Erie Canal Harbor Master Plan and Design
Buffalo, New York
Client: The Empire State Development Corporation
Budget: $12 million (Phase I)
$24.5 million (Phase 2)

The firm’s award winning master plan for the development of this 12 acre urban renewal parcel, located on Lake Erie at the historic terminus of the Erie-Barge Canal, features a waterfront esplanade, festival spaces, a new naval and military museum, docking for excursion vessels, and seven new development parcels. Mathews Nielsen designed a new Veteran’s Park and naval basin in Phase I. Phase II construction (complete 2007) uses interpretive design to reveal recent archaeological discoveries, illuminating the complex history of the canal slip.

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