Renovations of the Donovan Building or One Canalside in downtown Buffalo, NY are under way. Optima Design is doing the structural engineering for the project. A few weeks ago we captured some photographs of the bare structural steel.

Optima Design is proud to be the winner of a Brick by Brick Award for Best Historic Restoration/Renovation Project for 2012. The award was for our structural engineering and landscape design contributions to the Health and Sciences Charter School on Ellicott Street in Buffalo, NY. The annual Brick by Brick Awards Program recognizes finalists in seven categories of Real Estate, Construction, and Development in the Buffalo Niagara region. The Brick by Brick Awards are offered to Western New York’s most successful architects, engineers, developers, and contractors located in the Buffalo Niagara region.

Optima Design is excited to be involved in the design of a new 4 story hotel in Niagara Falls, NY. We are proud to help further development on the US side of Niagara Falls. “This is a great sign for the region because it is clear evidence that people are coming to Niagara Falls and Niagara County for various reasons,” said NCIDA board Chairman Henry Sloma to the Niagara Gazette. “Developers are making significant investments into creating new lodging stock in the region largely in part due to continuous growth of the Niagara Falls International Airport which is bringing tens of thousands of new visitors to our region.” The new Hampton Inn by Hilton will be located at 6501 Niagara Falls Blvd and construction is expected to start in September. Optima Design contributed civil site design, structural design, and landscape design to the project.

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