Construction Watch: Medical Campus Mega Ramp

more parking, more cars on the streets!......excellent for Buffalo; the parking garage is high density and not the slummy crappy surface parking you see all over the city that breaks up the continuity of the cityscape. This huge parking structure( by Buffalo standards) will bring more synergy to the city as well when they bloody well open up Main st complete.; at least Buffalo is moving in the right direction now.

Another parking ramp, this one bringing "1800 much needed parking spots". So, 1800 cars currently cannot go there at all, yes? They just go back home?
More parking ramps ... Buffalo must be exploding with prosperity. Hurray. Now let's have another story condemning car drivers & claiming that one doesn't need a car in Buffalo.

I visit BGH and/or Roswell a couple of times a week for work and it is really tough finding parking. The ramp and surface lot are almost always full so I usually end up on the street a few blocks away. Thankfully I drive an old beater. If I had a nice car it would be a bigger problem. The ramp will definitely be welcome.

Some transparency along the sidewalk area would have been nice. The med campus probably wouldn't need as many parking spaces if they fostered a more pedestrian friendly environment.

More people does mean more parking. I do know the medical campus is looking in a bunch of different ways to reduce the parking on the campus. Great to see they gave another spot to buffalo car share

I really think this is a missed opportunity to incorporate some ground floor office and retail on the medical campus. I could see the location worjking very well for a coffee shop or small Dr. office. This is a great example of Buffalo just accepting what is proposed with no questions.

Ground floor office and retail...interesting, except when you consider the added cost of fire suppression, hvac, access and egress which all equals extra $$$.Plus as I look around downtown Buffalo, there is a considerable amount of vacant retail space readily available...why build more?

If one takes a look at the 4 neighborhoods/one community master plan it calls for retail opportunities along the Michigan High corridor in the Fruit Belt.

Why build a dry cleaning shop in the ramp only to take business away from the one's currently operating in the adjacent neighborhood, that is really neighborly isn't it???

A more transparent street level experience???Again if you has any "real life" experience building anything other than a blog post, you would realize the elevation change from sidewalk to first floor of ramp is above 4' thus requiring a barrier against a fall.

I guess in the "pixie dust world" the majority of the bloggers live in non one gets injured and no one ever gets sued,so logical safe building codes aren't neccesary.

Nice architecture with the faux windows and precast panels, it blends in well with the surrounding buildings.

It’s understood that additional parking spaces are needed, due to the deficit of them in the expanding Medical Campus.

However, the increasing concentration of several thousand, albeit, parked cars, within a few City blocks, raises concern that the there will be adverse impact (i.e., car pollution) on the air quality in the vicinity.

The Campus abuts neighborhoods. The space is not akin to many suburban parking sites which are in commercial areas or have ample vacant space around them.