Rich Products Communities | Rich Products Corporation. What “Family” Means for Our Community As a family-owned company with 8,000 associates across the globe, we reach beyond our own homes and offices and better the communities in which we live and work. Our main charitable focus, readying the “next generation,” aligns with our long-term heritage of multi-generational family ownership as well as the primary focus our organization places on the development of our own leaders and associates.
It includes two critical areas of external support: Preparing the next generation of leaders through support for formal education programs and initiatives, as well as opportunities that teach valuable “life lessons” Improving the health of the next generation through support for organizations that fight life threatening diseases or that work tirelessly to help feed those in need Rich’s tackling homelessness in Colorado: “Making Change with Change” program thriving More of the Story Bettering Our Communities Around The World: It’s A Family Affair at Rich’s.
Biohabitats Inc. Buffalo Niagara Partnership. Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER — BUDC - RiverBend. Click Here to view a brochure detailing the opportunities at RiverBend. RiverBend is located in the City of Buffalo, NY, on the site of the former Republic Steel and Donner Hanna Coke facilities in South Buffalo. The site is located within the South Buffalo Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA). The RiverBend Master Plan is a component of the Step 3 Implementation Strategy of the SBBOA. This plan lays out a land use and development strategy for the RiverBend site, a key element of the BOA that encompasses over 200 acres in the heart of the City of Buffalo. RiverBend Master Plan To view the RiverBend Master Plan please click above. RiverBend Drive Time and Demographics Click above to view a map with information about drive times to RiverBend and the demographics of surrounding communities.
Contacts. Buffalo Niagara Enterprise Economic Development. Western New York | Regional Economic Development Councils. HUD Sustainable Housing Communities. Governor Cuomo Presented with Buffalo Billion Investment Development Plan. Printer-friendly version Plan Will Help Guide State’s $1 billion Investment in Buffalo, Spur Billions in New Investment Governor and WNYREDC Announce Public Private Partnership with AMRI to Create 250 new jobs Albany, NY ( December 4, 2012 ) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today was presented with the Buffalo Billion Investment Development Plan by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council (WNYREDC). The Governor has committed an historic $1 billion investment in the Buffalo area economy to create thousands of jobs and spur billions in new investment and economic activity over several years. This $1 billion commitment to economic excellence in the Buffalo area has the potential to set a new growth trajectory for jobs and growth in the regional economy.
When Governor Cuomo made an unprecedented commitment of $1 billion to Buffalo, he asked the WNYREDC Co-Chairs Satish K. The WNYREDC has now finalized its plan and presented it to the Governor. Public Private Partnership with AMRI. Fillmore Corridor Neighborhood Coalition. EPA Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities | Smart Growth. This video from Housing & Community Solutions, Inc. (HCSI) describes how community members in the 26th Ward of St. Louis, MO worked with HCSI to apply for technical assistance through EPA's Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program. A walkability audit was conducted in the 26th Ward as part of this technical assistance. Background Many communities around the country are asking for tools to help them achieve their desired development goals, improve quality of life, and become more economically and environmentally sustainable. In response to this demand, EPA developed the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program.
Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities provides quick, targeted technical assistance to selected local and/or tribal governments using a variety of tools that have demonstrated results and widespread application. A tool includes: An agenda, presentations, or exercises that help facilitate discussion around a series of inputs and outputs. Top of page. The John R. Oishei Foundation. PUSH Buffalo. Green Development Zone. The weather’s gorgeous in Buffalo, and residents of the city’s West Side gather in the heart of the Green Development Zone to celebrate a great victory – the completion of Phase I of the Massachusetts Avenue Park. The Green Development Zone (GDZ) is PUSH Buffalo‘s internationally recognized effort to grow a new community economy in a 25-square block area of the city’s West Side. The foundations of the GDZ, like the roots of the tree on our homepage, rest on our core principles and the spectacular victories that West Side residents have won by organizing grassroots direct action campaigns.
Our principles and victories have allowed the tree to grow strong and branch out. We have built green and affordable housing in the Zone and have made new productive use of vacant land. That, in turn allows us to create quality local jobs. Purposes of this website: 2 ) To spread the word about the community economy PUSH is growing on Buffalo’s West Side The GDZ on Video Additional Information: The Queen City Hub. Buffalo is both the "city of no illusions" and the Queen City of the Great Lakes.
The Queen City Hub Regional Action Plan accepts the tension between these two assertions as it strives to achieve its practical ideals. The Queen City Hub: A Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo is the product of continuing concerted civic effort on the part of Buffalonians to improve the center of their city. The effort was led by the Office of Strategic Planning in the City of Buffalo, the planning staff at Buffalo Place Inc., and faculty and staff of the Urban Design Project in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.
The Queen City Hub is part of a broader emerging framework of planning that encompasses Downtown Buffalo's inner ring of neighborhoods, the whole City of Buffalo, and the region. It is a significant component of Queen City in the 21st Century: Buffalo's Comprehensive Plan. City of Buffalo. Economic Development - City of Buffalo. The mission of the City's Economic Development Division is to promote business investment and growth that leads to job creation and a prosperous Buffalo community.
Resources Businesses located in the City of Buffalo have resources available to them to help them succeed depending on their needs. Such tools include: Business Assistance Small Business Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Incentives Job Training Workforce Investment Board (WIB) International Trade World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara (WTCBN) Partners The Department coordinates efforts with a host of local, state, and federal partners to promote development in Buffalo, including: Buffalo Niagara Enterprise (BNE) - provides comprehensive economic development assistance to new and existing companies in the eight counties of Western New York, including everything from demographic information to tax incentives to site identification.
GO Buffalo. Buffalo Complete Streets. Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) - Metro. Colleges & Medical Centers. Daemen College. University at Buffalo South. UB is creating a state-of-the-art center for teaching, research and clinical care in downtown Buffalo, sparking a revitalization of New York State’s second-largest city. With funding from the Governor’s NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant program and other sources, including private philanthropy, UB plans to relocate the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo. The move will align UB medical education, research, and clinical care more effectively with regional hospitals and research partners. Most of our Downtown Campus buildings are located on or near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. They include the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and the new 10-story Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC)—built in partnership with Kaleida Health, the region’s largest hospital network—which also houses a UB Biosciences Incubator.
For more information: Campus buildings & maps. ECMC Medical Center. D'Youville College. Connecticut Street Armory. Canisius College. Medaille College. Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus | World-Class Medical Campus for Clinical Care, Research, Education & Entrepreneurship. Ellicott Park - Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Among the projects currently under construction is the creation of Ellicott Park, a significant enhancement to the main spine of the BNMC that will turn Ellicott Street into a linear park along the east side of the street. This 3,300’ park, designed by nArchitects, will extend all the way from Goodell to Best Streets and include forking paths, islands, and plazas.
It will also have banded concrete, illuminated benches, a diverse planting scheme, and signature lighting, running through the heart of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The design team also includes SCAPE Landscape, Tillett Lighting Design, and local architecture and engineering firm Foit Albert & Associates. Once completed, traffic will run two-way (it is currently one-way). Ellicott Park will create a unique environment while promoting a safe and walkable public space to be enjoyed by patients, visitors, students, neighbors, and employees. View renderings of the project by nArchitects. Construction Update on Ellicott Park. Four Neighborhoods, One Community - Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
As part of our ongoing efforts to continue the conversation about our shared community, the BNMC hosts forums for community leaders and business owners from the neighborhoods around the Medical Campus to get together. Please check back for more information or contact Ekua Mends-Aidoo at emends-aidoo@bnmc.org or 716.854.BNMC (2662). Since its inception, the BNMC has met regularly with neighborhood leaders, and in 2008 the BNMC, in partnership with the City of Buffalo and the Fruit Belt and Allentown neighborhoods, embarked on a planning process called Four Neighborhoods, One Community designed to capture previous planning efforts and empower community members to speak with one voice about the changes they would like to see in their neighborhoods. Four Neighborhoods, One Community includes three separate documents: In addition, the plan takes into account the connectivity to downtown Buffalo.
The BNMC and the City hosted four community forums in 2008 in both Allentown and the Fruit Belt. Allentown Final of Four Neighborhoods, One Community Strategic Plan by Tae Cerutti. Fruit Belt Portion of the Four Neighborhoods, One Community Strategic Plan by Tae Cerutti. Bnmc master plan update. SmartHomeBuffalo - Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. SmartHomeBuffalo News & Updates About | Floor Plan | Contributors | Events | Virtual Tour About A first of its kind, the National Grid/BNMC smart home buffalo is a renovation - and deep energy retrofit - of a turn of the century home within the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), located at 941-945 Washington Street. Symbolic of the thousands of such historic structures across Western New York, the smart home buffalo will serve as a living example of how the character and heritage of such homes can be maintained and celebrated - while making home energy improvements practical and tangible.
View the smart home buffalo fact sheet here . Floor Plans Renderings by Architectural Resources Contributors Events Virtual Tour Coming soon! Global Energy Institute - Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The independent, not-for-profit Global Energy Institute located at the BNMC , and the UB Power Center for Utility Explorations located at the University at Buffalo (which has research efforts and forthcoming facilities at BNMC), both comprehensively explore power and energy issues to develop innovative solutions to the complex challenges found in energy infrastructures such as electric, gas, and related transportation, water, and renewable power systems.
The PCUE and GEI teams will train the next generation of energy professionals including students in elementary schools, high schools, colleges, universities, and existing professionals through educational programs relevant to the growing needs of the evolving energy industry. While the GEI is focused upon applied efforts, the PCUE will focus upon academic research, teaching, and service.
The Global Energy Institute and some parts of the activities of the PCUE will be housed in the Thomas R. Innovation Center - Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The Thomas R. Beecher, Jr. Innovation Center, located at 640 Ellicott Street in downtown Buffalo, is a LEED-certified research and development space housing life sciences and biotech companies, as well as companies offering support services like IP attorneys, talent acquisition, sales, and marketing.
The growing space is designed to accommodate small to medium companies seeking office, wet lab and/or research space, on a month-to-month basis or via longer term leases, located in the heart of the thriving Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. In addition to traditional lease space, the Suites at the Innovation Center offer physical and virtual office space on a month-to-month basis. A collaborative work environment for companies of all sizes, this LEED-certified building – a successful example of adaptive reuse – features solar panels on the roof, installed through a grant from NYSERDA. Current Tenant List Click here to view a list of current Innovation Center tenants. Funding Features Location. One Region Forward: towards a more sustainable Buffalo Niagara. Olmsted Crescent Marketing Plan. Authored by The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy The Olmsted Cresent is a marketing collaborative designed to offer maximum promotional benefits to a range of cultural resources and institutions in Buffalo, New York, in exchange for a minimum investment from each contributing partner.
The ten Crescent partners include parks designed by the legendary Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Buffalo Zoo, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, and Shakespeare in Delaware Park – many of which are located near the parks, or offer programs there. The Olmsted Crescent – a name that gives the organizations an identifiable geographic identity – was conceived by Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy’s Executive Director, Deborah Trimble. Finalized in February 2001, the marketing plan below is aimed at three audiences: cultural tourists, Buffalo-area colleges and universitities, and a regional population interested in the arts. Table of Contents I. Market Situation II. III. IV.