New ramp to more than double spaces at existing garage

The city of Buffalo and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) have reached an agreement on a lease permitting construction of a new parking ramp on the current site of the Ellicott Goodrich Garage to serve patients, visitors and employees of the medical campus.

The existing garage, which has space for 900 vehicles, will be demolished and replaced with a new ramp that will accommodate 1,900 vehicles. It is located across Ellicott Street from UB’s Clinical and Translational Research Center.

A portion of the parking revenues from the ramp will be used to benefit the community near the campus.

Michael Cain, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, spoke at the press conference announcing the new ramp. Cain told those attending that with the opening next year of UB’s new medical school building on the downtown medical campus, a “critical component of our students, clinicians and patients’ experience is convenient access to these medical facilities.”

The larger parking facility “will undoubtedly contribute to a positive experience” for UB employees and patients, as well as BNMC employees, and reinforce the commitment of the university and its medical campus partners to creating a world-class academic health center that will advance medical education, life-saving research and quality patient care in the community, he said.