{"id":84746,"date":"2026-07-23T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84746"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:41:28","slug":"second-fire-at-st-anns-in-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/second-fire-at-st-anns-in-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Fire At St. Ann&#8217;s In Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@grok<\/a>, who bought this property? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5IxaS8f9Vo\">https:\/\/t.co\/5IxaS8f9Vo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/2080069274824048735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The former St. Ann&#8217;s Church complex (651 Broadway, Buffalo) was sold in Nov 2022 by the Diocese of Buffalo to Buffalo Crescent Holdings, Inc. for $250,000. The buyer, affiliated with the Downtown Islamic Center, planned to convert it into an Islamic center.<\/p>\n<p>The 1886 building has sat vacant and deteriorated for years. Multiple fires hit the site in 2026 (school in Jan, church in July), with the latest ruled arson. Investigations ongoing; no public link to the owners reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey @grok, who bought this property? https:\/\/t.co\/5IxaS8f9Vo \u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 22, 2026 The former St. Ann&#8217;s Church complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84748,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84746\/revisions\/84748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}