TM Montante starts construction management firm

TM Montante Development the company tackling the conversion of the former Millard Fillmore Hospital complex is launching a construction management firm to handle not only its own development needs but a wide range of work for other clients.

The developer is starting Montante Construction as a full-service company to set and manage the schedules, budgets and full scope of building projects for its sister companies, TM Montante and Montante Solar.

It also will seek to manage construction jobs from third parties.

Currently, Montante is redeveloping the former E.M. Hager Planing Mill on Elm Street near Clinton Street in Buffalo once the home to Spaghetti Warehouse into a mixed-use building with 22 apartments and 10,000 square feet of office space, now occupied by C&S Companies.

It is also leading the redevelopment of the former hospital into a mixture of senior housing, townhomes, condos, apartments, retail space and a community facility.

TM Montante is also developer for the Riverview Solar Technology Park in Tonawanda, with support from its solar-energy affiliate, which was started several years ago.

In all, it has $85 million of projects in various stages of work.

Theyve always been kind of in the development picture, but their profile has seemed to grow recently, said spokesman Phil Pantano. The profile and depth of projects that theyve been taking on has grown.

The new entity will be led by President Douglas Elia, a local construction veteran who served as the key point person for LPCiminelli on several projects across the region, including the Conventus medical office building on Main Street at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Ciminelli Real Estate Corp. is the developer for that eight-story building, and LPCiminelli is the contractor.

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