Building Facts
- One HSBC Center is the tallest (privately owned) office building outside of NYC in New York State.
- The building's plaza hosts Ronald Bladen's monumental 1973 work titled "Vroom, Shhh."
- The building spans the southern end of Main Street, under which the Buffalo Metro Rail passes.
- On a clear day, One HSBC Center can be seen from 20 miles (32 km) away along the New York State Thruway. Due to the large number of railroad overpasses in Erie County, the skyscraper can also be seen from many vantage points along Harlem Road, Union Road, the 400 expressway (as far away as Elma), areas nearby Ralph Wilson Stadium (particularly the Lake Ave. and Abbott Rd. intersection), and the Grand Island bridges along the Niagara section of the Thruway.
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