WCPerspective: May 2012 Archives

Three large building projects are complete at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.  The Gates Vascular Institute, HighPointe on Michigan and the new Multi-Modal Transportation Structure.  Construction costs for the three totaled $389 million. 

Gates Vascular Institute
Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo will officially open the $291 million Gates Vascular Institute/Clinical Translational Research Center at a ribbon-cutting ceremony later today. 

Benchmark Group's proposed infill project at 766 Elmwood Avenue is heading to the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday.   The three-story mixed-use building with retail space along Elmwood and 24 apartments on the upper floors would be built on a surface parking lot located between Globe Market and 7-11.  Karl Frizlen, project architect, says the new building will adhere to the Elmwood Village

Two thousand jobs could be headed to South Buffalo and the outer harbor area if a pair of projects come to fruition.  Buffalo Business First is reporting that local developer and businessman John Yurtchuk is working with local economic development officials to bring an unnamed company to the RiverBend site off of South Park Avenue and to also locate a Calspan transportation safety campus at the Lakeside Commerce Park.  Yurtchuk co-owns and is chairman of Calspan, currently headquartered on Genesee Street across from the airport.

Both projects would seem to be the type of investment

Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation has passed along a few more images of Benderson Development's Donovan Building makeover.  The former state office building was acquired by Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation in 2008.  Benderson was the only bidder that responded to a request for proposals to redevelop the property where construction is quickly progressing.

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Buffalo State College's new $110 million Science and Mathematics Complex is taking shape.  The new building designed by Cannon-- a 224,000 sq.ft. facility over three levels-- will be home to the Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences and Science Education, Mathematics, and Physics departments, the Great Lakes Center, and a state-of-the-art planetarium.

Phase I of the project seen here, scheduled for completion this summer, includes a 96,000 sq.ft. addition along the west side of the existing Science Building that will house new teaching and research

Preservation Buffalo Niagara is recognizing outstanding preservation projects and those contributing to preservation efforts at its annual awards ceremony May 30, 11:30 AM in the Statler's Golden Ballroom.  Award categories were established to acknowledge distinguished contributions to our community through preservation activity. Recipients will be recognized in several areas including: preservation craft; rehabilitation/adaptive use; stewardship; neighborhood conservation; planning/reconstruction; and preservation journalism.  Buffalo Rising will profile this year's winners leading

Big changes are coming to the intersection of Main and W. Ferry streets.  Developer Nick Sinatra's Sinatra & Company Realty is planning to invest $2.3 million in two historic buildings that will bring 31 market-rate apartments and retail space to the high profile corner.  Sinatra's properties are across the street from HOME's office and apartment project now nearing completion.

Sinatra has purchased over a dozen properties with over 200 apartments and 100,000 sq.ft. of commercial space in Buffalo and surrounding suburbs.