Lakeview Airport Gets New Owner
Why buy a four-bedroom house when you can have an entire airport for the same price?
A local neurosurgeon who leads the Brain & Spine Center is the new owner of the Hamburg Airport in Lakeview.
Dr. Michael K. Landi, through his Hamburg Airport Holdings LLC, paid $290,000 to acquire the 27-acre airport at 6765 Heltz Road, which includes the control tower, a landing strip, a runway, a hangar and an office building.
The small privately owned airport was owned by Charlotte Walsh and her family, through an estate. It mostly serves small planes like Cessnas, as well as helicopters.
It was started as the Lakeview Airport in 1945 by John S. Kwasniewski Sr. of Lackawanna and his brother, Sigmund.
"It’s an active airport, still existing, still operating," said Vito Picone, a broker at McGuire Development Co., who handled what he called a "complicated" deal. "He’s going to continue to run it as an airport, and get more tenants in there to fill up empty hangars."
Landi, a Chicago native and U.S. Navy veteran who has lived in Western New York since 1988 and graduated from University at Buffalo, is chief of neurological surgery at Kenmore Mercy Hospital and director of the Spine Center. He is also a clinical assistant professor neurosurgery at UB's Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
He started and leads Invision Health, which is a medical practice that includes the Brain & Spine Center and Spa 400 at 400 International Drive in Amherst, and Diagnostic Imaging Associates and Suburban Obstetrics & Gynecology at 100 College Parkway, also in Amherst.
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