The Gateway Lofts Project has received site plan approval by the Jamestown Planning Commission. The $77 million project to rehabilitate the former Chautauqua Hardware building on Water Street into 110 units of affordable housing is being done by … [Read more...]
[LISTEN] Community Matters – 2023 City of Jamestown Audit Presentation – March 13, 2025
Drescher and Malecki Partner Carl Widmer presented the results of the 2023 audit of City of Jamestown finances to Jamestown City Council on March 10. … [Read more...]
Jamestown Receives Clean Audit Report For 2023
The City of Jamestown received a clean report for the audit of 2023 finances. Drescher and Malecki Partner Carl Widmer presented the results of the audit to Jamestown City Council Monday night. The delay of the report on the audit of 2023 is … [Read more...]
City Looking At Reallocating $640,000 In HOME Funds Toward Gateway Lofts Project
The City of Jamestown is looking at reallocating $640,000 in HOME funds toward rehabilitating the Gateway Lofts Project site. The resolution would reallocate the monies from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from fiscal years … [Read more...]
Jamestown City Council To Consider Reallocating $640,000 HOME Funds To Gateway Lofts Project
Jamestown City Council will review a resolution to reallocate $640,000 in HOME program funds to the Gateway Lofts Project. The resolution would reallocate the monies from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from fiscal years 2020 … [Read more...]
Councilmembers Urge Public To Use ‘Common Sense’ When It Comes to Snow Covered Sidewalks
Jamestown City Council members are urging the public to use “common sense” when it comes to deciding whether to walk on the sidewalks or streets during the winter. Councilmember Bill Reynolds comments were spurred by an editorial in the … [Read more...]
City Council To Vote on Minnow Brook Culvert Project Engineering Consultant
Jamestown City Council will vote on an engineering contract for the Minnow Brook Culvert Rehabilitation Project. The resolution would enter into a $190,000 contract with Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. of Cheektowaga to do the engineering consulting … [Read more...]
Violent Crime Up, Fentanyl Seizures and Overdose Calls Significantly Down For 2024 in Jamestown
While service calls are down almost 10%, violent crime increased by 6.69% in 2024 in the City of Jamestown. The Jamestown Police Department stated in their annual report that there were seven homicides in the city last year, four of which have … [Read more...]
City, School District Discuss Guardrail Options For Persell Middle School
Costs to put a guardrail up by Persell Middle School could now be $27,000 to $30,000. City Council Public Safety Chair Jeff Russell shared that update at Council’s work session Monday night. He said Mayor Kim Ecklund and Acting Public Works … [Read more...]
City Council To Learn More About Proposed Local Preservation Ordinance
Jamestown City Council will hear a presentation on a proposed Local Preservation Ordinance tonight. The LPO was first presented to the Jamestown Planning Commission in June 2021 but no action has been taking by the Commission on the … [Read more...]
