BUFFALO LAKEFRONT DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Opus Group is a vertically integrated company offering services and expertise in real estate development, architecture, engineering, construction, property management, financing, leasing and sales. Founded in 1953, Opus has constructed more than 2,200 office, industrial, retail, institutional, multi-family and mixed-use projects across the country. Opus is currently ranked 14th in the Top 100 Design/Build firms in the United States by Engineering News-Record and is ranked #1 and #2 in industrial and office development respectively.

Located in Amherst, New York, Uniland Development Company is regarded as an industry leader in full-service development and asset management. Since its inception in 1974, Uniland has developed over eleven million square feet comprised of a variety of product types including office, industrial, retail, multi-family housing, academic, and community facilities. Uniland is a regular contributor to the Buffalo community.

VOA Associates Incorporated, founded in 1969, is a Chicago based firm offering comprehensive services embracing the disciplines of master planning, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and interior design. The firm’s diversified practice is international in scope and includes mixed-use urban developments, waterfront developments, residential, convention, and hotel and hospitality projects. VOA provided the planning and design expertise for Chicago’s Navy Pier.

Urban Retail Properties Company is a diversified real estate services company that provides cohesive and comprehensive property management, leasing, and development expertise. As the nation’s leading retail property management company, Urban oversees the management of more than 40 million square feet of enclosed regional malls, open-air lifestyle and community centers, and downtown mixed-use projects.

Buffalo based BIDCO is known as a leading underwater construction services provider in the Northeast United States. The Company’s strategic location, specialized assets and employee expertise, provides reliable, diversified, and cost effective underwater and marine construction services.

URBAN PLANNING CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES• Revenue: Create uses that strengthen the economic development of Buffalo and the surrounding region• Access: Improve access to the Outer Harbor from Downtown Buffalo and provide the public with a

variety year round uses• Destination: Combine world-class design with Buffalo’s unique character to create a destination that

instills pride among local residents and envy among visitors.

DESIGN

The Buffalo region is a unique confluence of land and water whose dramatic connections give character to this area. Buffalo is strongly influenced by its radiating pattern of streets, its park system and connecting boulevards. The Buffalo Lakefront is envisioned as a series of interconnected zones of residential, marina, mixed-use, regional conferencing, cultural, and sporting activities.

A combination of forms and scale lend great diversity that connects visually with and extends the boundaries of the Central Business District. The forms of the Festival Park, Town Center, and the Lakefront Park Residences will be symbolic of this great city by recalling its great tradition and providing a national model for future development.

The Buffalo Lakefront Development Team’s approach is to envision the Buffalo Lakefront Development as a large waterfront park, which serves as the natural extension of the Central Business District. A Marina, Residential, Commercial, Regional Convention, Sports, Entertainment and Cultural programs will inhabit this mixed-use development. The design is guided by the connecting open space, which finds a diversity of passive and active uses. In this manner the vision of a large Waterfront Park, as conceived by the great Fredrick Law Olmsted, is now realized with an active authentic sense of place.

The natural characteristics of the site have influenced the placement of program elements. The existing Seaway Pier at the north will be developed as a Marina, complimenting the Small Boat Harbor to the south of the project.

The Marina at Seaway Pier, featuring both seasonal and transient moorings, will be complimented by facilities such as showers, fuel station, changing rooms and clubhouse. Between the Marina and Bell Slip will be the site of the Lakefront Park Residences. A wide variety of housing types will be available, including townhouses, mid and high-rise rental/condominium units and residential units over retail. Located on a new interior canal system, the Lakefront Park Residences will be connected to the mixed-use commercial Town Center at the south end, adjacent to the Bell Slip. The Town Center will feature a grocer, retail shops, town plaza and residential mix complimenting the housing stock and creating a gathering place for the community.

The southern half of the site, between Bell Slip and the existing Terminal A building, will be a regional civic, sports and entertainment destination including the Buffalo Lakefront Convention Center, the Festival Sports Center, Festival Park, Festival Park Theater, the Convention Center Hotel & Winter Garden, the Festival Hotel & Water Park, and Festival Pavilion, which is the renovated Terminal A.

The three quarter of a billion dollar ($750,000,000) project will ultimately provide 380 Marina slips and 34,000 GSF (gross square feet) of Marina store, clubhouse and service buildings at Seaway Pier, 143 townhouses, 580 condominiums, 236 canal slips, a 30,000 GSF Town Center, 300 apartment units, and 53,000GSF of Commercial Office and Retail at the Lakefront Park Residences, a state-of-the-art Convention Center with 300,000 GSF of exhibition space, a 215,000 GSF Sports Center, a 3-500 room Convention Center Hotel and Wintergarden with 200,000 GSF of commercial Class A Office Space, a 4,500 seat Festival Park Theater, the 500,000 GSF Festival Pavilion (formerly Terminal A), and a 150 suites hotel and a 80,000 GSF indoor Waterpark and Aquarium. The Phasing will be accomplished in six (6) segments as the design, financing and approvals are completed and which is as follows:

• Public Improvements Q1 Year 1 – Q4 Year 2• Marina at Seaway Pier Q1 Year 1 – Q2 Year 3• Lakefront Park Residences Q3 Year 1 - Q1 Year 6• Convention Center, Convention Center Hotel & Wintergarden Q2 Year 1 – Q3 Year 7• Sports Center, Festival Park, Festival Pavilion Q4 Year 3 – Q2 Year 5• Hotel Water Park & Aquarium Q3 Year 4 – Q3 Year 6