The Project was originally home to Niagara Machine and Tool Works (NM&TW) that built stamping presses and press brakes for sheet metal. Its equipment was shipped to automobile and appliance manufacturers worldwide. NM&TW’s facility consists of three distinct contributing buildings related to specific functions of the manufacturing facility and the factory evolution: the Headquarters and Main Factory, built in multiple building campaigns from 1910-1981, the Pattern Shop, built in 1913, and the Metal Fabricating Plant, built in 1953. The Headquarters, the Main Factory, and the Pattern shop are what makeup Northland Central. The multiple building campaigns consist of a continuous series of irregular masses and volumes that were added as capacity, technology, and manufacturing needs were required. Depending on the time construction took place, the spaces vary in style and design from utilitarian industrial, ceremonial, and purely utilitarian. NM&TW was sold to a London-based international manufacturing company in 1992 and most of the company’s manufacturing activities ceased around 1999 and the buildings remained vacant.

Constructed between 1892 and 1893, the New York, Ontario & Western Railway Station stands as one of Middletown’s most significant historic landmarks. Designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by prominent railroad architect Bradford Lee Gilbert, the station served both as a passenger terminal and as the principal offices of the Ontario & Western Railway. Expansions in 1904 and 1920, designed by local architect David Canfield, reflected the railroad’s growth and introduced new architectural elements while preserving the building’s commanding presence.  

For more than six decades, the station played a central role in Middletown’s economic and civic life, anchoring the city’s connection to regional transportation networks. After passenger service ended in 1957, the building saw a series of adaptive uses before falling vacant following a fire in 2004. Despite years of deterioration, the station has retained its defining historic character and remains a powerful symbol of Middletown’s railroad heritage.

The redeveloped facility will provide larger classrooms with accessible bathrooms, space for disability services, adequate storage, private offices and meeting rooms, a separate parent area, a large-group training space, an indoor gross-motor space, and ADA-compliant access throughout. Outdoor improvements are anticipated to include three preschool environments: an accessible playground, an active playground, and an outdoor classroom with a tricycle track, art studio, and dramatic play stage.

NT Solar invested in the $12.8 million solar investment tax credits (ITCs) generated by the development of seven ground-mounted solar installations in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Lodestar Energy is an established northeast developer with more than 100 Megawatts (MW) in completed installations. The installations in New York are located in designated Opportunity Zones and Lodestar has been at the forefront of combining solar and OZ. The off-takers of the new installations will receive electricity cost savings and include public schools, towns, water treatment facilities, nonprofits, and community residential subscribers.

“We are excited to complete our fourth tax equity financing with NTCIC and are very proud of the work we’ve done as a team to bring new renewable electricity generation to local communities across the northeast.” Said Jack Funk, Managing Partner of Lodestar Energy.

The domed original headquarters of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank at 175 Broadway was designed by George B. Post and opened to the public in 1875. A renowned New York City architect, Post would later go on to design the New York Stock Exchange and Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion, the largest residence in the country when it was constructed.

Located at Broadway and Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this architectural marvel served the banking needs of its community for more than 100 years. The building’s exterior was protected by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The former Illinois Alcohol Company Building at 1432 Niagara Street in Buffalo was constructed in 1920 to serve as the Bison City Storage Company warehouse. However, the building’s design proved well suited for an illegal bootlegging ring led by the Illinois Alcohol Company during the Prohibition Era from 1925 to 1929. Taking advantage of the privacy provided by the building’s non-descript appearance, the Illinois Alcohol Company conducted an extensive bootlegging operation in the building for several years.

Once authorities discovered this illegal operation, the building was taken over and occupied by the Niagara Filter Corporation, continuing its affiliation with the brewing industry. This company initially produced non-alcoholic beer but switched to the production of brewing equipment when Prohibition laws were lifted in 1933. It remained in operation through the 1950s and was used for various purposes over the years before eventually falling into underutilization and disrepair.

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Located in the heart of the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City, the 12-story high-rise was originally constructed in 1912 to house the second location of Rabbi Sender Jarmulowsky’s banking business, who would come to be known as the “East Side J.P. Morgan.” Jarmulowsky was born in 1841 in Grajewo, Russia, now a part of Poland. At age three, he was orphaned and raised by the Rabbi of Werblow. Considered a prodigy, Jarmulowsky was sent to an elite Talmudic academy and emerged with rabbinical ordination. He married the daughter of a wealthy Polish merchant and, in 1868, moved his family to Hamburg, Germany, to start a small shipping and banking operation.

Anticipating mass Jewish migration from Eastern Europe as a result of the growing war, he shifted his company’s focus to help German and Eastern European Jews flee to the United States. He used business and familial connections to purchase steamship tickets at a steep discount, passing nearly all the savings on to his customers. After five years, he, too, brought his family to the United States.

In collaboration with partner New Energy Equity (an ALLETE company), a national solar developer and operator, NT Solar provided tax equity financing for $25.6 million solar investment tax credits generated by the development of five ground-mount solar installations in New York.

Installed in a variety of towns across New York State, the community solar installations enable subscribers to purchase a portion of the electricity produced, thereby lowering their monthly electricity costs without having to install solar panels on their homes or businesses.

The factory at 27 Chandler Street in Buffalo, New York, is a three-story factory building located within the Chandler Street Industrial Buildings Historic District. It was originally built in 1902 for the Jewett Refrigerator Company, which specialized in manufacturing home refrigerators and later in medical and industrial refrigerators. In 1929, the company sold the factory at 27 Chandler Street to the Buffalo Davenport Company, a mattress and upholstery manufacturer. The Buffalo Davenport Company remained in the factory until 1958, when the firm went bankrupt. Following this, the manufacturing space was owned by a number of short-term owners before being converted into warehouse space.

The building is a representative example of the light industry that developed in the Grant-Amherst neighborhood of Buffalo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of this industry developed near the New York Central Railroad Belt Line, a nineteen-mile loop of railroad tracks that had a significant impact on the development of many neighborhoods in Buffalo’s northern sections.