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This is the model letter which may help you when you write your own. Something short and to the point. A few paragraphs should be sufficient.

Thanks,

David

Dear :

I am writing to ask you to participate in an exciting project in Buffalo - a project that will build affordable family housing, revitalize a community, create local jobs, stimulate small business development and bring national attention to the "creative class" in our city. Called the Artspace Buffalo Project, it will provide affordable housing and work space to low-income artists and their families, as it anchors the rich arts and cultural landscape in Buffalo.

A letter of support from you for this project is critical if Artspace Buffalo is to happen.

The Artspace Buffalo Project will provide:

• 60 affordable apartments with work spaces for low-income artists and their families.
• Hundreds of short-term and long-term local jobs, and a supportive environment for the creation of small businesses.
• The resources to preserve and re-use the Buffalo Electric Vehicle Building, located at 1219 Main Street at Northampton.
• An opportunity to link the multi-million dollar investment in the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Corridor to the revitalization of a depressed Eastside neighborhood.

Our partners in this project, ArtspaceUSA, have seen these results and more with each project they have developed.

We need you to partner with us in bringing this exciting project to Buffalo. Without an allocation of low-income housing tax credits, the project cannot move forward.

Please help by writing NYS Department of Housing and Community Renewal Commissioner Judith Calogero, 38-40 State Street, 6^th Floor South, Albany, NY 12207, and urge her to allocate low income housing tax credits to the Artspace Buffalo project.

So that we can include it with the Artspace application, your letter of support must be forwarded to Steven J. Weiss, Cannon Heyman & Weiss, LLP, 50 Fountain Plaza, Suite 301, Buffalo, New York 14202, Attention: Artspace; letters may be faxed to 716-856-2311 or e-mailed to sweiss@chwattys.com. They must be received no later than February 18, 2005.