Mill Race Commons will be a handsome, newly constructed approximately 100,000 square foot, four-story building in the heart of the Larkin District, at the southwest corner of Exchange and Van Rensselaer Streets. The design and engineering represent a premier example of high-quality design and materials and will include digitally controlled building systems.

Mill Race Commons obtains its name from the historic Hydraulic neighborhood, the site of the earliest manufacturing district in the City of Buffalo. In 1827, with the completion of the Erie Canal, a millrace was constructed from Little Buffalo Creek along a route paralleling Seneca Street. The millrace flowed and was directed over a cascade into the Hamburg Canal, present day Exchange Street and at this water falls, an industrial area developed known as The Hydraulics.

With the construction of Mill Race Commons another chapter in the re-birth of this area will enhance the connections between the past and present Larkin District.