A new parking ramp might be coming to downtown.
No decisions have been made about going forward with construction of a ramp, and multiple sites are being proposed, including a vacant surface parking lot at the corner of Court and Pearl streets that is partly owned by Ellicott Development Co. and part by the city.
That would put it across from the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, Main Place Mall and Tower and Buffalo Police Headquarters, and a block or two from Niagara Square and the Statler, which is being redeveloped by Douglas Jemal to include 450 new apartments and 200 hotel rooms.
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“There’s a need for parking down there, a significant need,” said Ellicott Chairman and founder Carl Paladino, who said such a proposal is in “the very early stages.”
The property at 30 Court St., between Pearl and Franklin, previously held a five-story commercial building constructed in 1908, which was occupied by Denton, Cottier & Daniels until the piano and keyboard store moved to Amherst in 1976. The building was then demolished, leaving the block empty for nearly 50 years.
“That’s been a site that’s been under conversation for decades,” said Brendan Mehaffy, the city’s economic development commissioner and executive director of the Office of Strategic Planning. “But it’s not the only site in downtown Buffalo that people are talking about. There are a lot of other sites that are in play as we look at the overall…
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