Home of the AAA professional baseball team, the Buffalo Bisons, the 21,500 seat Dunn Tire Park opened on April 14, 1988 with the name "Pilot Field." Architects Ben Barnert and Joe Spear of the Kansas City-based firm HOK Sport, Inc., one of the largest architectural firms in the world, worked to blend the $43 million stadium with the historical buildings of the neighborhood, including the Ellicott Square Building and Erie Community College (Old Post Office). The green and brick-red coloring of Dunn Tire Park resonates nicely with the materials and style of these older buildings. Since then, HOK has built numerous sports stadiums all over the world, including retro-style fields such as Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Jacobs Field in Cleveland, and Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco.

The exterior is a limestone-like pre-cast concrete. The arched windows and flag-topped cupolas maintain a 1930s-style facade, which is highlighted by exterior lighting. The dramatic arched entrances emphasize the role of the stadium as a public meeting place. In addition to blending the exterior with its surroundings, the interior incorporates Buffalo's history. For instance, the 500-lb. bronze doors to the attached Pettibones Grille restaurant were taken from the original Buffalo Savings Bank Building. The stadium was designed to enable an upper deck to be added, should expansion be necessary. It also contains a separate female locker room, needed when umpire Pam Postema worked in the AAA American Association. The scoreboard stands 8 stories tall with more than 12,000 lights.

From the corner of Swan and Washington Streets, head one block South to Seneca Street and turn right.