Planning Buffalo’s waterfront in 1969

By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo

The great thing about this 1969 map proposing a waterfront domed stadium… Is that it pretty much looks this way there now— if you squint, the proposed domed stadium looks like Key Bank Center and the proposed convention center looks like HarborPlace.

Also, thank God the West Side Arterial (on the left towards the top) wasn’t built.

In fact, thank God most of the proposed buildings listed here weren’t built. Number 10 is shown where Coca-Cola Field is… it wound up on the other side of number 9 and became the Hilton/Adam’s Mark.