Putting Kenmore's best face forward
Nick Sinatra remembers the foot traffic along Delaware Avenue while he was growing up in the Village of Kenmore.
But during the years that he was away at college and launching his career, the face of one of Buffalo's oldest suburbs continued to age, now evidenced by vacant buildings and what one longtime merchant called "tired" facades.
Now, the 30-year-old Sinatra, from a family of well-known restaurateurs, is making a name for himself as an investor. And he's investing in Kenmore.
"There's a lot of history," Sinatra said recently, as he walked along Delaware Avenue. "I think with some tender loving care, this can really be a great strip again."
Sinatra & Company Real Estate paid $875,000 earlier this year for several Delaware Avenue properties. This week, the Kenmore Planning Board cleared Sinatra to begin a face-lift on 10 storefronts between Mang Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard, about a quarter-mile north of Kenmore Avenue.