There are some exciting things being planned for the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, which is in the pre-development stages in downtown Buffalo.  The Seneca Gaming Corporation, who is in charge of overseeing the construction of the casino, has now asked a group of five different architect firms to come up with a proposal that would incorporate a small bunch of grain elevators into the structure of the casino itself.

The elevators, which were part of the H-O Oats milling operation, were left behind on the nine-acre piece of property that the Seneca Nation selected for the casino site.  The property is located in the Historic Cobblestone District of Buffalo, which has created some concern from preservationists who would like to see remnants of the district's past left in tact.  These particular elevators were built in 1931, and have actually been considered to be put on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Seneca's recently demolished the milling site, which was decrepit and run down, but left the grain elevators.  They had not expressed their intention for the structures, and so some began to be concerned about their fate.  It was not until recently that the tribe revealed the elevators would be ingeniously incorporated with the design of the casino, which seems to be an acceptable solution for all who wanted to keep the grain elevators in tact.

However, nothing is official just yet.  The Seneca's have inquired about the costs of demolishing the elevators also.  Depending of the plans of the architects, and the cost to integrate those plans with the casino design, there is no telling what the tribe will decide for good.