The following list of reports has formed the base for The Queen City Hub. The plan has grown out of work implementing the Downtown Buffalo Strategic Plan produced by Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects PC, Wallace Roberts & Todd, Hammer Siler George Associates (1999) for the City of Buffalo. That plan is available on the web at www.downtownbuffalo2002.org. In April of 2002, a revised draft plan was issued for comment with an interim report. Results from the comment period were published in the Fall 2002 Downtown Buffalo 2002! newsletter. Additional comments were acquired through December from participants in the Implementation Council. Survey results from both a paper and web based survey on priorities and invitations for comment continued to inform The Queen City Hub through May of 2003.

American Institute of Architects. 2001. A Blueprint for Living in a Downtown: Buffalo R/UDAT (See www.buffalorudat.org).
American Institute of Architects. 2001. NYS Proposed Tax Exemption for Residential – Commercial Reuse.
Bergmann Associates. 2002. Route 33 – Kensington Expressway Safety Study Report for the Greater Buffalo Niagara Regional Transportation Council and the New York State Department of Transportation.
Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation. 1999. Byte Belt.
Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation. 2001. One-on-One Retention Program.
Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation. 2001. Extension of Empire Zone Credits to Residential Mixed Use.
Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation. 2001. Empire Zone.
Buffalo Niagara Partnership. 2001-2003. Buffalo Niagara Now Initiative.
Buffalo Place. Inc. 2002. Vacancy Analysis.
Buffalo Place Inc. 2001. Downtown Housing Marketing Packet.
Buffalo Place Inc. 2001. Downtown Buffalo Business and Employment Trends.
Buffalo Place Inc. City of Buffalo. Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council. Niagara Frontier Transportation Committee. 2001. Cars Sharing Main Street; a Staff Analysis.
Buffalo Place, Inc. 2001. 2000 Pedestrian Study.
Buffalo Place. Inc., Buffalo-Niagara Enterprise, the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation, City of Buffalo Office of Strategic Planning, County of Erie. 1999. The Retail Opportunity in Downtown, Buffalo NY.
Buffalo Place, Inc. 1998. Downtown Buffalo Business and Employment Trends.
CB Richard Ellis. 2000. Western New York Office Market Review.
Calumet Institute. 1999. The Strategic Plan for Downtown Buffalo: a response and critique.
Chan Krieger & Associates. 2002. Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Master Plan. (Prepared for the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus).
City of Buffalo. 2001. Inventory and Analysis of Office Space in the City of Buffalo Central Business District from 1982 through 2000. (Prepared by the Office of Strategic Planning).
City of Buffalo. 1998. Empowerment Zone Application. (Prepared with The Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo).
City of Buffalo. 2001. Acquisition and RFP for the 800 Block of Main Street.
City of Buffalo. 2002. 700 Block Urban Renewal Plan.
City of Buffalo and Buffalo Niagara Partnership. 2001. City of Buffalo Permitting Reform.
City of Buffalo Division of Traffic Engineering. 2001-2002. Street Circulation Revision Plans.
City of Buffalo, City of Lackawanna and Fannie Mae. 2002. Renewal Community Designation.
Erdman Anthony. 2000. Feasibility Study for Accommodating Motor Vehicles within the Pedestrian Mall on Main Street. (Prepared for Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council).
D.K. Shifflet & Associates Ltd. 2000. Top Line Overnight Leisure Travel Profile. (Prepared for Greater Buffalo Convention & Visitors Bureau).
Danter Company, The. 1998. A Downtown Multifamily Housing Analysis in the City of Buffalo, New York. (Prepared for Heart of the City Neighborhoods).
Dennison Associates. 2001. City of Buffalo Housing Study. (Prepared for City of Buffalo, Office of Strategic Planning).
Desman Associate with Economic Research Associates. 2000. Destination Downtown Buffalo 2002: A Roadmap for an Accessible Community.
Downtown Buffalo Parking Infrastructure Task Force. 2000. Destination Downtown Buffalo 2002: A Roadmap for an Accessible Community.
Downtown Buffalo 2002! 1999-2003. www.downtownbuffalo2002.org including:
- Downtown Buffalo 2002! 2000. Downtown Buffalo Strategic Plan Review.
- Downtown Buffalo 2002! 1999-2002. Downtown Buffalo 2002! Newsletters (three volumes, seven issues).
- Downtown Buffalo 2002! 2002. Buffalo Responds to the R/UDAT.
Duchscherer Oberst Design PC with Clough, Harbour & Associates, Edwards and Kelcey and Gruzen Samton. 1997. Buffalo Intermodal Transportation Center – Feasibility Study. (Prepared for City of Buffalo Department of Community Development).
Ecology and Environment, Inc. 2002. Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed New Buffalo Convention Center. (Prepared for Erie County Department of Environment and Planning).
Environmental Resource Management, with Erdman Anthony and KLD Associates. 2002. City of Buffalo Main Street Multi-Modal Access and Revitalization Project. Final EIS for City of Buffalo, NFTA, Erie County, Buffalo Place Inc. and New York State DOT.
Erie Canal Harbor Project. 2003. Supplemental Draft Environment Impact Statement Erie Canal Harbor Project Final Scoping Report.
Focused Marketing Associates. 2001. Taste of Buffalo Economic Impact Study. (Prepared for Taste of Buffalo).
Focused Marketing Associates. 1997, 2000. Thursday at the Square Marketing Study. (Prepared for Buffalo Place Inc.).
Greater Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau. 1997. Convention Center Feasibility Study.
Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council. 2001. 2025 Long Range Plan for Erie and Niagara County.
Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council and Buffalo Place Inc. 1998. 1998 Downtown Employee Survey.
Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects PC, Wallace Roberts & Todd, Hammer Siler George Associates. 1999. Strategic Plan for Downtown Buffalo. (Prepared for City of Buffalo Department of Community Development).
Hoyt, Sam, Assemblyman. 2001. Proposed Historic Tax Credit Legislation.
Jambhekar Strauss Architects PC (now part of Fox Fowle) with Flynn Battaglia Architects PC and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architecture PC. 1999. The Buffalo Inner Harbor Project Master Plan.
KPMG. 2002. Report to the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise: Buffalo Niagara Economic Development Agencies Performance Audit.
Jackson, Bruce interviewing Mark Mendell, 2001, Blue Dog Press, "Building Buffalo." 5: 42.
Militello, Jim. 2001. The Downtown Buffalo Office Market.
New Buffalo Convention Center Site Selection Study. 1998. Convention Center Site Selection Study. (Prepared for Erie County Department of Environment and Planning).
New York Department of State. 2003. Building Code of New York State, effective January 1.
New York State Energy Planning Board. 2001. New York State Draft Energy Plan.
New York State Energy Research Development Authority. Various dated. NYSERDA Promotional Materials.
Niagara Frontier Transportation Committee. 1997. Phase 2 Economic/Demographic Overview Study Final Report September 1997.
Parsons Brinckerhoff. 2001. NFTA Strategic Transit Assessment.
Pollack D., Linda. 1998. The Burchfield Quarter. Strategic Initiatives, LLC.
Shibley, Robert and Bradshaw Hovey, Ed; Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo. 2001. A Canal Conversation: A community forum on Buffalo’s Inner Harbor development and the Erie Canal, Kevin P. Gaughan Founder and Chairman published in collaboration with The National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Shibley, Robert and Bradshaw Hovey, Ed; Urban Design Project. 2001. A New Convention Center for Buffalo: Whether? Where? How? – A roundtable discussion sponsored by Working for Downtown.
Shibley, Robert and Bradshaw Hovey, Ed; Urban Design Project and the Waterfront Regeneration Trust. 2001. Re-Thinking the Niagara Frontier.
Shibley, Robert and Bradshaw Hovey, Ed: Urban Design Project, 2002. If Gambling Comes: The Location, Design and Management of Urban Casinos, 2002 – A rountable discussion sponsored by working for Downtown.
Simpson, Walter, Energy Officer, University at Buffalo. (2000). The University at Buffalo’s Green Computing Guide.
UB Green Office of University Facilities. 1999. Think Green: A UB guide to Campus Ecology. (Prepared for Think Green Campaign).
U.S. Green Building Council. 2000. Green Building Rating System Version 2.0.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2001. 2000 Census of Population.
U.S. Department of Transportation, UMTA. 1977. Buffalo Light Rail Rapid Transit Project, Project No. NY -03-0072.
Urban Design Project of The University at Buffalo and Buffalo Place Inc. 1993-2001. Downtown Buffalo Housing Sourcebook.
"Vision for Buffalo," Charles Gordon, Dean Gowen, Bill Greeley, Chris Guerra, Mark Mendell, Carl Paladino, Larry Quinn, and Harry Warren. 2001, unpublished but referenced in Blue Dog Press in an interview with Mark Mendell by Bruce Jackson.