English: The former Eckhardt's/Kobacker's Department Store, 950 Broadway at Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, October 2019. John Eckhardt and his wife Kate opened their dry-goods store in 1891 in the heart of Buffalo's Polish business district. They retired in 1920 but retained ownership of the lot, and after coming out of retirement in 1939 they tore down the old place and had this 42,000-square-foot (3900 m²) Streamline Moderne building erected in its place. Notice the granite, light cream terra cotta and stainless steel on the facade, as well as the faded yet still visible designs running between the first and second floor and culminating on the curved corner. The new Eckhardt's only lasted a year before the owners died; in the ensuing years it was home to locations of Kobacker's and Goldblatt's department stores, Sears, and most recently a job training center for the New York State Department of Labor. The building was purchased in 2015 by Cedarland Development and thoroughly renovated; a design competition to reconfigure the interior space is ongoing as of the time of this photograph.