Downtown Campus Illustrative Plan

Guiding Principle 1: Promote academic excellence, interdisciplinary inquiry, and vital intellectual communities.

 

Relocating the Academic Health Center schools to the Downtown Campus will bring greater academic strength and research capacity to the university through its alliances with neighboring institutions.

 

Co-locating the five AHC schools creates programmatic and functional synergies between the decanal units, and among UB and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus partners.

 

The spectrum of teaching, research, clinical, and translational programs will be fully represented in one medical campus.

 

 

Guiding Principle 2: Promote three distinct but seamlessly interconnected campuses to promote interaction.

 

Convenient and safe pedestrian routes to the NFTA transit stops on Main Street will encourage ridership and reduce parking demand.

 

UB will support work toward a “one-seat” ride from Downtown to South to North to ensure a unified university.

 

 

Guiding Principle 3: Be responsible to the larger community by shaping – and being shaped by – broader plans and policies.

 

Bringing the AHC schools downtown is estimated to bring 13,000 people to work, study and spend in the city, encouraging growth of commercial and retail space in downtown Buffalo.

 

An expanded medical campus will create job opportunities locally and within the region.

 

The need for housing and services will spur development opportunities on campus and off.

 

 

Guiding Principle 4: Provide long-term capital planning and promote prudent stewardship of university resources.

 

Services can be efficiently shared between UB and partner institutions, such as UB’s clinical and translational research center and UB biosciences incubator, developed jointly with Kaleida Health.

 

 

Guiding Principle 5: Establish UB as a leader of environmental stewardship and sustainable design.

 

The adaptive reuse of existing structures is inherently sustainable; UB is currently repurposing the former M. Wile Buildling for its Downtown Gateway.

 

Locating development close to public transit decreases vehicular traffic and parking demand.

 

 

Guiding Principle 6: Use the excellent design of campus architecture, landscape architecture and interiors to create great and memorable places contributing to a high quality of campus life.

 

An investment in landscape and hardscape design will raise the bar for Buffalo’s urban street life.

 

Buildings will be designed for the winter season by creating welcoming interior gathering spaces for the campus and the community.

 

The standard of architectural excellence, established by UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, will be continued with new developments.

 

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