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March 2008 > Mayor Announces Funding St. John Baptist Hospice Buffalo House Project Beth

Mayor Announces Funding St. John Baptist Hospice Buffalo House Project Bethel Head Start

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Office of the Mayor
Peter K. Cutler
Director of Communications
716-851-4841



Mayor Provides $425,000 for Two Projects Through Grow Buffalo Fund

Mayor Byron W. Brown today announced that the City of Buffalo will provide $300,000 to the St. John Baptist Hospice Buffalo House project and $125,000 to Bethel Head Start Day Care Center.  Funding for the projects comes from Mayor Brown’s Grow Buffalo Fund.

Mayor Brown established the Growth Buffalo Fund in the city’s 2007-08 Budget, which was announced on May 1, 2007.  The Grow Buffalo Fund was created to spur economic growth citywide through:

o Property acquisition and environmental remediation to create shovel ready development sites
o Creating incubators to establish emerging businesses
o Providing infrastructure improvements for City neighborhood revitalization, and
o Investing in cultural organizations that demonstrate economic growth and tourism potential, including projects in the Michigan  
   Avenue Cultural Corridor

“Both of these projects are key neighborhood development activities that will provide important services to area residents,” said Mayor Brown. “It is these type of projects that great value to city neighborhoods and help strengthen other ongoing and future development efforts.”

The St. John Baptist Hospice Buffalo House will provide increased access to and improve end-of-life services for residents of the city’s Fruit Belt neighborhood.  Emphasis of services will be on neighborhood and city residents. The precedent setting project is the first in the country where a hospice program (Hospice Buffalo) and a faith-based organization (St. John Baptist Church) have combined efforts to improve end-of-life care, as well as address the spiritual, end-of-life transitional needs of a minority community.  The $2.8 million program has received the endorsement of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization.

The Bethel Day Care Center is being designed as a newly constructed, single-story, multi-purpose facility that will have space to accommodate four Head Start classrooms and an extended day care classroom. The facility is expected to hire 20 new employees and emphasis will be given to hire neighborhood and city residents.  The program will provide space for 112 Head Start students, 20 child-care slots; it will be approximately 9,300 square feet in size.