‘Ghost town’ morphing into new business park

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – It is been lying dormant, blighted, and rusting for years, but starting this week, life has returned to the old Garden Village Plaza at the corner of Union and French Roads in Cheektowaga.
A demolition crew has been bustling at the old abandoned retail strip as the 26.7 acre lot prepares to morph into a new line of business in the area of Western New York known as South Cheektowaga.
At one time, as many as 20 retailers made their home in the old Garden Village P