Ellicott Development Takes a Liking to St. Paul Mall

I used to live at 30 St Paul Mall for a few years. It has potential to be a great little neighborhood, especially with the medical corridor expanding as it is.

I have a feeling we'll be reading about Saint Paul Mall in the near future when we are calling on everyone to fight to save them from the wrecking ball. Carl Paladino and Ellicott Development only worship the almighty dollar. This street is more valuable to them when vacant or when converted to a pricey fenced in community. There will be no consideration for the poor who live near by. Just see what they are doing to the housing on Best Street. They close down one at a time and hope no one notices. It won't be long before this street is gentrifyed and all the residents are kicked out and told to live somewhere else.

C'mon, Paladino will do something wonderful here. Remember he is one of us, which is why so many of you [lots actually according to the polls] voted for him. By the ariel shots it looks to me like he is thinkin parking, more parking. Def a shortage of parking.

Please don't let it be more parking.

I mean, if I had money to invest, I would totally buy up real estate in and around Main Street and the medical campus. With the new Global Vascular Institute almost finished, the prospect of all medical professional schools moving downtown, and the remote possibility of Children's relocating there, it would be hard not to make profits in the future.

DOLLAR STORE!

I'll tell you exactly whats happening- He is preparing to build a drug store, most likely a Walgreens. The purchases of the houses is to minimize the neighborhood opposition... the less homeowners there are, the less opposition there is. Mark my words, this site is being made ready for a Walgreens.

I think we can only hope that by the time the rest of the St. Paul Mall houses are acquired, the Buffalo Green Code will be completed and passed into law, and will prevent a strip plaza, Walgreens, or dollar store from being built with an enormous corner parking lot.

I only think 'DOOMED' when I hear, Carl is involved. Look at how we almost lost the Webb building when HE owned it? Look at the wonderful first floor retailers in the former L.L. Bergers and former Courtyard Mall (he owns) and the Greystone? and the Dollar Stores in the heart of the city that look like they belong in Tonawanda instead. Yeah, can we say DEMO or ROTTING corpse to this part of tow, now that Carl is involved.

What the hell is the point of saving this particular block?

Well, given that Walgreen's is located at Delaware and North, I would bet 20:1 it won't be a Walgreen's. I don't know whether Paladino intends to gentrify or knock down, but he's smart to acquire more land adjacent to his Lady of Lourdes property. The larger the site, the more diverse the development potential.

I have a hunch that if everything on this site were demolished to build a new multistory medical facility, opposition would wilt. and rightly so, imo.

There is nothing wrong with parking lots (this is not Manhattan), other than they are butt ugly.

Too bad there was never a law requring every parking lot to have arborvitae bushes on the permiter. They grow to 6 feet in no time, making every car in the parking lot not visible from the street (except at the entrance).

A couple of thousand dollar solution. Never happen. Oh well.

The fact that there is a Walgreen's at Delaware/North means nothing. There's one in the works for Gates Circle as well.

Carl is the developer of choice for Rite Aid not Walgreen's. I walked through this area at the end of July and the Global Vascular Institute is extremely close to St.Paul's Mall.There is no immediate parking for employees of the Institute and I believe that Goodrich St was closed off from connecting to Best as part of the development plan for this building. Next to Rite Aids and Dollar Stores, Carl loves parking lots so let the speculation begin.

I think Bini is correct, Carl will clear cut this whole area for a medical building of some sorts. Too bad we can't maintain the historic street-scape of Main St. It is slowly disappearing and being replaced by uninspiring low budget building of poor taste that do not belong in a great city.

This dude is the master of buying low. He maybe a jackass sometimes, but he knows the WNY market better than anyone.

The city is suffering big time from outside developers coming in and purchasing buildings at prices that do not make business viable for them. They are all going bankrupt while Mr. Paladino is burning money on political campaigns.

Gotta hand it to him.

There's 14 homes serviced by 3 streets, two of which are cul-de-sacs and most of you are concerned about them??? Talk about inefficient! And apparently some of you think the world's largest pharmacy will be placed here? He doesn't need to buy all those homes to put up a pharmacy, that's far more acreage than he would need.

Those homes are an island to themselves. I say get out the 'dozer and make way for some commercial/medical space. And while you're at it, knock down that Wendy's too.

I agree with the other posters, this street looks like it would be a great set for a zombie apocalypse movie, not so much an urban neighborhood a few miles from the CBD

Hey, guys, heres a hint:

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2010/12/10/buffalo-expansion-on-dollar-general.html

just what we need, more dollar stores.