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and the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, opened headquarters down- town. The foundation of the renaissance, of course, is that at one point Buffalo was a big city with an established culture, broad parkways, and an impressive inventory of prized ar- chitecture. For people like Tunkey – citing landmarks like the Richardson Olmstead Complex, and institutions like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery – there was a lot to return to. “It’s a beautiful city,” he says. A principal with CannonDesign , a global multidiscipline firm founded in Buffalo about 100 years ago, Tunkey finds himself in a good position. With so much going on there, the firm has been able to capture local work, as it recently did with the $112-million, eight-acre QueensLight redevel- opment of the former site of the Women & Children’s Hos- pital of Buffalo – a team proposal that beat out three others. The firm augments its Buffalo portfolio with work out of To- ronto, Montreal, and Boston. “A lot of cool stuff was going on in Buffalo. The economy was growing enough to give me opportunity.” With development ongoing across the full range of proj- ects – industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential – Cannon isn’t the only firm beefing up its backlog. Small, medium, and large firms are busy, and when the really big jobs come up for bid, the degree of difficulty only increases. “For larger projects, we see all the big East Coast competi- tors,” Tunkey says. New York-based HOK , for example, recently won the design contract for a 105,000-square-foot field house and event fa- cility for the University of Buffalo. You win some and you lose some, but if recent develop- ments are any indication, there’s plenty more in the offing for Buffalo. Douglas Development Corp., based in Washing- ton D.C., recently purchased the city’s tallest building, One Seneca Tower, for around $12 million. According to Buffalo Business First , the building could cost anywhere from $100 million to $200 million to renovate, plenty to support an as- sortment of A/E/P contracts. Douglass Development’s founder and president, Doug Je- mal, told the Buffalo press that he is likely interested in a mixed-use project, and that he will explore the possibility of using incentives from the public sector to help finance any improvements to the building. When and if an RFP/RFQ is issued, Cannon figures to be an interested party.

Douglas Development Corp. of Washington D.C. recently purchased One Seneca Tower, Buffalo’s tallest building.

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