There are parallels between Seneca One tower and The Tower in Fort Worth. Similarly sized/shaped buildings, both built in the 1970s. When I was a kid I went to dinner with my parents at a restaurant that was up in the tower, a place something like Reatta. It's encouraging that outside investors/developers are putting money into Buffalo projects. Although it didn't get there as dramatically as The Tower did in Fort Worth (tornado), it's been a largely vacant building waiting for a knight in shining armor, similar to the situation in Ft Worth before Bass came in.
Despite differences in population, I see a lot of parallels between my original and adopted homes. Although Fort Worth's population is 3x that of Buffalo, the population of Buffalo is about 2.5 that of Fort Worth. If you look at the county Buffalo is in, it has about the same population as Fort Worth (at a much lower density). Without looking up all the numbers I suspect that if you calculate population and density for Buffalo including its first ring suburbs it would be closely comparable to Fort Worth. Or to put it another way, if you section off Ridglea (comparable to Amherst, NY), and the southside south of the Near Southside (Rosemont, South Hills, Wedgwood and south, similar to Cheektowaga and West Seneca), you might be left with similar cities. Fort Worth is still "on top" though, while Buffalo held its most prominent position in the past.