City August 3, 2009 8:17 AM

Groundbreaking Today for Kaleida Health-UB Global Vascular Institute

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UB President John B. Simpson and Kaleida Health President and CEO James R. Kaskie will be present today for an official 11PM groundbreaking ceremony, marking the official beginning of the collaborative facility, which will include Kaleida Health's Global Vascular Institute, UB's Center for Clinical and Translational Research and a UB Biosciences Incubator on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Once complete, with a targeted date of late 2011, UB researchers and faculty, along with Kaleida Health physicians, will join in a united effort to deliver state-of-the-art patient care supported by new treatments and technologies. This collaboration will play a major role in transforming Western New York into a world-class health care destination as it expands UB's presence in downtown Buffalo.

See this Buffalo Rising story for more details on the building and a site map. The development is yet another facet of UB's 2020 Plan. Full UB story here.

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QueenCity

August 3, 2009 11:19 AM

Thats what 8 or 9 stories...thats good news for Buffalo. I thought it was going to be smaller...

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suburban_hillbilly

August 3, 2009 11:27 AM

Awesome. I love the BNMC.

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donnybagadonuts

August 3, 2009 12:14 PM

Cool speakers, Where do I plug my ipod in?

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SignWizard

August 3, 2009 12:19 PM

Love the progress don't get the design looks like a stack of old computers. Fits in with the Erie county building I guess.

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lastcall

August 3, 2009 12:22 PM

10 stories. It'll be a nice addition to the medical campus

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bydesign

August 3, 2009 12:57 PM

The building looks like nothing else in town - that I am aware of. I think that's a good thing.
Let's trust that the building's design fosters great function inside.

Also - where is ECMC in this equation? Or should I say Great Lakes Health?

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Buffalonian4life

August 3, 2009 1:06 PM

Now that's a rendering.

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davvid

August 3, 2009 1:18 PM

This is becoming a nice district where progressive design matches progressive research.

Do anyone know if progress is being made on the BNMC Ellicott Park?

Seen here: http://www.narchitects.com/frameset-BNMC.htm

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SignWizard

August 3, 2009 1:37 PM

I was talking about the Erie County Emergency Services building on Elm st. not ECMCC

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RPreskop

August 3, 2009 5:49 PM

This is going to be a very beautiful, modern medical building and a unique but modernist addition to the cityscape. It is great to see another major new project move from the planning and design phase to the implementation phase. This is another positive sign that Buffalo is getting better and coming out of its economic depression. We are not a boom town as of yet but Buffalo is steadily improving at a modest pace.

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z9icons

August 3, 2009 7:56 PM

"Here are the things the BNP is taking credit for:

Construction of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and creation of nearly 5,000 jobs in the life sciences

Sure. How are things progressing with the dissolution of ECMC as a public benefit corporation? Don’t mind me, just a taxpayer, just asking.

UB 2020 established as the regional priority for Albany action

Unfortunately, it’s a plan rooted in the dream that public money should be spent with no oversight. This is a plan? Why not just propose robbing Fort Knox? Both plots are illegal. Only difference is when the UB plan fails, the perpetrators won’t go to jail, they’ll just blame “politics as usual” for foiling their dubious scheme."

http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/31/open-letter-to-the-buffalo-niagara-partnership/

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NorthbfloJohn

August 3, 2009 8:17 PM

Any idea what is going to happen to Millard Fillmore after it closes????

Sit vacant for years????

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z9icons

August 3, 2009 9:34 PM

Maybe it can become a vacant lot, also known in Buffalo as shovel ready, like that highly touted luxury condo development on a nearby corner.

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5to81ALLDAY

August 4, 2009 9:55 AM

It's in the BRO archives but I can't seem to recover the link. It used to just show up the second link on google when you typed in "33 gates circle" two weeks ago.

Anyways, Construction on 33 Gates Circle was sadid to not start construction until 2010 and thats not going to change.

Uniland is developing it, and after the Avant, I guess they are the only developers you can beleive around here that will get things done.

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rpcolosi

August 4, 2009 10:04 AM

whats the word on the jacobs family donation for this? are they in or out? last i head they wanted more room for their vascular center and UB wasn't willing to give that to them. somewhat selfish i think considering the vascular center is private funds and would lead to direct patient care while UB's is publicly funded and for education (i'm a ub dental alumni). seems to me with UB getting the Trico Facility they could give up 1 floor of space to the vascular center in order to get Jacobs on board...

but hey - if they jacob's family wants to save the money and buy the bills, then I'm much happier with that!

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flyguy

August 4, 2009 11:33 AM

One again its great to see serious movement forward and more large scale development in the medical district, taking vision to reality. I still wonder when the big pharmaceutical companies will start bringing in the large private sector investments and establish private reserarch labs, etc? Any news on large scale private centers coming in? Can we expect a large pharma company to move in with a similar scale project at some point?

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whatever

August 4, 2009 12:37 PM

flyguy>"I still wonder when the big pharmaceutical companies will start bringing in the large private sector investments and establish private reserarch labs, etc? ...Can we expect a large pharma company to move in with a similar scale project at some point?"

It's anybody's guess whether or not "large" private sector investments will happen other than from Kaleida which is part of the private sector even though it's a nonprofit org and gets a lot of funding from the state govt. Nothing I saw in news reports about yesterday's groundbreaking quoted anybody even mentioning the possibility of large investments from other private sector co's such as pharms.

It sounds like BNMC is planned to be a collaboration among state govt-owned entities (UB and Roswell Park), a large nonprofit org (Kaleida), and some smaller nonprofits (Hauptman-Woodward and some others). It will also have a business incubator with office space and labs for startup co's, but it sounds like that's a small portion of the whole thing.

Re. Millard/Gates, I haven't heard any serious suggestions for a re-use of the building, so unless somebody thinks of one over the next couple years I'd be very surprised if most or all of it isn't demolished pretty soon after moving out in 2011. Hopefully they won't wait 10+ years as happened with the Aud.

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benfranklin

August 4, 2009 1:11 PM

Two things that go beyond BNMC are playing a roll here. One, the economy, no one is doing much new investment. Consider all the IPO money for 2009 is just 2.8 billion, vs. 60 billion in 2007. Second, for health care, it's difficult to gauge what will happen given the uncertainty around Obama's proposals. We'd all like to see what your asking about, but we'll need to pull out the recession, and have Obama not get the government involved in everything.

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flyguy

August 4, 2009 11:39 AM

Millard Gates? Well hopefully the property owner is diligent in ensuring something happens there, and soon. Otherwise I fear it gets unloaded, sits, starts to fall apart, roof caves in, broken windows, a huge decrepit eye sore on Gates Circle that will end up taking 3 or 4 times the cost to rehab due to lack of proper maintenance the 20+ years it sits vacant. In the meantime broken windows theory kicks in and starts dropping home values in the immediate vicinity, homeowners start unloading their properties to become rental units and things just progress downhill.

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biniszkiewicz

August 4, 2009 1:03 PM

^^That scenario is very unlikely. This is a very desirable piece of land. Someone will either demo the place or rehab it. One of the handful of big developers locally will probably acquire it and do something interesting. I think five years after closing we'll have an interesting new incarnation of something there.

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nick

August 4, 2009 1:42 PM

We know it won't be an out of town developer, City Hall won't allow that!

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jstraubinger

August 4, 2009 3:01 PM

I think it's reasonable to consider Canisius College as a potential buyer for part or all of the Gates Circle Millard. The college is already on West Delevan, Horton and Lafayette and there is some sort of arrangement/understanding between Canisius and the Hamlin Park Association that the college won't expand there.

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