significant storage area’.
Between 1874 and 1908 the Holy Angels campus was located on Porter Avenue. That series of buildings is now D’Youville College. The Hertel/Shoshone campus was built in 1929, with the convent building being added in 1961. Now the school, one of the oldest Catholic private girls’ high schools in WNY, is taking another leap forward by offering students the ability to compete on another level. This is just phase 1 in an effort to bring ‘a performing arts center, a library and digital media center, and science facilities’ to the campus. The current $2.2 million upgrade is a major step up for Holy Angels and another big score for Hertel. The addition was designed by Stieglitz Snyder Architecture.
Bill Zimmermann
Bill runs Seven Seas Sailing school, and is a staunch waterfront activist. He is also heavily involved with preserving, maintaining, and promoting the South Buffalo Lighthouse. When Bill first started writing for Buffalo Rising, he wrote an article a day for 365 days - each article coincided with a significant historic event that happened in Buffalo on that same day.