Author: Buffalonian4life

One Canalside has added some nighttime pizzazz to the downtown skyline.  LED lighting was recently switched on at the eight-story building near the foot of Main Street.  It will complement the bridge and elevator lighting planned along the Buffalo River that will be lit up by the end of this year. http://youtu.be/Eem_cFbyEag Law firm Phillips Lytle occupies the building’s top four floors.  A 96-room Courtyard by Marriott opening in May will occupy the second through fourth floors and the ground floor will contain retail/restaurant space. Clark Construction Group, LLC, the nation’s largest privately-held construction company, was general contractor for the project…

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Yet another tower crane can be seen swinging its majestic steel arm around downtown.  Roswell Park Cancer Institute, one of the oldest and most successful cancer institutions in the country, is constructing a 142,000 sq. ft. Clinical Sciences Center at Carlton and Michigan. The 11 story, $40 million addition will allocate space for an expanded chemo clinic and a patient education/survivorship center, which will help serve the growing needs of Roswell Park’s 31,000 annual patients and their families.  The Clinical Sciences Center will create 200 construction jobs and 340 long-term, full-time jobs.  The project is expected to be completed by Fall 2015.…

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It was a full house last night at the Embassy Suites’ Encore Room where neighbors and others were given an overview of Uniland’s proposed 250 Delaware Avenue mixed-use project.  The 12-story, $80 million project is proposed for the site of the Delaware Court building at Delaware Avenue and W. Chippewa Street and will combine retail, hotel, and office space along with underground and structured parking.  It is being designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects and HHL Architects and will occupy a nearly two-acre site fronting Delaware, W. Chippewa and S. Elmwood Avenue. Uniland officials stressed that the rendering released is not…

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A tower crane has been erected at the heart of the burgeoning Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Looming over the surrounding cityscape, the crane represents ongoing progress on Ciminelli Real Estate Corporation’s new six-story $100 million, 300,000-square-foot medical office building dubbed “Conventus.” The building will house clinical, practical and medical research space creating over 100 new jobs for this ever-developing section of the Queen City. The building will also include two levels of underground parking along with some ground floor retail space. Women and Children’s Hospital outpatient surgery center and UBMD, a physicians group associated with the University at Buffalo, are anchoring…

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Memorial Day weekend has often been referred to as the unofficial kickoff to the Summer beach season in Western New York. Seated on one of the largest freshwater sources in the world, Buffalo can count miles of shoreline, but does not exhibit any sandy, swimmable beaches within the city limits.As initiatives to improve water and sediment quality slowly continue to advance, plans for swimmable beaches along Buffalo’s waterfront have come more and more into focus in recent years. However, there are several more barriers in the way of a Buffalo beachfront than water quality alone; literally.Countless break-walls and breakwaters line the Lake…

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Steel is rapidly rising on the edge of downtown Buffalo where Uniland Development Company is building Catholic Health a new administrative and training center. The $43 million project will house 700 employees in a six-story, 140,000 sq.ft. building. A two-level 700-space parking garage will round out the site.Last year, Catholic Health announced plans to consolidate its administrative operations into one facility. The site selected was a vacant parcel at Oak and Genesee streets at the base of the Kensington Expressway off-ramp. This parcel had been “shovel ready’ for decades. Now, the highly-visible location is finally seeing new life.

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Main Street in the Theater District is a bit messy these days. But by early fall, cars will be sharing the 600 block of Main Street between Chippewa and Tupper streets with light rail vehicles. The work extends the streetscape work that has already been completed on the 700 block of Main Street. Mark Cerrone, Inc. is the contractor for the $8 million project.

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Buffalo’s CanalSide district continues to evolve as multiple construction crews, cranes, and heavy equipment dot Lower Main Street and the Inner Harbor. Lieutenant Governor Duffy was on hand yesterday alongside several local leaders including Mayor Byron Brown for a groundbreaking ceremony held for the East Canal, the latest public improvement at Canalside. The $5 million park project that will connect Washington and Main streets sits between the $30 million One CanalSide development and Terry Pegula’s recently started $172 million HARBORcenter project. The park is expected to be completed late this year.

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The northwest corner of Delaware Avenue and Virginia Street is filling in. Scott Croce is developing a mixed-use building on the site of the demolished Cloister restaurant. Work to date has been focused on the Virginia Street wing of the building that will contain nine apartments. Medical office space will front Delaware Avenue. Croce, a chiropractor, plans to move his office to the first floor of the building. The Frizlen Group is project architect.

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