The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) is a medical center of health care, life sciences research and medical education institutions, co-located on in Buffalo, New York. The BNMC was founded in 2001 by a consortium (including the

University at Buffalo School of Medicine University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, also known as Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is a public medical school in the city of Buffalo, New York at the University at Buffalo. Founded in 1846, it is on ...

and

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). This project comprises one of the five "Strategic Investment Areas" that make up Buffalo, NY's Queen City Hub Plan, the city's strategic plan for urban redevelopment.

History

The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Inc. (BNMC, Inc.) is the umbrella organization created in 2001 by the institutions within the Medical Campus in Buffalo, New York. Since then, the campus has grown to over seven institutions, including

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and the

. The

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organization was created to foster conversation and collaboration among member institutions, their employees, and the community. It also coordinates activities related to sustainable planning, development and enhancement of the 120-acre space which includes working to create a distinct, innovative environment that provides opportunities for entrepreneurship and active and healthy living. The Medical Campus encompasses 6.5 million square feet of existing clinical, research, and support space today. There is more than two million square feet under construction totaling an investment of more than $750 million in private and public funding. Some 12,000 people work on the Medical Campus today, and that number is expected to rise to nearly 17,000 by 2017. On an annual basis, more than 1.5 million patients and visitors go through BNMC's doors. In January 2016,

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reported the Buffalo-Niagara region's unemployment in December 2015 was only 4.9 percent, the lowest level in nine years according to the

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. The low unemployment was attributed to large building projects such as

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and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus which fueled a hiring boom for construction workers with job growth running at an average pace of 1.6 percent which is more than double the rate of hiring during 2014 and nearly three times stronger than the employment gains during both 2012 and 2013. As of the beginning of February 2016, minority and women-owned businesses have been awarded more than $55 million in contracts for work on the UB Medical School building under construction on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Future

It is estimated that by 2017, combined with the initiatives of

and UB 2020, employment on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus could exceed 17,000, close to that of the

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plant in Lackawanna, NY before its closure. With the completion of John R. Oishei Children's Hospital and the

Jacobs School of Medicine University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, also known as Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is a public medical school in the city of Buffalo, New York at the University at Buffalo. Founded in 1846, it is o ...

, the next building planned for the campus is 33 High Street, an 11-story, 300,000 square foot building by Ciminelli Real Estate. A pedestrian bridge linking the Conventus office building with the

is scheduled to open in 2018. This bridge will provide the Medical Campus with coatless access to the Allen/Medical Campus station of the

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Campus institutions

* Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center *

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* Center for Hospice and Palliative Care *

Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute The Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) is an independent, not-for-profit, biomedical research facility located in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Its focus is on structural biology with a strong history in methods development ...

Kaleida Health John R. Oishei Children's Hospital (viewed from Ellicott Street in 2017) Kaleida Health, founded in 1998, is a not-for-profit healthcare network that manages five hospitals in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. Prior to the merger of ...

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* Upstate New York Transplant Services "Unyts" * Fruit Belt Neighborhood (Medical Park) * Allentown Neighborhood * City of Buffalo * County of Erie * 43 North *

Innovation Center Buffalo Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity ...

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Funders

Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Buffalo most commonly refers to: * Bubalina, including most "Old World" buffalo, such as water buffalo * Bison, including the American buffalo * Buffalo, New York Buffalo or buffaloes may also refer to: Animals * Bubalina, a subtribe of the t ...

* Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo *

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First Niagara First Niagara Bank was a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured regional bank, regional banking corporation headquartered in Buffalo (city), New York, Buffalo, New York. Its parent company, First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. was the 44th- ...

Independent Health Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

* John R. Oishei Foundation * National Grid *

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* NYSERDA *

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* U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration *

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* Margaret L. Wendt Foundation

Gallery

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Awards and recognition

*2013 - Chairman's Award for Innovation, National Grid – energizeBNMC Team *2012 - Outstanding Research/Science Park Award, Association of University Research Parks *2012 - Innovative Design Award, Global Workspace Association – Thomas R. Beecher Jr. Innovation Center *2012 - Outstanding Planning Award for Comprehensive Planning,

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Section of the

American Planning Association The American Planning Association (APA) is a professional organization representing the field of urban planning in the United States. APA was formed in 1978, when two separate professional planning organizations, the American Institute of Pla ...

– Four Neighborhoods, One Community *2012 - Americas Award,

Alliance to Save Energy The Alliance to Save Energy is a bipartisan, nonprofit coalition of business, government, environmental, and consumer groups based in Washington, D.C. The Alliance states that it advocates for "energy-efficiency policies that minimize costs to so ...

and the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance – BNMC Five-year Energy Innovation and Economic Development Plan *2012 - Meritorious Service Award, New York State Commercial Association of Realtors (NYSCAR) WNY Chapter – Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus team of Patrick J. Whalen and Matthew K. Enstice *2007 - Program of the Year Award, Northeastern Economic Developers Association – Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Economic Development Achievements Amongst Northeastern States

References

External links

*The Medical Campus is covered in the .
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