monday march 13th 2006
'The Larkin District'
West Coast Perspective
There's a quiet transformation taking place at the Craven Dickinson Seed Company Building located at 567 Exchange Street, corner of Hamburg Street. The four-story, 60,000 square foot building is evolving into a vibrant artist and commercial hub in the Exchange Street corridor. This emerging area has also been tagged with a catchy new moniker: 'The Larkin District,' due to the number of buildings along Seneca and Exchange Streets which once housed catalog firm …
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buffalorising
The annual Scajaquada Creek Clean-up sponsored by the Grant Amherst Business Association takes place on April 22nd. It is a half or all day event for the more intrepid. We will be meeting at the American Legion Post 1041 on Amherst Street next to Wegman's at 8:30am on Saturday, April 22nd for coffee, doughnuts, tool sign-out and volunteer…
buffalorising
Youive seen houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Now learn about two radically different kinds of buildings designed by Wright: the Blue Sky Mausoleum in Forest Lawn, and the Filling Station in a slide lecture by Patrick Mahoney. The illustrated lecture on New Building Types by Frank Lloyd Wrightis in the 1920s wi…
sunday march 12th 2006
Neighborhood Collective Welcomes Michael Morgulis
queenseyes
GRAND OPENING! n Michael Morgulis and his LOCAL COLOR GALLERY are moving into the Neighborhood Collective @ 810 Elmwood Avenue. Join the gang for a wedding of sorts, Friday, March 31st, 7-9pm where there will be a Gala Reception. All the businesses will officially share the address of the Neighborhood Collective: Annie A…
West Coast Perspective
Natale Buildersi proposal for an infill development in North Buffalo near Shoshone Park conflicts with residentsi plans envisioning a greenway trail on the same property, and they are not too pleased. A conce…
saturday march 11th 2006
We Can't Save Everything?
STEEL
"We can't save everything!" This is the often heard mantra of those who believe (or would like you to believe) that architectural preservation efforts in Buffalo are responsible for inhibiting or stopping development in the city. Take a look at the image above. It is a post card from the early 1960's showing a very densely built downtown Buffalo from the …
Joan Fedyszyn
As a longtime New Yorker, I always found the quick accessibility that the subway provided to any part of the city, to be a beautiful thing. For all of the controversy it attracts, Buffalois Main St NFTA/Metro Rail is a very important element indeed in the residential development of Downtown Buffalo.
In a recent interv…
friday march 10th 2006
Hot off the press!
Ed Healy
The Buffalo Niagara 2006 Official Visitors Guide is hot off the press and poised to spread the good word about Buffalo, Niagara Falls and all of Western New York. Featuring a killer illustration of the Darwin Martin House by local artist and illustrator Mike Gelen (you've seen his work for years on the Irish Classical Theatre Company posters), the Visitors Guide provides tourists with a comprehensive overview of all there is to see and do in our region.
West Coast Perspective
Upscale living may be coming to Gates Circle. Uniland Development Co. has proposed a 30 to 50 unit condominium project on the site of the long-running Park Lane restaurant at $500,000 to $1M each. Considered by many to be a Buffalo institution, a restaurant has been operating on the site for 83 years. The current building on the site was constructed in…
STEEL
As a young boy I probably had caught glimpses of of the Connecticut Street Armory from car trips to and from Canada or Niagara Falls. But from the thruway it was always something distant, an apparition. As a kid I was very in tune with buildings but, this far off edifice never entered my consciousness the way other buildings had. In tru…
