College March 28, 2010 9:30 AM

Construction Watch: D'Youville Academic Building

Construction Watch: D’Youville Academic Building

D'Youville College's new six-story, 88,000 square foot academic building is nearly complete.  It occupies the corner of Connecticut and Fargo streets, previously a college parking lot. The $23 million structure will house classrooms, laboratories, student service, faculty, and college operation offices, conference rooms, and facilities for a new pharmacy program.

Cannon Design is project architect.  The building features precast panels, brick, and cultured stone on the exterior. Savarino Construction Services is the general contractor.

The building will accommodate the increase in students the college has seen during the past decade. In addition to a growing student body of U.S. students, more than 800 Canadians out of approximately 3,000 enrolled students currently attend the private college.

D'Youville's School of Pharmacy is now accepting applications.  The first class of 65 students will matriculate in the fall of 2010.

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Nice looking addition. Blends well with the other buildings DYC has. I wish they would have done something better with the front that is aimed towards Connecticut st. The side facing their parking lot looks real nice. Just wish they would have done a similar look towards the st as well.

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Agree.

The side facing the back parking lot is nice
The side facing the street seems walled off.

Good height though.

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Yeah, that is some baloney that the words "back; facing the street" should ever be allowed on a project rendering.

But at least they didn't put the parking lot on the corner of Connecticut and Fargo!

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The Parking Lot! The story of modern Buffalo. Absolutely nothing else ever matters except parking. Great urbanism!

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Looks like a smaller, modern version of AM&A's.

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Which means what?

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Great project by D'Youville. It is tremendous to see a growing college investing in our community. Although worn, this is a beautiful West Side neighborhood, one that is beaming with potential for reactivation as a hip, ecletic quarter supported by its rich history. D'Youville has the single biggest impact on this area and could have an even bigger one by embracing policies that integrate itself with the community through outreach and good urban design.

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except for the problem that d'youville keeps demolishing the neighborhood's rich history and hip, eclectic reactivation potential for surface parking and is always backed by a prominent "west side activist" who should know better.

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That was exactly what I was alluding to grad94. D'Youville has mitigated many of the potential positive effects its investments could of had on this neighborhood through their campus land use policies. Instead of emphasizing seamless integration with the neighborhood, which would benefit both them and the neighborhood itself, they have built physical barriers between such through demolitions and a sense of 'withdraw'.

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Could have had.

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If one followed Porter Avenue to the Niagara River, then you would find the Ward Pumping Museum, the Yacht Club, the Westside Rowing club and LaSalle Park.

You would also find empty city blocks and land largely empty. City blocks running along Porter between Dar, between the Niagara Expressway, between 4th, 5th etc are near empty.

Nearly all of Centennial Village should be made available. There are plenty of places in Buffalo which would benefit from Centennial Village being relocated there so D'Youville could expand.

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It is reminiscent of the AM&A's building downtown... Long bands of windows, top floor more open... the way the windows stop on the side and the facade changes.

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And. So ... ?

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It would make a better, kinder county jail building. Sadly missed opportunity to make something of a big site.

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