2Located at 2495 Main Street, Tri-Main Center has epitomized Buffalo's industrial heritage for over 75 years. Today, the renovated complex symbolizes Buffalo's transition to a broad-based economy and cultural arena for the visual and performing arts.

Built in 1915, Ford Motor Company used the facility as a sales, service and assembly operation. The plant produced over 600,000 Model T's (all Black) 1927 and then the Ford Model A to 1931.

Bell Aircraft Corporation occupied the premises next, leasing the building from 1931 - 1942. Here, they designed and constructed the Airacomet P-59, America's first twin-engine jet warplane.

DNX Corporation, a division of Hercules Motor Company, leased leased the building in 1942 for the manufacture of diesel engines for the U.S. Navy.

Trico Products Company, the world's largest manufacture of windshield wipers, purchased the complex in 1953, expanding the building to its current size of 650,000 square feet, and using the premises until the plant closed in 1987.

Rae Brothers Developments Ltd. of Toronto, a company known for its restoration of older industrial buildings, purchased the "Trico Building" in December 1988 and began to transform the building. Initially, the building housed a 200,000 sq. ft. flea market, which closed in 1992. Since then, the renamed Tri-Main Center has undergone extensive rehabilitation, and its occupancy has increased steadily. It is now over 95% leased to a mix of offices, near office tenants, arts organizations and educational facilities.