{{Short description|Highrise in Buffalo, New York}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox building | name = The Marin | former_name = {{ubl|Main Seneca Building|Marine Midland Trust Company}} | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Marin building 2020.jpg | image_alt = | caption = The Marin, in Buffalo, New York | location = 237 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, United States | coordinates = {{coord|42.8807|-78.8759|display=inline,title}} | status = Complete | construction_start_date = | completion_date = April, 1913 | opening_date = | inauguration_date = | renovation_date = | launched = | established = | building_type = Office | roof = {{convert|76.2|m|ft|abbr=on}} | top_floor = | floor_count = 17 | elevator_count = | cost = | floor_area = | architect = Green & Wicks | structural_engineer = | main_contractor = | developer = Lnquist and Illsey | owner = Main Street Buffalo Properties, LP | operator = Priam Enterprises LLC | references = | website = }}
''' The Marin''', previously the '''Main Seneca Building''', and originally known as the '''Marine Midland Trust Company Building''' or the "Marine Trust Building," is a 17-story Renaissance Revival style highrise in downtown Buffalo, New York. The building was previously the headquarters for Marine Midland Bank before the bank constructed One Marine Midland Center at 1 Seneca Tower, the tallest building in Buffalo. It is located in the Joseph Ellicott Historic District.
==History== The building was designed by Buffalo architects Green & Wicks and was completed by Lnquist and Illsey in April 1913 on the corner of Main and Seneca streets.<ref name="Trust Companies">{{cite book |title=Trust Companies, Volume 31 (Google eBook) |publisher=Trust Companies Pub. Association |year=1920 |page=270}}</ref> The building served as the headquarters for Marine Midland Bank before moving across the street into Buffalo's tallest building, One Seneca Tower.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Marine Trust Company Building |author=LaChiusa, Chuck |url=http://www.buffaloah.com/a/main/237/index.html}}</ref>
In December 2014, the building was sold by real estate developer David L. Sweet to Paul J. Kolkmeyer, a developer and former CEO of First Niagara Bank, for $3.89 million. Kolkmeyer's firm, Amherst-based Priam Enterprises LLC, buys, manages and develops residential apartment buildings and student housing in Buffalo and the surrounding communities.<ref name=Sale>{{cite news |last1=Christmann |first1=Samantha |title=Kolkmeyer completes purchase of 5 buildings |url=http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/kolkmeyer-completes-purchase-of-5-buildings-20141231 |access-date=November 21, 2015 |publisher=The Buffalo News |date=December 31, 2014}}</ref> In addition to purchasing the Main Seneca Building, Kolkmeyer purchased the Main Court Building at 43 Main St. (for $4.5 million), as well as the Rand Building, designed by F. J. & W. A. Kidd, at 14 Lafayette Square, the Roblin Building at 241 Main St., (together for $2.56 million) and The Stanton Building (also known as the Glenny Building), designed by Richard A. Waite, at 251 Main St. (for $646,569).<ref name=Sale/>
Paul Kolkmeyer is planning to introduce several new uses to the building. According to Business First, Kolkmeyer expects to put 25 condominiums on the building's top five floors and open a banquet facility in the first floor banking hall. Additionally, he has indicated his desire to put a small boutique hotel into the third floor, and consolidate office tenants into the remaining levels.<ref name="BRO1">{{cite news |last1=BRO staff |title=Condos, Boutique Hotel, Offices, and Banquet Facility for Main-Seneca Building |url=http://www.buffalorising.com/2014/12/condos-boutique-hotel-offices-and-banquet-facility-for-main-seneca-building/ |access-date=February 5, 2016 |publisher=Buffalo Rising |date=December 15, 2014}}</ref>
The public face of the Main Seneca Building has been Andrew J Shaevel who advised potential buyer David Nalbandyan in their attempt to purchase the building now works alongside Paul Kolkmeyer in the revitalization of the property. Shaevel and Kolkmeyer joined forces however to revitalize the property where they hosted the first event on June 11, 2018, at "The Admiral Room at the Marin" the new name for the Main Seneca Building<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.wkbw.com/news/new-life-for-former-marine-trust-building |title=New life for former Marine Trust Building |last=Muller |first=Brittany |date=2018-04-06 |work=WKBW |access-date=2018-08-14 |language=en-US}}</ref>
==See also== * List of tallest buildings in Buffalo, New York * Marine Midland Bank
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==External links== * [http://www.priamllc.com/#!main-seneca/cnlc Marine Trust Building - Priam Enterprises LLC website] * [http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=16781 Skyscraperpage building page] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070317114657/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=mainsenecabuilding-buffalo-ny-usa Emporis building page]}}
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