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Sun+ Exclusive: The new owners of an Orchard Park business plaza intend to keep the plaza up and running for as long as they own it - and have already started work to spruce it up. A team that includes Brendan Biggane, owner of the Byrd House restaurant, purchased the Stovroff Plaza at 4164 N. Buffalo Road for more than $2 million on June 15. The Byrd House is part of the plaza, which is home to other businesses like the Village Smoke House. Biggane said that the plaza is welcoming two new tenants to fill the last two vacant spaces. All Is One Gifts Holistic Boutique & Services held its grand opening there on July 9. And Chase Fitness and Yoga is moving into the former space of Resolve Fitness, which closed in recent years. Biggane is a minority owner of the property - he declined to identify the majority owner. But he said that they've already started making on-site improvements since purchasing the property. In the long run, they hope to address longstanding infrastructure needs and potentially make aesthetic improvements. Biggane called the plaza "the heart of the Village" of Orchard Park. “It’s good to have both the owners as Orchard Park residents,” Biggane said. “We care very much about the way the plaza looks.” Biggane said the Byrd House has long been interested in having a seat in the table if the property ever changed hands. When the restaurant signed its lease there in 2015, former owner Joni Stovroff agreed to include a clause that would give the Byrd House right of first refusal if someone made an offer on the property. Stovroff, of Stovroff and Taylor Realtors, died in 2020. Her business partner, Jacque Taylor, decided it was time to part with the property. - By James Farrell, Sun editor |