Tag: Bashar Issa


Road Show: Buffalo City Tower

In order to sell a concept, you have to be able to show off the concept 'properly'. We have seen renderings of the Buffalo City Tower, but how far do a couple of renderings go? That is why Bashar Issa decided to commission Cannon Design to build a 3-dimensional video that would showcase the Buffalo City Tower in realistic light.

What would The Tower look like as you approached it from street level? How would it feel to be able to walk into the grand lobby with the terra-cotta walls? What would an office layout resemble? How would The Tower function in relationship with neighboring buildings? And what would a view look like as seen from the upper floors of The Tower? These are the feelings that Bashar wants his potential clients to feel as he sells his vision to out-of-state companies. “As a matter of fact, the 3D-design was completed for one company in particular,” Bashar told me. "A prospect tenant that has expressed a serious interested in being THE anchor tenant. This company wou…


Statler Goes Online

BSC Group has a Statler website up with an appropriately titled banner: Past Glory and Future Promise. Like the building, the website is a work in progress. Details such as floorplans are not available as of yet, but you get a good sense of the building’s history, progress to date, and what the future holds for the Niagara Square landmark. It is truly a live-work-play development plan.

Some interesting Sunday browsing.


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