THATHURMANATOR
10-17-2007, 07:50 AM
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/185927.html
The University at Buffalo can’t change that it built a sprawling campus in Amherst instead of downtown, as some would have liked. But the school is making good on its word to expand its downtown presence.
UB President John B. Simpson announced Tuesday that the university will erect a new building along the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus with the help of $26 million in state funds.
“Make no mistake,” Simpson said during a community address Tuesday morning in Kleinhans Music Hall, “UB is committed to the growth and enhancement of all three of our campuses.”
The building will be the new home to UB’s Educational Opportunity Center, currently located in the 400 block of Washington Street.
It will be built at Ellicott and Goodell streets on a parking lot next to the former M. Wile building, which UB acquired last month to relocate several community outreach programs.
“I am very pleased by what I see of UB’s plans in downtown,” Mayor Byron W. Brown said after the address. “I think as [UB’s strategic plan] evolves, we will see more investment in the City of Buffalo.”
UB’s Educational Opportunity Center reaches out to the region’s disadvantaged population by providing educational job training, college preparation and related services to some 2,500 people a year.
The new building will cost about $30 million, said Simpson, who credited Assemblywoman Crystal D. Peoples, D-Buffalo, for securing $26 million of the funds.
The University at Buffalo can’t change that it built a sprawling campus in Amherst instead of downtown, as some would have liked. But the school is making good on its word to expand its downtown presence.
UB President John B. Simpson announced Tuesday that the university will erect a new building along the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus with the help of $26 million in state funds.
“Make no mistake,” Simpson said during a community address Tuesday morning in Kleinhans Music Hall, “UB is committed to the growth and enhancement of all three of our campuses.”
The building will be the new home to UB’s Educational Opportunity Center, currently located in the 400 block of Washington Street.
It will be built at Ellicott and Goodell streets on a parking lot next to the former M. Wile building, which UB acquired last month to relocate several community outreach programs.
“I am very pleased by what I see of UB’s plans in downtown,” Mayor Byron W. Brown said after the address. “I think as [UB’s strategic plan] evolves, we will see more investment in the City of Buffalo.”
UB’s Educational Opportunity Center reaches out to the region’s disadvantaged population by providing educational job training, college preparation and related services to some 2,500 people a year.
The new building will cost about $30 million, said Simpson, who credited Assemblywoman Crystal D. Peoples, D-Buffalo, for securing $26 million of the funds.