Safe Haven | Buffalo
Architect: BHNY Architects
Owner: Lakeshore Behavioral Health Inc. (now BestSelf)
Project Start: 2009
Project Completion: 2010
Budget: $1.4M
Buffalo’s 20,000-square-foot transitional housing facility, Homeless Safe Haven Residences, provides 16 single-occupancy rooms and shared living, dining, and bathing spaces. Funding came from the US Department of Housing, New York State Housing Assistance, and the John R. Oishei Foundation.
Savarino managed construction as the project’s general contractor.