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We’re a social enterprise

• We’ve been operating a small group of not-for-profit and for-profit social enterprises since 2007
• We continue the neighborhood-based and community-focused work we started in 2007 (go here for a brief history)
• We acquire & sell reclaimed & surplus materials and contract for gutting, salvage and clean-outs
• We provide consultation services in the areas of demolition, reclamation, recycling and reuse
• We create living wage jobs in Buffalo
• We nurture job-readiness and job training programs in an area of extremely high unemployment, using paid, productive work to train and support younger people ages 17 to 30
• We grow & encourage economic development based on the reclaiming and reuse of materials otherwise “thrown away” in the landfill
• We provide quality building materials and other reused items at a fair price to homeowners, landlords, contractors, developers, artists and craftsmen

We operate a retail store, open to the public

• Located in the City of Buffalo at 980 Northampton Street, near Genesee
• www.reuseaction.com 716-894-3366
• Open Saturday and Sunday 9am to 4pm
• Closed Monday through Friday
• We take up two-thirds of a ca. 1922 factory building
• The building is called “The Guild @980”
• Located across the street from the Milk-Bone plant, America’s largest dog snack bakery, on Buffalo’s Historic Belt Line Railroad
• 30,000 square feet of indoor store and a big yard for outdoor materials.
• The third floor is being rented out to small businesses practicing the “restoration arts” – woodworking, metalworking, various kinds of repair, trades and craft

We provide comprehensive services

• We sell reclaimed & factory-second rigid foam insulation (PIC, EPS, XPS), lumber, barn wood, flooring and siding
• We sell house parts new and old – doors, windows, tubs & sinks, lighting, trim, flooring
• We sell art and antiques in our gallery space, unusual items, art materials, decor
• We also contract for green demolition, gutting, salvage, cleanouts & consult in the areas of reclamation, recycling & reuse.

Currently

• We have thousands of both old and like-new doors, factory returns and surplus
• We have a yard full of barn wood – hand-hewn and sawn beams, joists, siding and flooring.
• We have lots of foam insulation, reclaimed and surplus/factory second
• We have a growing inventory of old house parts
• We make and sell flooring, trim and molding and other value-added products, from our stock of reclaimed wood and from new wood
• Most “old house” and surplus items are priced at 35% to 65% of the prevailing local retail price for similar new products

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