Ellicott Park Work Underway

Beautiful.

This looks amazing. The medical campus is going to be one of the best looking areas of the city

WOW!!!!

Why can't any of MAJOR streets get this kind of transformation?????? Main? Elmwood?....

Finally, a sidewalk to walk on by the CoE!

Looks good - its great to see that the medical campus is reaching out to some creative firms in NYC.

Awesome....didn't even know this was coming, no big announcement just shovels in the ground.

Looks great, maybe we can give the rest of the area to the BNMC to clean up. Mayor Brown is too concerned with getting his friends jobs and shaking down developers to be concerned about making real quality of life changes in Buffalo.

I am sure he'll be out there with his podium when it's all done though.

Finally work starting but should be worth the wait.

also it would be nice as well as cost saving to incorporate as many of the grown Linden trees in the area.

Good work! Reminds me of some pleasant public spaces in Knoxville, TN. Nice!

hopefully this can be just a starting point for other streetscape improvements. I always thought that it would be nice to remove a lane from court st and connect Niagara sq with Lafayette.

Soon there will be a bike-sharing program rolled out on the BNMC, which will be cool.

How about extending the park down Ellicott to the M&T parking lot where we could have a mini Millinium park (bury the parking with tunnels to main street) ...vendors, water feature/skating rink, sculptures, lighting designs, performing stage...

Looks good. But you know what I continue to question, over and over and over. Why is this region, its politicians and its agencies so fascinated with architecture, planning and engineering firms from out of the area. There are plenty of firms here who could have done that, there is nothing highly technical about it nor groundbreaking.

If we want to continue to grow this region's job base and technical sectors, the people making the decisions continue to think that what is happening everywhere else requires firms from everywhere else. The people working locally are just never given the opportunity to showcase their ideas because the governemtn decides what can be done and what is done. So when a project requires something new and not already here, they go outside for that when that can be had here? UB has all three disciplines and all most of students leave the region due to lack of jobs.

This is a job, I would be willing to bet, that Foit Albert was forced upon (n)architects or they knew through "back channels" that putting one of the mayor's favorite minority firms on the team would get them the job. As we've seen publically from the Cleveland developer suing the mayor, that's how the process works. And no, just because its a BNMC job doesn't mean the mayors office has no control. Any plan requiring any approval or permit must go through the Planning Department, which basically is told by the mayors office how approvals can be gained faster by hiring the right people, which BNMC gladly does in the name of expediency.

As for full disclosure, I do not and have not worked in any of these fields but I know people who do and the complaint/accusations are neither unreal nor unfounded.

This looks great.

Just make sure future development removes the parking lots lining it on the side. Being so thin, this park won't have nearly the aesthetic or atmospheric value if its bordered by barren asphalt. Looks like a great design for a reprieve from a dense urban environment. It just won't work right if we don't get that density around it.

I love how this looks. Why aren't we doing this on most of the main streets in the city? We have the space. Really, is this so difficult that we can't replicate it all over the city?

great design from these couple renderings. It will definitely bring the campus together and provide a reprieve for patients and residents alike. I can't wait to see this done! Buffalo's highline anyone?

This looks great. It reminds me of what we were promised when the idea of a pedestrian mall was proposed when they closed Main Street off to traffic. In my opinion, Buffalo Place was a failure largely because they paved it with ugly red-painted asphalt instead of doing something like this. Perhaps if the original vision became reality, we wouldn't now be talking about returning cars to Main Street.