Western New York, underwritten parcel by parcel

GroundUp WNY is a real estate deal platform for Western New York, built for the people who actually build here.

The platform takes a parcel or a vacant building in Erie or Niagara County and turns it into a working pro forma: zoning and overlay districts, incentive programs, rent comparables, construction cost benchmarks, and a return profile you can argue with. From there it holds the whole deal in one place. Sponsors publish the capital stack and the ask. Investors read the documents, reserve an allocation, and follow construction milestones as they land. Builders post capacity and request bid packages. Commercial tenants and their brokers post requirements, and the platform matches them against projects that will have space to fill.

It is for three sides of the same transaction: investors putting capital to work in Western New York, developers and builders putting shovels in the ground, and commercial tenants and brokers looking for space. If you are underwriting a corner storefront in Black Rock, a mixed-use build on Niagara Street, or a spread of rentals across Cheektowaga, the same tools apply.

Who builds it. GroundUp WNY is built and maintained by the GroundUp WNY team, working in Buffalo, New York. We are underwriters, developers and brokers who got tired of spreadsheets, scanned PDFs, email threads and cold introductions, and built the thing we wanted to use. Nothing on this platform is an offer to sell securities. Deals are sponsor-provided market information, and every introduction is verified by a person before it happens.