By the time the snow flies, one of the commuter landmarks along the Kensington Expressway may look very different.
Since 1980, the six empty buildings of the old Kensington Heights housing project have towered over the expressway, standing and rusting away. There have been periodic promises of change for the better, with the most recent change indictments of inspectors charged with not properly supervising asbestos removal.
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority Executive Director Dawn Sanders says all of that is the past and the plastic sheeting and netting surrounding the six buildings is a sign that work will get done. She says by early winter, two of the buildings will be demolished with all of the asbestos removed.
Sanders says the process takes time because the project is so complicated.
"Everybody I talk to this is a priority," Sanders said. "In terms of quality of life, in terms of overall city economic development."
Sanders says the delay on demolishing the other four buildings is that the BMHA doesn't have the $5 million to do the work.
