Medical Campus grows to more than 150 companies

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From the Buffalo News;

By Karen Robinson | July 7, 2017

Work on a pedestrian and bike path connector from Allen and Main streets leading into the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus gateway has begun. Contractor LPCiminelli has begun pouring decorative concrete on the path that will run underneath the University at Buffalo's new building for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

About 35 percent of the work is complete, with the project to be done by late August. "It's going to be very nice and definitely will be a highlight to the project," said LPCiminelli Vice President William J. Mahoney. Metal panels will be installed on the ceiling of the tunnel beneath the medical school, while granite will be added to the bottom of the passage's walls.

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From the Buffalo News;

By Jonathan D. Epstein | July 6, 2017

Uniland Development Co.'s new office and medical building in downtown Buffalo will soon be fully occupied. The Amherst-based developer completed the three-story building at the corner of Tupper and Ellicott streets in May, taking up one of three Frey the Wheelman properties that Uniland purchased in 2014.

The primary tenant of the 23,000-square-foot brick-facade building at 520 Ellicott will be DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., whose Bronx Dialysis Center affiliate will operate a $1.9 million, 13-station kidney dialysis clinic in the facility. DaVita – which will move into the building in the fall – operates more than 2,320 clinics nationwide, including nine in Western New York and five more under development.

Huron Consulting Group, a Chicago-based management consulting firm, has already taken up 5,500 square feet of office space on the building's third floor. The firm, which employs 50 in Buffalo, will add 20 jobs as part of the move and expansion from its former office at University at Buffalo's Gateway building at 77 Goodell St. Huron came to Buffalo with its $9.2 million acquisition of Buffalo technology startup Cloud62 in October 2015. Plans for the other two parcels that Uniland bought, across the street on Ellicott, are still being developed, the company said.

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From the Buffalo News with key points in bold;

By Karen Robinson | Published 7:10 a.m. July 19, 2017

One of Buffalo's most vocal historic preservationists is concerned about saving structures in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus neighborhood as development expands beyond the campus boundaries. Timothy Tielman, agitated by the demolition in late June of a manufacturing office building believed to be designed by architect E.B. Green, has heightened concern about other pockets of the campus where properties are being gobbled up by developers for new projects or housing.
"They're creating a suburban office park and 'clean up' the neighborhood through clearance," he said, likening his concern to what he said happened to the neighborhood surrounding the Cleveland Clinic.

He cited three key properties to save:

The Meidenbauer house/former doctor's practice on High Street that is owned by the city.

The remaining 19th century buildings at the Osmose site at Best and Ellicott streets linked to Green. BNMC owns the property that has been identified for a possible second incubator site on the campus.

The High Street corridor, a block east of the campus in the Fruit Belt neighborhood, which he says needs saving. "We need built up residential areas and contiguous retail and commercial spaces," he said. Included in that area is the dilapidated Meidenbauer residence, the Promiseland Missionary Baptist Church dating to 1875 at High and Mulberry streets, and the High Street Deli at Maple and High streets.

The 19th century cottage homes in the Fruit Belt are at risk because of development that creeps past the traditional campus boundary of Michigan Avenue, he said. "We're worried about them right now," Tielman said. "Although we see big, shiny buildings going up, they are an actual agent of residential decline."

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From the Buffalo News;

By Karen Robinson | Published July 17, 2017

The diagnosis of bladder cancer and innovations in treatment will be explored during A Day at the Park on July 29. The event will be in the Scott Bieler Clinical Sciences Center on the Roswell Park Cancer Institute campus. The program features Dr. Khurshid Guru, chair of urology and director of robotics at Roswell Park. He has performed more than 500 robotic surgeries to remove the bladder and is considered one of the most experienced bladder surgeons in the world.

Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States and is more likely to be diagnosed in men. Early diagnosis is key and paying attention to symptoms like blood in the urine. Roswell Park President and Chief Executive Officer Candace Johnson will speak at the event, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tours of the surgical suite and intensive care unit will be offered to patients, survivors and family members. Hands-on workshops also will be offered.

Registration information is available at https://www.roswellpark.org/day-at-park-bladder.
Those interested in attending should register by July 24.