2020 | April
Looking Forward
To us, the Larkin Center of Commerce has always meant community. For the last 10 years, together with our community of tenants, contractors, neighboring developers, and the residents of this City of Good Neighbors we have aided in the growth of the Larkin Center, the Larkin District and the City of Buffalo. While we refuse to get used a relatively empty building, we take this situation as an opportunity to pause, reflect and prepare for the inevitable return to an even stronger community.

Time and time again this community has endured challenges and solutions are always at the ready to survive and in turn prosper. We are now faced with the most unique and demanding obstacle most of us have seen in a lifetime, but the “go get ‘em” mentality of Buffalonians must be revised for this solution. We must do our part and physically stay put, allowing our medical community and essential workers to not only maintain a normalcy to our life, but also flatten the curve, develop cures and initiate a return to a new normal.

While staying put has certainly limited certain operations, we hear of active and developing solutions to maintain stability, reorient workflow, and formulate new priorities. Several tenants at the Larkin Center have captured opportunities that allow them to employee a full workforce while producing goods and services that directly support this battle. We are striving for continued innovation as nearly all industries will endure a change in process as we phase our way back towards the life we lived just months ago.

We look forward to all businesses returning to the Larkin Center and sharing our new responsibility to maintain an environment which eliminates a potential spread of the virus. The New York State re-opening plan will phases industries back to work in accordance to essential needs and infection risk level.

General industry and specific business plans will need to be submitted to the state in order to re-open. This includes the analysis and evaluation of its potential public health risk, as well as what precautions and safeguards will be taken to safeguard workers and customers. The governor stressed that these plans need to be creative and thoughtful, adding that businesses need to think about a new normal. This may involve changing a physical space, cleaning, screening, hygiene, travel and transformation, and making changes to lower public health risk.

Stay healthy, stay happy, stay productive!

Larkin Center Management
Facility Operations
The Larkin Center remains open and operational. Access may be obtained at main facility entrances via your assigned access card and PIN. Anyone entering the facility without these credentials, should contact security (716.856.0815) from the 701 Seneca entrance and sign-in upon entry.

Our daily janitorial staff is focusing on frequently touched surfaces and highly trafficked common areas to maintain the extensive standards required for the safest environment possible. Our management team has learned from and improved emergency and operational policies to deal specifically with this type of situation. Reopening strategies have been developed and are prepared to be amended as further recommendation from the CDC and NYS is provided.

The Seneca 1 parking lot will be accessible to all Larkin Center permit holders and parking charges remain on hold until further notice.

Eckl's@Larkin, Kornerstone, Larkin Fitness, The Larkin Gallery and Larkin Center conference rooms (with the exception of the Larkin Idea room on the 2nd floor) will be closed until further notice.
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The History of Larkin, from the Desk of Sharon Osgood
Larkin Company and the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918
Research for this article has been a challenge given the restrictions placed on our community as a result of the current pandemic, the Covid 19 virus. Necessarily, my research has been limited to books in my own collection and to my computer, my ability to use being legendary (in a bad way!).