Introducing…"City Tower"

There it is! Looks like a transparent HSBC Tower from that angle to be honest with you.
But anyways, its 40 stories, becoming the tallest in Buffalo, with a mix of office, hotel, and condos. Issa apparently will start construction when 40% of the office space is filled.
There are two things that could happen as a result of this building
1. The building draws new tennants from outside of downtown…reaching NYC and Toronto companies…therefore adding new jobs to the area.
2. It completley kills the market for office space in Buffalo, leaving those pesky surface lots to remain for a generation to come

I like the building up close, its materials and initial floors remind me of the new World Bank building in Washington DC.

But in a way it looks like a cross between the Bank of America building that is being built in NYC, and the Erastus Corning Tower in Albany

Reflects the courhouse perfectly though.

This building represents the future of Buffalo…if it gets built, and succeeds, then the psyche of Buffalo can really start to change for the better

If it doesn’t get built then it’s a statement that nothing has changed in Buffalo and we’re doomed to our fate like we always have been.

Issa…don’t fuck up. This is huge. Like…4 super bowl losses-no goal-adelphia communications tower-crawdaddy tower-new peace bridge-UB downtown campus huge.

*Photos from BuffaloRising…always go to them for new development news before me.