The Eastern Great Lakes sector of the U.S. Coast Guard is getting a new facility. 

The new buildings on Fuhrmann Boulevard will be home base for the Coast Guard's Buffalo team, and the Aids to Navigation team. According to Coast Guard officials, the new building will allow for more efficient operations and support for the Coast Guard's critical missions along the Eastern Great Lakes, including search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, and maintaining aids to navigation.

This construction project in Buffalo, which broke ground Tuesday morning, is estimated to cost the Coast Guard $32 million. 

"Ladies and gentlemen, the crews here before you represent the world's best Coast Guard. and they deserve world-class facilities to perform inherently dangerous missions and this groundbreaking ceremony recognizes the investment in our facilities but it also symbolizes the investment in our people," U.S. Coast Guard Captain Neal Armstrong said.

The Coast Guard currently is working on 70 projects nationwide. 

Coast Guard Sector Eastern Great Lakes is responsible for more than 570 miles of shoreline stretching from Vermillion, Ohio to Massena, New York.