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Documents reveal Ellicott Station built on foundation of misunderstood housing terms

ellicott station ground breaking may 2022

By Howard B. Owens
Jul 15, 2024, 8:05am

What is mixed-income housing? Workforce housing? Low-income housing? Affordable housing? Market-rate housing?

These terms appear frequently in thousands of documents obtained from government agencies by The Batavian for an investigation into how the 55-unit apartment building under construction at Ellicott Station transformed from “luxury” units to apartments eligible for Section 8 rental vouchers.

How did this once promising project go from a complex where all tenants hold down jobs to one where potentially as few as 36 percent of the potential tenants are gainfully employed, and finally, one where the project's actual completion is in doubt?

The search for a potentially critical beep-beep-beep to help locate an Alzheimer's patient

By Howard B. Owens
Aug 23, 2013, 10:47pm

If you saw Lt. David Morales walking down Main Street in Downtown Batavia this afternoon you might have wondered why a man in uniform with a badge and a gun was walking to-and-fro with a television antenna in his hand.

If you happened to be walking behind him as he

Publication ranks Genesee County as 4th fastest growing food processing region

By Howard B. Owens
Aug 26, 2013, 1:08pm

Press release:

For the fourth year in a row, Genesee County, New York has been recognized as one of the fastest growing Food Processing Industry Metros by Business Facilities, a national site selection publication.

The Agricultural and Food and Beverage Sector employs more than 1,500 workers in Genesee County, and