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The Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project, in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion initiative and Mayor Byron Brown, will transform distressed land on Buffalo’s East Side into the future home of the Western New York Workforce Development Center and a neighboring shovel ready urban business park. Anchoring the 50-acre business park will be the $44 million dollar Western New York Workforce Development Center located at 683 Northland Avenue. Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, the City of Buffalo’s not-for-profit land reclamation and development agency, is overseeing the redevelopment process. BUDC was granted $6.7 million from the state to purchase approximately 35 acres of land and conduct site planning for the property. Together, BUDC and the state will invest in necessary site improvements and work to attract businesses in the critical growing sectors of advanced manufacturing and energy. The redevelopment of the site supports the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council’s smart growth strategy and will provide many local residents with future employment opportunities within walking distance of their homes. Understanding the needs and concerns of the project’s neighbors has guided, and will continue to guide, all related decision making. A participatory planning process was established in the spring of 2015 to ensure a meaningful and productive dialogue between the project’s partners and stakeholders. Follow the Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project’s page to stay informed about project events, updates, and general news. For more information on the project, visit BUDC’s website by clicking here: http://goo.gl/aAWizO A news release detailing the Western New York Workforce Development Center can be found here: https://goo.gl/SRlUHl
Operating as usual
Great new partners for the Northland Workforce Training Center.
With Buffalo and Western New York trying to crawl back from a pandemic-related economic shutdown, the Northland Workforce Training Center is announcing new
The second annual free and inclusive Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper ride launched from the Northland Beltline Campus. The ride featured the Scajaquada Creek and ended at Broderick Park.
We were blessed to have not one, but two nominees in the Adaptive Reuse category: 612 Northland, now the home of Albright-Knox Northland; and Phase 2 of 683 Northland, now the home of Buffalo Manufacturing Works and the future home of Retech Systems. Kudos to the teams that have helped Buffalo Urban Development Corporation make these projects happen, including Kathleen Kinan, B Thomas Mancuso and a host of contractors for 612 Northland; and Watts Architecture & Engineering, Barbara Campagna and Gilbane Building Company for Phase 2 of 683 Northland.
The Golden Brick award will go to 500 Pearl, the $70 million Buffalo Christian Center and newly constructed 110-room Aloft hotel by Marriott.
Our Part 3 for the historic preservation of the former Niagara Machine & Toolworks Factory at 683 Northland has been approved by the National Park Service. Great job in preparing this Part 3 and all of the work that led to this by our team led by Barbara Campagna and Watts Architecture & Engineering, especially Marie Carone and Rob Robert Sanders!
The historic Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory in Buffalo was converted into the Northland Workforce Training Center and light manufacturing in Buffalo, NY. Built from 1910-1981, the factory was rehabilitated using historic preservation tax credits, brownfield tax credits and New Market tax credits. The Part 3 was approved by the National Park Service in August, 2020. Prime Architect - Watts Architecture & Engineering; Historic Preservation Architect - BAC/Architecture + Planning, PLLC.
Thanks to ReddyBike and Independent Health for adding more transportation options to the Campus.
I was pleased to join Reddy Bikeshare, Independent Health and other partners in announcing the company’s expansion into the East and West sides of #Buffalo! Reddy Bikeshare is adding 11 new stations, including one at the Northland Workforce Training Center, and 40 new bicycles to its fleet. The expansion increases access to sustainable transportation in diverse areas of our City!
Welcome to Northland! #NorthlandProgress.
Reddy Bikeshare
Reddy Bikeshare expansion press conference happening right now at the Northland Workforce Training center! Watch for information about our west and east side expansion!
Later this year, Rodriguez Construction will move from Seneca Street in the Larkin District to the Northland Workforce Training Center at 683 Northland Ave.
“That is just one example of how Luis is really tuned into the community,” said Peter Cammarata, Buffalo Urban Development Corp. president. “You have to admire how Luis built up the company in a very entrepreneurial way.”
If not for a scheduling miscue in Las Vegas, Luis Rodriguez Jr.’s career path might have taken a different road.
Great news! Classes at Northland are resuming.
We have some BIG NEWS to share. We are excited to welcome our SUNY Erie students back to Northland on September 4th.
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A nice mention in Architectural Digest, from a book review of “Cool is Everywhere!”
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michel-arnaud-adaptive-reuse-projects
In a timely endeavor, photographer Michel Arnaud spotlights the redevelopment and growing popularity of postindustrial U.S. cities
BAC/Architecture + Planning, PLLC
Conducting one of the last tax credit site visits yesterday morning.
Helping families!
Helping families! I was proud to join Senator Tim Kennedy, FeedMore WNY, the Buffalo NAACP, Buffalo Police, Pastor Gillison and many others to distribute food to those in need today at Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Today, we helped feed over 1,000 families! I thank all of the volunteers and partner organizations for coming together to help others. We are truly are a City of Good Neighbors!
Thorough description of the history, rehabilitation and transformation of the Niagara Machine & Toolworks into Northland Central by our preservation architect; and why preservation is a sustainable development strategy.
Day 4 of BAC’s 9th anniversary week - discussing the complexities of construction in the time of corona with a site visit to take some photos. (See a couple photos in the comments)
Guess who’s back! Manna is reopening for take out on May 1st!
May 1st!!!!!! #open for #takeout😊
Welcome recognition for our innovative clean energy initiatives in the Northland Corridor!
New York's innovative clean energy concept in Buffalo's East Side can be replicated elsewhere, developers say
A Buffalo neighborhood is getting a new lease on life with the creation of an innovative clean energy hub.
The Buffalo Urban Development Corporation - BUDC, in partnership with Empire State Development, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the City of Buffalo, is redeveloping five industrial complexes across 35 acres into 5 MW of clean energy and battery storage that will include a microgrid system, a community solar project, and upgrades to an existing substation.
The Northland Corridor Redevelopment Project, located in the City's East Side neighborhood, also aims to redevelop the complexes--many of them vacant for a quarter of a century-- into employment opportunities for residents with the creation of a new manufacturing hub.
The Northland Corridor originally developed as a manufacturing center along the New York Central Belt Line, and is one of the most extensive industrial areas in the state.
Creating jobs and innovation
The project will be initially anchored by the Workforce Training Center (WTC), which will focus primarily on training for careers in the advanced manufacturing and energy sectors.
The project's substation, a plug and play system that can be expanded to 15 MW of clean energy and storage, will provide electricity to businesses located within the Northland Corridor.
The substation, which dates back to the early 20th century, will also be used to train people interested in the green energy and engineering fields as part of the WTC.
The WTC will be funded with USD 29m from the state's Buffalo Billion economic development initiative, along with USD 15m from NYPA.
In 2014, the Buffalo Billion Initiative awarded funding to acquire 50 acres of vacant or underutilized land and more than 700,000 square feet of industrial buildings in the Northland Corridor.
BUDC Board Member Dennis Elsenbeck, who serves as the Head of Energy & Sustainability at Phillips Lytle LLP, told NPM that the state has been on a mission to revitalize the area.
"Gov. Cuomo has been trying to bring these parts of Buffalo back to life," Elsenbeck said. "Northland is typical of many rust belt neighborhoods in that the collapse of industry leaves behind communities that relied on local industry for jobs, small business activities and all other support services. Our approach is to align community revitalization, climate-related objectives and workforce development with economic development to form sustainable economic and environmental solutions. From a community point of view, we can develop 100 percent load factor--whatever we produce there, we consume there. Think of the pressure it takes off of new infrastructure. It has this kind of cool ripple effect. It's more of a market-driven view.”
David Stebbins, Vice President of BUDC, told NPM that the first phase of the project will likely come online later this year, with the first two components to be capacity upgrades to the substation.
The project is expected to help the state meet its ambitious climate targets while creating a green energy economy in the region.
“We wanted to look at creative solutions,” Elsenbeck said. “For us we think the benefit is developing green manufacturing jobs, not only to help us achieve our Climate Act goals but also to develop an entirely new ecosystem so that we are competing at the global climate level. If we are not building manufacturing jobs in the green economy then we are simply paying others to do it for us. What I think we’re going to be producing are the very people who can implement the climate act from our local neighborhoods. This is a different kind of perspective. This is the kind of perspective that we think we can replicate anywhere, in any rust belt state because guess what? We all look the same. It's the same scenario."
#buffalony #NY #cleanenergy #renewableenergy #environment #sustainability #climate #greenenergy #gridscale #greeneconomy #news #newprojectmedia
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A great new partnership for our anchor tenant at Northland Central.
Northland Workforce Training Center is proud to announce a new partnership with Remedy, as our exclusive staffing placement provider. Remedy will be working with accomplished Northland graduates to place them in highly desired positions at top local companies. Remedy will be placing graduates from the following programs:
Welding Technology
Machine Tool Technology
Electrical Construction and Maintenance Electrician
Mechatronics
We are working with our first round of Northland graduates to assist this skilled group of candidates as they pursue careers in vital industries.
We are pleased to welcome Rodriguez Construction to the Northland Beltline community.
Less than three years after its debut, the anchor building within the Northland Beltline Campus on Buffalo’s East Side is nearly 100 percent leased.
We are excited to welcome another new tenant to our Northland community, and one that helped to renovate the building at Northland Central.
A minority-owned construction management and general contracting company will be leasing the third floor space at Northland Central on Bu...
Great careers in manufacturing!
Northland Workforce Training Center
Our CEO showing love for his home town Cincinnati during our staff paint night following our staff retreat! #WhoDey4Life #PaintingWithATwist
Congratulations to Northland Workforce Training Center for winning this Inclusivity and Diversity award. Well deserved. They work hard to ensure this with their staff, students and vendors.
Northland is the winner of Buffalo Business First Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Award(IDEA). Congratulations to our President & CEO as well as our amazing staff.
#TeamNorthland
Almost ready for our new tenant, Retech Systems, LLC. #NorthlandProgress!
Lots of great businesses to support, including Manna @ Northland!
Please support these great businesses!
Looking to the future!
A relic from Buffalo’s manufacturing past might take center stage as a training tool.
Dreams do come true!
Never in anyone’s wildest dreams, a mere ten years ago, could this Belt Line project have been realistically anticipated. Trends are looking up!
Grab some grub! It’s good for your soul.
East Side RISING!
East Side RISING! I joined partners in government, Northland neighborhood residents and other community stakeholders for the East Side Corridor Economic Development Fund Community Update at the Northland Workforce Training Center. Representatives from Empire State Development discussed some of the collaborative efforts in the works to invest in businesses, housing, people and infrastructure in every zip code on Buffalo’s East Side!
Planning for the future, today.
The agency that owns the advanced manufacturing campus on the East Side wants to create a community solar array and a microgrid electrical
Northland Beltline Redevelopment Project's cover photo
Plesh has been an anchor along the corridor for many years. They employ many residents of the neighborhood. This exchange will benefit both parties.
This allows the BUDC to gain property behind and next to its primary Northland building for parking and additional services for tenants, whi
Mayor Byron W. Brown
The #NorthlandProgress continues! I proudly announced that Retech Systems will lease nearly 49,000 square feet of space at 683 Northland Ave. The company produces high-tech titanium-melting furnaces, which are sold around the world! The company plans to hire as many as 80 people to work at Northland!
A great fit for the Northland Beltline Corridor. #NorthlandProgress!
Coming soon to the Northland campus: The return of the furnaces. But these will be advanced versions, clean and high-tech, and they're vi...
Company moving headquarters to Buffalo, adding 80 new jobs
A company called ReTech Systems LLC is going to move its headquarters from California to Buffalo's Northland Corridor.
We are very pleased to welcome Retech Systems to the Northland Beltline Corridor! #NorthlandProgress!
Retech Systems LLC leasing 48,000 square feet at the Northland complex.
Great paying jobs available with a little training. Check it out!
We have a lot of people that are aging out, said one recruiter. We need more young people. The question is, where to find them?
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