Buffalo Niagara Waterkeepers: Citizen’s Vision for the Lakefront

Location
Buffalo, NY, USA
Year Completed
2007
Building Type
Planning
Size
N/A
Cost
N/A
Client
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper

The Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper selected HHL Architects to work with their organization on developing a strategy and vision for developing the inner and outer harbors along Buffalo’s lakefront.

The strategies were to preserve and enhance the best natural aspects of the inner and outer harbors while concentrating development in a controlled manner. The resulting vision for the waterfront provides public access to the water’s edge throughout, creates a great public park, develops a naturalized shoreline, and concentrates housing and mixed-use occupancies around the inner harbor and ship canal so that 75% of the available land can be developed for public recreation and natural habitats.