469 Franklin St · Allentown · Buffalo NY

A building where things get made.

An 1850 brick building — once Tony Sisti's gallery and studio, now a workshop, a free working room, and home base for a portfolio of hardware and software ventures.

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Fig. 1 — Section, not to scale Front: coworking · Back: workshop & studio

The place

One address. A few different doors.

Up front, the original brick rooms hold desks, screens, and coworking space. In back, Sisti's old painting studio — twenty-foot ceilings, a wall of north light, doors onto the courtyard — is where the bigger builds happen.

It all needs work. That's part of the point: this is a building being brought back by the people using it.

Front rooms — photo hangs here soon

The Sisti studio — photo hangs here soon

The courtyard — photo hangs here soon

Three doors

Join it, use it, or hire it.

The workshop

Build here

A hackerspace for electronics, hardware, and software. Benches, tools, and people who know how to use them. The price of admission is a project — and progress on it.

Buffalo Projects

Work alongside

A free, in-person working room. Bring a project, a question, or something you want to learn. No pitches, no paid funnel — your work stays yours.

BuffaloProjects.com →

Strelva

Hire the studio

The client arm. Websites, software, and AI tooling for Western New York businesses — built by the same people building everything else here.

Tony Sisti painted here. The Allentown Art Festival passes the front door every June. This building has always been a place where work got made in public.

We're keeping that going — just with soldering irons and git repos alongside the history.

Watch

The shop, live.

We're setting up cameras in the studio. When the stream is on, you'll see it here.

Stream placeholder — coming soon