The DL&W Terminal on the Buffalo River. A portion of KeyBank Center can be seen to the left.
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Sen. Charles Schumer, center, gestures during a news conference with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, second from right, and Mayor Byron Brown, right, and other dignitaries, including Rep. Brian Higgins (to Schumer's left) to announce the allocation of funds for several local infrastructure projects, Monday, March 14, 2022.
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In these renderings from 2019, planners envisioned an entrance to the DL&W at South Park Avenue and Illinois Street, along with a skybridge to the KeyBank Center parking garage.
Exactly three years ago, transit planners were forced to scrap grand plans for a skywalk linking the redeveloped Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Terminal to KeyBank Center across South Park Avenue.
The Buffalo Riverwalk near the DL&W Terminal, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Erie County Department of Health's mental health and substance abuse programs will get substantial funding, too.
The wait continues for Western New York commuters anticipating the proposed extension of Metro Rail to Amherst, even as the nation's new $1.2 trillion infrastructure package finances New York City megaprojects.
"I'm talking about a vision that could dramatically change the whole waterfront environment over the next 24 months to three years," Rep. Brian Higgins said.
"It's the largest infusion for infrastructure for Western New York certainly in 70 years and maybe even longer," said Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat who compared the effort to the construction of the interstate highway system starting in the 1950s.
Sen. Charles Schumer, center, gestures during a news conference with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, second from right, and Mayor Byron Brown, right, and other dignitaries, including Rep. Brian Higgins (to Schumer's left) to announce the allocation of funds for several local infrastructure projects, Monday, March 14, 2022.
In these renderings from 2019, planners envisioned an entrance to the DL&W at South Park Avenue and Illinois Street, along with a skybridge to the KeyBank Center parking garage.
