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Greater Buffalo BOMA introduces 2015 board of directors

The Greater Buffalo Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) introduced the 2015 board of directors at the Annual Business meeting held at Templeton Landing Restaurant. Over 60 BOMA members and colleagues attended. BOMA was honored to have guest speaker Erie County clerk Chris Jacobs discuss his "Concept Proposal: How to Make Buffalo's Distressed Neighborhoods Benefit from Downtown's Real Estate Boom." On February 18, BOMA Buffalo members will be touring the new HARBORCENTER, recently opened on the downtown Buffalo Webster Block, directly across from and connected to the First Niagara Center and the Erie Canal Harbor or "Canal Side." Shown (back row, left to right) are: Michael Lawler, Upstate New York Transplant Services; Kevin Hassen, Uniland Development Co.; Richard Serra, Allpro Parking, LLC; Michele Messina, McGuire Development Co.; Susan Heimiller, CBRE-Buffalo; Al Grabowski, Ciminelli Real Estate Corp.; Andrea Harvey, Parkland Professional Park, LLC; Paul Muck, LEED AP, Cushman & Wakefield; John Greene, RPA, Uniland Development Co. Shown (front row) are: Emily Delcamp, SERVPRO of The Southtowns and Jennifer Flood, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Missing from photo: Don Erb, BOMA Fellow, RPA, FMA, University at Buffalo and Michael Farrell, Constellation Energy.
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