BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Sitting along Buffalo’s waterfront, Templeton Landing’s three-acre property will soon no longer be city-owned. When the land lease expires this fall, ownership is set to transfer to California-based Specialty Restaurants Corporation, according to Fillmore District Council Member Mitch Nowakowski, who represents the waterfront.

“This might surprise a lot of people,” Nowakowski said. “Somebody that lives in California or has a business in California will then own a large part of our waterfront development. As a district council member, it’s incredibly important for me to work with whoever this ultimately gets transferred to, per a 25-year-old court agreement.”

The agreement, made more than two decades ago, required the restaurant operators to pay taxes and maintain t

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