Welcome to the DL&W

Buffalo’s Public Space

The DL&W project is a public market, gathering place, and entertainment venue set on the second floor of the historic train terminal and situated at the confluence of the Buffalo River, Erie Canal, and Niagara River, immediately adjacent to Canalside and KeyBank Center.

Here, food, culture, and experiences co-exist in an iconic building shuttered to the public for fifty years. With vendors, events, and everyday amenities, we’re designing the DL&W for how we live now.

This is a place created for Buffalo to meet up, eat well, and spend time together.

Interior of the DL&W terminal's proposed food hall with people dining, connecting with others, and walking.

Eat, explore, enjoy

  • Fresh food, groceries, products, and dining options from local chefs and artisans

  • Indoor and outdoor seating, public art, and year-round programming

  • Spaces to gather, walk, work, and unwind

  • A live music venue and special event space

  • A waterfront setting tied to trails, transit, and downtown destinations

Aerial view of Buffalo's waterfront showing the DL&W terminal.

A project with momentum

The DL&W is underway! Backed by years of planning, public outreach, and expert design, the project is led by Savarino DL&W Development LLC with support from the State of New York and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority.

Construction is in progress, and the DL&W is coming to life.

Pictured here, you can see that Buffalo's DL&W terminal once had a stunning Head House located to its west, but that was demolished in 1979.

A landmark reimagined

Located above the NFTA’s new Metro Rail passenger station, the new public market connects the city to its storied past and its bright future. It’s an everyday destination in a landmark setting — linking trails to transit and people to one another.

More than a place to shop or eat, the DL&W invites us to spend time together. This is Buffalo’s public space: open to everyone, ever-evolving, and easy to access and visit.

3D architectural diagram of a transportation station, highlighting pedestrian crossing, shoreline trail entrance, platform, station lobby, interior concourse, and east tower in color key. The diagram shows pathways, structures, and labels like Buffalo River and South Park Ave. The NFTA logo is in the bottom corner.

Making connections

The DL&W project is deeply tied to Buffalo’s movement: past, present, and future.

It sits atop the southern end of the expanding Metro Rail line, with connections via the transit system to Canalside and the Shoreline Trail, which is part of the larger Empire State Trail.

Tour the Terminal

Footage of the DL&W terminal from 2021.

 Meet Our Partners

 This project is made possible through collaboration between the public and private sectors. We thank our project partners for their support and leadership in bringing this project to life.

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Empire State Development logo with New York state outline on a teal background.
"Project for Public Spaces" logo in blue text with a line under "Public Spaces."
Plante Moran logo featuring stylized text with a blue underline.
Logo featuring a circle of various kitchen utensils and the text "Colicchio Consulting."
Red square logo with white text "eimer" above "architecture | interiors."
Logo of SB Clark Companies, a public finance consulting firm, with blue text and a border.
Logo of Cannon Heyman & Weiss, LLP with large letters CHW in multiple colors above the firm's name.
Green letters 'kta.' on a white background
Logo for Iron Works Buffalo with a blacksmith illustration and text reading 'Live Music.'
Logo of twenty6 productions with stylized text.