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[TOUR] The Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project is a far-reaching economic development initiative set to remake a little known, historically mighty industrial strip along Northland Avenue adjacent to the Buffalo Belt Line. Kickstarted by Mayor Byron Brown and now a critical piece of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion, the Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project is part brownfield reclamation, part historic preservation project—overall, an initiative to re-spark the manufacturing sector of the East Side.

 

Peter Cammarata and Dave Stebbins, President and Vice President of the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation (BUDC), and Barbara Campagna, preservation architect for the Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project, will be your guides at the 35 acre project. Stops will include the Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Houde Engineering Complex and Factory, and Otis Elevator Company Foundry. These factory buildings were innovative for their time, built from 1910 and thereafter, and designed by architects such as Green & Wicks.

 

Construction is set to begin on the WNY Workforce Training Center, a $60 million facility to be built at the long-vacant Niagara Machine & Tool Company, 683 Northland Avenue. This will be the first phase in the build-out of the Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project, and the first stop on the walk. Prepare to be stunned by vast, sky-lit spaces and gantry crane hooks the size of an elephant.

 

Learn how this Belt Line industrial cluster helped shaped Buffalo in early 20th century, and how the new business park will attract high-quality employment opportunities, honor Buffalo’s industrial heritage, and help revive the adjacent residential neighborhood. This walk is your chance to experience the Northland Corridor in the “quiet before the storm”—only weeks before construction crews get to work.

 

Meet at Niagara Machine & Tool Works, 683 Northland Avenue, on Sunday, May 7, 11am. The first 50 participants will get a free Jane Jacobs pin!