Governor Andrew M. Cuomo & Empire State Development put forth the Buffalo Skyway Corridor competition that challenged the nation's top urban designers, economists, planners and architects to reimagine the corridor - stretching four miles from downtown to Lackawanna - while also building on the investment and momentum that has transformed the city over the past eight years.
Our Team: Christian Calleri, Jeannine Muller, Min Soo Kang, Andrea De Carlo - Washington, D.C. was placed 3rd with our proposal “Queen City Harbor: Bringing Buffalo to the Water's Edge”.
This submission proposes a strategy that "capitalizes on this historic opportunity to remove the notorious 'Skyway' and extend the positive legacies of Buffalo's artistic, cultural and industrial past directly into an intelligent, beautiful and ennobling future. This vision depends on a robust program of dense infill neighborhoods on lands opened up or facilitated through a Skyway removal, involving mixed-use and residential development in and around the Q
