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I wish they would have made it 20 stories and gotten rid of a few of the other court buildings....that are just god awful monstrosities.

Well the bright side can be seen in the picture. This should seal the fate of the Statler Hotel being redeveloped into a mixed use building. LOL, its lalmost like getting a twofer.

Like the building, don't like the site plan. Nothing like a big wall along the sidewalk to keep the public away to promote our freedom ideology. A wall that will probably just gather graffiti and scribbles as the new face to Niagara Square and our civic center.

Probably one of the most important new buildings architecturally built downtown in recent years. The previous parking lot was one of the biggest open wounds in downtown Buf.

City Hall, the Statler, Niagara Square etc will look great relected on the facade. A big farewell to the surface lot. A little more imagination for those walls would have been nice.

And it's nice to see there are now 20+ people recycling the same jokes. They got a little boring coming from the same 3-4 people. Thanks for instilling some freshness ;)

I think the building looks great and is a welcome update to the cities skyline as well as a good compliment to the other municipal buildings in Niagara Square. As for this "big wall" that everyone is complaining about, you guys should address you're complaints to the terrorists who attacked the federal building in Oklahoma City, the WTC and the Pentagon. The Federal Government has specific guidelines they follow when constructing their buildings now in light of those attacks.

sbrof - right on.

now if we can fix up the statler and get rid of the convention center..there might be some hope....for this section of downtown.

the convention center really has to go...infact the convention center is the perfect site for another 10 story office building....but Im glad to see this going up and I think the Court Street Tower is next? Any news on that?

Too bad you won't be able to see the building from the sidewalk, as anyone standing from that perspective will only see a 12-foot high blast wall.

It might look even better with some barbed wire and look-out towers along Delaware Avenue facade.

Did I miss something? Are the same people that constantly moan about surface parking lots plaguing the entire city upset about a new 12 story glass building? Like the design or not, I personally feel it will greatly enhance that area of downtown, which is already the densest area of the city in terms of high-rises. It gives an older historical area of the city that is full of lawyers and businessmen a new fresh feeling, something that Buffalo is lacking.

I think the design is neat, it's modern, but more importantly it's something new!

How many new buildings above 10 stories have been built in Buffalo in the last 30 years?

kinda looks like a ship thrown up onto land, I like the building but wish it didn't encroach on City Hall's dominance and balance.

It's simply appalling; ugly, and worst displays the arrogance of the interstate-interchange office park!

Just drove past it today. Driving south on Elmwood it is quite impressive. The finished project is going to go a long way towards Buffalonians feel a sense of progress. According to federal zoning, the building requires a "buffer." Therefore, there is nothing they could do about this whether it's a project in Buffalo, Charlotte or Atlanta.

is this thing even built to the curb....Olmstead would be rolling over in his grave....where is eric oak when you need him

This building does not fit in with our urban fabric....it needs to be knocked down. We need dark, weathered brick, turn of the century style.

Eric O where are you?

Thanks for the info, Sally.

So we're looking at roughly 1 highrise every 1.8-2 years or so. That's obviously not very much, but more important than flashy towers is a working infrastructure, a streetscape, but more important than all of those are jobs, and a reason for people to come downtown. So while this doesn't exactly provide many jobs, it's more of a flip flop, it does provide us with something new and interesting that people may actually go, hey that city doesn't look like it's still in 1975 and is deserted after 5 pm everytime they visit.

"how do they clean all those windows?"

"windex, dummy".