Delaware North Building

The Delaware North Building is a mixed-use development in Buffalo, New York. The 12-story, 330,000-square-foot mixed-use building features Class A office space, a 120-room Westin hotel, ground level retail, a 7,000-square-foot outdoor courtyard, and an adjacent structured parking ramp. Delaware North's World Headquarters anchors the building.^[2]

Delaware North Building
April 2016 photo
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office, commercial, hotel
Architectural style	Postmodern architecture
Location	250 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York, United States
Coordinates	42.891045°N 78.876980°W / 42.891045; -78.876980
Construction started	January, 2014
Topped-out	October 10, 2014[1]
Estimated completion	November 2015
Cost	US$ 117 million
Owner	Uniland Development co.
Height
Architectural	53 m (174 ft)
Roof	59.1 m (194 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	12
Floor area	332,000 sq ft (30,800 m2)
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Diamond Schmitt Architects
Developer	Uniland Development co.
Other information
Number of rooms	Hotel: 116 rooms
Parking	593 spaces
Website
Official website

Construction

The new building replaces the two-story Delaware Court building (1917–2014) at the northwest corner of Delaware Avenue and Chippewa Street^[3] and occupies a 1.95-acre site.^[1] The new building replicates the iconic curved façade of the old, using terracotta features of the original structure.^[4] The building features 193,000 sq ft of class A office space on the sixth through 12th floors, a 116-room hotel occupying 104,000 sq ft, 18,000 sq ft of retail space, and indoor parking for 593 vehicles in a five-level attached parking ramp.^[5] The building's 2,600-square-foot lobby features the largest living green wall in Western New York, a 22 ft × 21 ft expanse of plants providing beauty, improving indoor air quality, and reducing energy use.^[how?] In 2019, the building received a LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.^[6][7]

Operations

The Delaware North Building serves as headquarters for namesake company Delaware North, which also operates a 116-room Westin hotel and Patina 250 restaurant within the building.^[8] Other tenants include KeyBank offices and retail branch, UBS Financial Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Cullen Foundation, and Osteopathic Wellness Medicine.^[9]

External links

• Skyscraperpage building page
• Emporis building page^[usurped]
• Live camera feed of building
• 250 Delaware Avenue Property Page
• Time-lapse installation by Botanicus

Gallery

• 
  Previous building Delaware court building (2013 photo)
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  Under construction (2014)
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  Rear of building
• 
  Terracotta of 250 Delaware Ave
• 
  Night view from Chippewa st.

See also

• LECOM Harborcenter
• The Avant
• List of tallest buildings in Buffalo, New York