Facebook has been lit up as of late with complaints about the aesthetics of the parking ramp going up along S. Elmwood Avenue as part of Uniland Development’s 250 Delaware project. Nearby residents have also chimed in with fears that the ramp design has been sneakily changed.
It’s sad that, when so many good things are happening in Buffalo, in this era of ‘New Urbanism’, the Buffalo Green Code, etc, that this could be allowed to happen.
These developers get away with the rankest bait and switch. Shameful to have allowed this concrete bunker on Elmwood and across from Hutch Tech. We have no pride in our city. Just a lazy bragging right about old architecture then we allow this Dallas-type dross.
Really big missed opportunity there.
Very disappointing in that it faces one of Buffalo’s best high schools and is across the street from a National Register Historic District / The West Village.
That is some special kind of ugly so far. It’s going to take a lot of nonsense laid on top to hide any of that, if they even try.
Mr. Jacobs….Tear this ramp down!
But at least one note of reason:
They’re not done yet. Claws back in.
In response to our inquiry, Uniland passed along this rendering and asked for ‘patience.’
“What they see now are the bones of the ramp,” said a Uniland spokesperson adding the ramp will have screening in the form of terra cotta ‘battens’ that will connect to vertical reliefs. Plans still call for glass-enclosed retail space at the corner of S. Elmwood and W. Chippewa streets that remains available for lease.
There will be 593 parking spaces in the parking ramp and under the building. The ramp is quickly coming together as pre-cast sections are put in place piece-by-piece. The terra cotta screening is on its way.
Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects and local firm HHL Architects designed the 12-story, $110 million building that anchors the Delaware and Chippewa street corner.