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Imperial Textile buys AccuMed building

Published:August 15, 2009, 6:48 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 1:22 AM

A medical manufacturing facility in Buffalo, a couple of multi- tenant properties, a former cold storage facility in Cheektowaga, and a historic Linwood Avenue home-turned-executive conference center and day spa are among a handful of commercial parcels that changed hands in recent transactions.

AccuMed Technologies, a technology firm that developed and makes Breathe-O-Prene breathable fabric, sold one of its properties to Imperial Textile. The distributor of uniforms, linens and other textiles and supplies to restaurants, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals, dormitories and prisons paid $680,000 to buy the building at 150 Bud- Mil Drive, with 26,000 square feet.

Imperial Textile, an 11-year-old company that was founded by brothers Rick and Bill Puglisi, has grown to 30 employees and also offers in-house embroidery and printing. It also started a cut-and-sew division four years ago, and now makes table linen, table skirting, chair covers and display tablecloths. And it’s developed an Internet sales business with three Web sites that’s helping to fuel its growth.

It’s been renting space at 235 Elm St. downtown since it was launched, but has outgrown that facility, Rick Puglisi said.

AccuMed had long occupied both 150 and 160 Bud-Mil, but recently streamlined its manufacturing process, allowing it to reduce the space it required to the building at 160, with only 10,000 to 12,000 square feet of additional warehouse storage space needed, said Chief Financial Officer Bill McGowan.

Officials priced out their options and concluded it was cheaper to continue renting 160 Bud-Mil, which was “better suited” for its lean manufacturing process, and also use space at the former Bake Mark building down the street for storage, McGowan said.

By eliminating the building it owned, the company also now has flexibility to consolidate later into one larger building “if we land some of the business we have in the funnel,” he added.

In other deals:

In West Seneca, Bear Property Group LLC paid $630,000 to buy 1500 Union Road from 1500 Union Road LLC. Bear Property is registered with state records at the Union Road address, while the sellers are Richard and Julie A. Gicewicz of Orchard Park.

The property is home to several businesses, including building contractor and concrete firm Man O’Trees, Bear Development Group (no relation to Bear Property), the office of Erie County Legislator Timothy M. Wroblewski, and the Gustavus Adolphus Child social services organization. It used to have an Outback Steakhouse restaurant.

In the Elmwood Avenue area of Buffalo, Dr. Ashish Bhatia, a cardiologist and internist at Buffalo General Hospital, paid $422,000 to buy 341 Linwood Ave., a 6,420 square-foot mansion with an executive conference center, day spa and gym. The previous owner was listed simply as 341 Linwood LLC. Bhatia could not be reached for comment.

The building, which has been completely renovated and restored, has a grand foyer, reception area and boardroom on the first floor, offices on the second floor, and a spa on the third floor, with four treatment rooms, a waiting area and a yoga room. The gym is in the basement.

In all, it has six bedrooms, five half-bathrooms, three three-quarter bathrooms, a grand staircase, three fireplaces, and a new kitchen, according to marketing materials.

Also in the Southtowns, an entity called DBT Development LLC paid $525,000 to buy a property at the intersection of Southwestern Boulevard and Benzing Road from South Benzing Properties LLC. The seller is registered in state records at 5220 Camp Road in Hamburg, but could not be identified. The buyer is registered at 5540 Southwestern Boulevard, home to David Burke Construction and Burke Homes. Burke could not be reached for comment.

On Grand Island, the owner of the Grand Suites Motel & Plaza at 1725 Grand Island Boulevard sold the 23-room motel and a neighboring property at 1703 Grand Island Boulevard to Derek K. Ostrom of Lockport for $750,000. Neither Ostrom nor former owner Anthony Brindisi could be reached for comment.

In the Village of Williamsville, Patrick Anthony Inc. paid $300,000 to buy 5574 Main St. from Eugene P. Russ. The property is home to the Lov’n Clay paint-your-own-pottery studio, a salon and day spa, a home medical care service, and a law firm.

J-Tek Specialties, an appliance repair firm, bought the property at 55 Boxwood in Cheektowaga that it was renting from Thomas D. Herman. The flat, one-story building is a former cold storage facility.

Ronald H. Jewitt sold 2836 Pleasant Ave. in Hamburg to Sharma Development LLC for $250,000. That’s the home of Lindy’s Buxton Inn, a casual family restaurant housed in a historic Civil War-era building. The restaurant includes outdoor volleyball courts, an outdoor patio dining area and bar.

South Park Enterprises, a food service business at 4588 S. Park Avenue in Buffalo, paid $250,000 to buy 5035 Transit Road, from Sandra Bauerschmidt. Bauerschmidt owned furniture wholesaler E&B Equipment & Furniture and cabinetry and millwork contractor S&L Installations, both located at that address. The 5,000 square-foot industrial building, built in 1988, has 3,000 square feet of warehouse space and 2,000 square feet of office space.

Swan Unisex Salon, of 355 Somerville Avenue in Tonawanda, paid $220,000 to buy 2720 Eggert Road in Tonawanda, formerly the Applauzz Hair & Nail Studio, from owner Tamara Heidenreich Recckio.

Paul B. Iskalo’s Iskalo Development Corp. bought 14 Tremaine Ave. in Kenmore from Richard G. and Doris A. Weber, as part of Iskalo’s project to create a mixed-use medical office and retail building in the former Kane Doyle dealership in nearby Delaware Avenue, near Kenmore Avenue.

Plans call for a 21,000- square-foot, two-story building at 2780 Delaware Ave., with the facility and a surrounding Lshaped parking lot occupying the entire block. The developer bought the Tremaine property for $125,000 to “square off the parcel,” and it will likely be utilized for parking, said Iskalo spokesman Jonathan Gill.

Erie Commercial Properties LLC paid $120,000 in two transactions to buy a small office strip at 4017-4027 Bailey Ave. in Amherst. The property, including the O’Day’s School of Driving, was owned by the University of Buffalo Foundation Trust and the Gloria L. Biedenkopf Charitable Remainder trust.

Erie Commercial is registered at 4979 Harlem Road, Suite 2, which is home to business consulting firm Edinfocom and the Pakistani American Research & Information Center, both run by Faizan Haq.

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