![]() The 9-million-dollar project headed by Schneider Development Services will feature a banquet facility, interactive retail space, over 20 apartments, and a 130-seat theater, to be the new home of Buffalo’s Second Generation Theatre. ![]() That place? As recently announced by Jake Schneider, the old Shea’s Seneca Theatre in the two-story brick building at the corner of 2178 Seneca and Cazenovia streets will be restored, rehabbed, and slightly repurposed. They will open their last show LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA in their current “rental” and are about to move into a new permanent home in an old place that was beloved of generations before. And so does Second Generation Theater it’s in their name. Not so here in Buffalo, a city of immigrants, where we take pride in the generations before us. In a developer’s-dream sun belt city such as Houston or Atlanta, the property values would have led to tear down and new build of… what? Something shiny, but probably with no link to any past glories. It saved many structures from the wrecking ball. A tour guide at the Frank Lloyd Wright Darwin Martin House, a jewel in the crown of Buffalo’s restoration projects, once observed that Buffalo’s lack of economic growth over the last half century had actually been a blessing.
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