As one door closes, another opens.
Two more properties neighboring the new Buffalo Bills stadium are on sale for at least a million dollars and these have the potential for commercial development before the Town of Orchard Park makes any zoning changes in the area.
With SUNY Erie Community College looking to move out of its underused South Campus next door to the new $1.7 billion Buffalo Bills stadium in favor of a smaller site in the area, there may be an opportunity for developers to bring a major attraction, retail and housing or multifloor hotel to the area.
If there is interest, that is.
The college’s properties – if they were put up for sale – would join a number of properties just a stone’s throw away from where the new stadium is being built on Abbott Road in Orchard Park that are already on sale or could be in the near future, enticing developers to start a project at or around the stadium as it opens in 2026.
The ECC property is by far the biggest – 102 acres in all – potentially giving developers the chance to do something even more significant.
But there are still questions about whether that type of development will happen. There has been very little trickle-down development around the stadium since the Bills came to Orchard Park…
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