Business HOF reference from Buffalo:
https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/...oles-1929.html
WNY Business Hall of Fame: Robert Coles (1929-)
A new group of seven historic figures — including Robert Coles — has been selected for the Western New York Business Hall of Fame.
The new honorees will be inducted at a Nov. 1 ceremony at the Buffalo History Museum. Profiles of all seven are being posted this week on Business First’s website.
The total membership of the Business Hall of Fame is now 22, including the 15 inaugural honorees who were inducted in November 2017. The museum hosts the Western New York Business Hall of Fame as a permanent exhibit.
Founding sponsors of the Hall of Fame are Evans Bank, Freed Maxick CPAs, Hodgson Russ LLP, Walsh Duffield Cos. Inc., the Buffalo History Museum and Buffalo Business First.
Here is a quick look at Robert Coles:
CLAIM TO FAME
Architect and activist; winner of national architecture awards; advocate of UB downtown campus.
KEY FACTS
Born: Aug. 24, 1929, Buffalo
College: Hampton Institute, University of Minnesota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Span in Western New York: Lifetime
Current age: 89
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1963: Established an architecture firm in Buffalo: Robert Traynham Coles, Architect, P.C.
1966: Elected chairman of the Committee for an Urban University, advocating a downtown campus for the University at Buffalo.
1972: Founded the Community Planning Assistance Center of Western New York, a design center for community groups.
1979: Completed the design of the Alumni Arena complex at UB’s Amherst campus. Construction wrapped up in 1985.
1981: Presented the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award by the American Institute of Architects for contributions to U.S. architecture and social justice.
2011: The modernist home he designed for his family on Humboldt Parkway was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
RELEVANT STAT
$30.9 million: Construction costs for the Alumni Arena complex, which was designed by Coles.
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