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The Vision - Downtown Builds on Decades of Progress
The Queen City Hub builds on decades of investment Downtown. The patterns of investment analyzed and published as part of plan development reveal core expenditures in the financial center on Main Street from Huron to Chippewa and investments from Chippewa to Tupper Street in the Theatre District. There has been significant development on almost all parcels in the past two decades. Two full blocks have been rebuilt in the heart of Downtown.
In addition, substantial new investments have occurred along Chippewa from Main to and across Elmwood Avenue adding an additional four blocks of significant improvement to the core. To this base the plan seeks to further establish "bookends" by building on the investments in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to the immediate north and on the waterfront to the south. Infill is designed to occur between the bookends with new investments in education, office structures, and mixeduse residential and retail developments.
The geography of The Queen City Hub builds on and fully respects the traditional boundary of the central business district. It also acknowledges that the base is small when compared to several peer cities. When it includes the strategic investment areas, it becomes more comparable to the CBDs of such cities and when it extends to the inner ring of neighborhoods, it surpasses them.
