Machinery, furniture and metal as well as other items have been looted from the building leaving it an unsecured empty shell to this day. In 1975 Concrete Central was abandoned as a derelict property. ![]() This area, riddled with mostly inactive but a few operational elevators, is known as Silo City.įollowing 1966, Concrete Central changed ownership multiple times but sat idle. The complex is easily viewable from the Red Jacket Park located at the foot of Smith Street or for kayakers in the Buffalo River. The complex sits on a remote parcel, with the only land access attainable via multiple railroad bridges from the northside of the complex and one railroad service road. No damage estimate was listed, and no injuries were reported. Buffalo Fire Arson Investigators were investigating possible arson at the complex. It took several hours but the fire was contained to small area of the roof and put out. Cotter (fireboat) to respond and extinguish the flames only. Due to the location of the grain elevator and no accessible roads to the complex, the Buffalo Fire Department requested Engine 20, the Edward M. On May 28, 2013, at roughly 1630 hrs the Buffalo Fire Department received multiple reports of smoke showing from the roof of the Concrete Central main elevator. The City of Buffalo removed nearly all stairs from the multiple staircases in the structure to secure the building from a similar tragedy. ![]() In 1976, a young boy was killed in a fall after climbing to the roof of the building. The elevator allowed crews to load and unload 20 railroad cars an hour, and three marine legs along the Buffalo River side could load and unload three massive lake freighters at one time. When in operation, it had the capacity to handle a total of 4.5 million US bushels (160,000 m 3) of grain. ![]() It is also the largest elevator ever built in the Buffalo area. Concrete Central stretches along the Buffalo River for almost a quarter of a mile and was the largest transfer elevator in the world at the time of its completion in 1917. The facility was utilized for grain storage until 1966. Due to its being the largest grain elevator in the world and concerns about German sabotage, Concrete Central's method of construction was top secret. 42★1′37″N 78★1′20″W / 42.86028°N 78.85556°W / 42.86028 -78.85556Ĭoncrete-Central Elevator is a historic grain elevator located on the Buffalo River at 175 Buffalo River (750 Ohio St.) Buffalo in Erie County, New York.Ĭoncrete Central was built between 19 at the height of World War I.
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