Downtown

News about UB’s Downtown Campus and neighboring communities. (see all topics)

  • UB Outlines Role in Plans for a Complete Overhaul of Perry Choice Community
    1/20/12
    The Center for Urban Studies, a research and community development unit in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has joined itself to a massive effort: a proposal by the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority to restructure, redevelop and rehabilitate downtown Buffalo's seriously declining Commodore Perry neighborhood and turn it into the vibrant, sustainable community it once was.
  • Family Medicine, Millard Fillmore College Among UB Gateway's New Tenants
    1/18/12
    The University at Buffalo's downtown campus is growing. By early February, nearly 100 UB employees who had been based at various sites will have moved into new digs at the UB Gateway (the former M. Wile building) at Goodell Street. The historic structure is undergoing a $4 million renovation.
  • UB's Business with MWBE Construction Firms Tops $100M
    12/15/11
    At an age when most young girls are shopping at the mall or hanging out with friends, Sundra L. Ryce was learning the construction business.
  • Educational Opportunity Center Launches New Website
    11/1/11
    The University at Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) will hold a new website launch ceremony from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the sixth-floor auditorium of its facility at 465 Washington St. in downtown Buffalo.
  • Oishei Foundation Grant Expands Bioinformatics Hub at UB
    7/7/11
    A major grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation will help the University at Buffalo's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences expand its bioinformatics and computational biology expertise on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) downtown.
  • Dell, UB Announce Partnership to Create Institute for Healthcare Informatics
    9/23/10
    Michael Dell, president and CEO of Dell, announced today the company is making a $15 million investment in computer equipment and services to support launch of the University at Buffalo's new Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
  • Contingencies of Sale
    4/5/10
    The sale price for McCarley Gardens will be $15 million. The sale of the property is contingent upon HUD's approval and the completion of several conditions designed to assure that the needs and concerns of the residents of McCarley Gardens are met.
  • Oak-Michigan Housing Development Corporation Announces a Step Forward in the Vision for Buffalo's East Side
    4/5/10
    Rev. Michael Chapman, pastor of St. John Baptist Church and president of the Oak-Michigan Housing Development Corporation, a not-for-profit housing development corporation of St. John Baptist Church, today announced a step forward for a well-devised, systematic business plan to revitalize Buffalo's East Side, and the critical role of the University at Buffalo in achieving this goal.
  • Media Advisory: UB to Unveil Plans to Construct New Building Downtown
    5/21/09
    The University at Buffalo will announce plans to build a new home in downtown Buffalo for its Educational Opportunity Center at an unveiling to be held at 11 a.m. Friday (May 22) in the parking lot of the former M. Wile building at 77 Goodell St., Buffalo.
  • Planner to Study BNMC Infrastructure Changes
    4/5/07
    Samina Raja, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has been awarded a $105,000 contract from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to study physical activity levels among the 6,000 employees on the medical campus in relation to improvements made to its infrastructure and streetscape.