[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 17, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H6273]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         BUILDING A NEW BUFFALO

  (Mr. HIGGINS of New York asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, at the foot of Main Street in 
Buffalo lies the DL&W Terminal, a century-old, vacant historic landmark 
along the Buffalo River that once served as a bustling stop for 
passengers traveling by both ship and rail.
  A plan by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will 
transform this piece of western New York history into a destination 
that serves a Buffalo of today and tomorrow, creating a multimodal 
center for people traveling by rail, automobile, bikes, and boats.
  The DL&W Terminal is a project under consideration for a Federal 
grant through the United States Department of Transportation's Better 
Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development, otherwise known as the 
BUILD program.
  I stand today in support of the NFTA's grant application for the DL&W 
Terminal, which serves as a national model for financing of 
infrastructure investments delivering significant economic impact.
  Surrounded by Canalside, the Cobblestone District, downtown Buffalo, 
and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, development of the DL&W 
represents a transformative project building on the economic 
renaissance of the new Buffalo.

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