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WHEATFIELD: New Office Location
December 1, 2008
Advanced Care Physical Therapy now has 2 locations! You can now recieve physical therapy services at our new office in Wheatfield, NY. Call (716) 282-2888 to schedule your appointment today!
NIAGARA FALLS: Making the move to Main Street
Published: December 20, 2006 10:38 pm
James Neiss/staff photographer Niagara Falls, NY - Dave Palivoda, left, and Dan Burns, both electricians with IBEW Local Union 237, work inside the future home of the Advanced Care Physical Therapy Aquatic & Fitness Center at 924 Main Street. Owner Craig Reinstein, a physical therapist, is renovating the old building and plans to open for business next year. |
Physical therapy complex is one of three new businesses opening on struggling street
By Denise Jewell
Niagara Gazette
Craig Reinstein saw potential in a vacant office building on Main Street.
The physical therapist had outgrown the Third Street location where he started Advanced Care Physical Therapy seven years ago. He looked at sites in the towns of Niagara and Wheatfield, but wanted to stay within the city’s limits.
After buying the former Labor Ready building near Main Street and Elmwood Avenue and spending nearly $1 million to renovate the 10,000-square-foot facility, he expects to open the site next year. When complete, the building will have a suite of medical offices, physical therapy space and a fitness center with a pool.
“I see a lot of growth,” Reinstein said of the Main Street neighborhood and its potential to draw clients to the area. “We can offer a lot of services for people from all over — Wheatfield, Youngstown, Grand Island.”
Reinstein is one of a handful of local entrepreneurs bringing new investment to a neighborhood struggling to rebound. At least three of the projects are moving forward with little or no public dollars.
Across the street, in a former house now painted periwinkle blue, Debora Krieger has opened an independent coffee house in a three-story building that once housed Cactus Jack’s restaurant. A block away, a local family is working through the approval process to open a soul food restaurant.
Construction workers, new paint and coming-soon signs sprouting up amid the vacant store fronts and deteriorating buildings on Main Street are signs of new life in a neighborhood left behind by shopping malls and superstores.
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