HTN: Transportation Museum Expanding

Expansion of the Buffalo Transportation Museum is expected to begin sometime this year. Museum founder and executive director James Sandoro hopes to start construction of a 15-million-dollar, 60-thousand-square-foot addition to the museum by fall at the latest. Sandoro is also looking to build a new facade for the building, giving it more of a 20th century look. The expansion is designed to house a late 1920s-era filling station, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright but never built until now. Weather concerns prompted Sandoro to move the project indoors and make it the centerpiece of the expansion. The museum holds such classic and antique vehicles as Pierce-Arrows, Mustangs and Corvettes, many of which are part of Sandoro's private collection. Others were donated.