The African Heritage Food Cooperative (AHFC) is planning to open a Buffalo location at 238 Carlton Street next year. We’re now getting a look at what the new facility will look like. The co-op will reuse the 3,838 sq. ft. historic building and add a greenhouse to it.
The African Heritage Food Cooperative was founded in 2016 by Alexander J. Wright, who organized a meeting of like-minded members of the community wishing to provide fresh produce to the areas of the city considered to be a food desert.
The co-op has a grocery store on Highland Avenue in Niagara Falls and community gardens in both Niagara Falls and Buffalo. The co-op sources its produce from several local farms and has purchased a 22-acre farm in Franklinville.
Plans for the Carlton Street location gelled in 2019 was an anonymous donor purchased the fire-damaged structure and donated it to the co-op. With assistance from Preservation Buffalo Niagara, the building’s roof was repaired, and the structure was stabilized in 2019.
AHFC will be holding a project update meeting with its members soon and will begin construction work this year. The facility is expected to open in August 2023.
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