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Art center foes fail to bar museum project
By MATT GRYTA
News Staff Reporter
11/15/2006

Opponents of the new Burchfield-Penney Art Center failed Monday in their attempt to halt work on the new museum, on the grounds of the historic H.H. Richardson Complex.
State Supreme Court Justice Patrick H. NeMoyer refused a request by Campaign for Buffalo History, Architecture & Culture for a temporary restraining order that would have halted work on Buffalo State College's $32 million museum. Construction began in September.

Following a two-hour hearing, NeMoyer ruled against the organization's efforts to halt construction under provisions of state environmental law.

State attorneys argued that the college had taken the required "hard look" under state environmental law before declaring the project not harmful.

The museum is being built at Elmwood Avenue and Rockwell Road, across from Albright-Knox Art Gallery. It is targeted to open in 2008.