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• Commented on Construction Watch: 600 Block Re-Traffic
  A fine job is being done down there, I just visited for the first time the other day and had to run up and down Main St. Just to get to the other side! Too bad this isn't getting more...
• Commented on Buffalo Then and Now: Shiny New Buildings
  The M and T Building was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the same designer who designed the World Trade Center shortly after this. They seem to be architecturally similar in that they both had narrow windows and the same ground level...
• Commented on Now Visible, Storefront Looks for Tenants
  Now I see why the station had to be removed....
• Commented on Report: Delaware North Looking at Two Sites for New HQs
  This is Buffalo Rising, we ought to build a skyscraper for a change....
• Commented on Buffalo from Space
  Wow, I can pick up those racial undertones...not a surprise from OFW....
• Commented on Craziness: $200 Million Parking Plan Floated
  Three Words: Better than nothing....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  I think Buffalo is a real city...but with an overwhelming sense of despair. Little job variety, taxes, and weather culminate into despair; we must recognize T.O. is inundated with prosperity and we arent so they achieve growth. Opening pic: Buf...
• Commented on Public Meetings to Discuss Ohio Street Reconstruction Project
  Hopefully they tailor the street to acommodate a new waterfront stadium complex and expanded downtown commercial district for the future....
• Commented on MLK splash pad nearing completion
  Institutionalized racism in the job market, hampered blacks and kept many without careers for generations. This combined with shitty schools today fuels the internal culture of despair. Don't believe the "lazy" B.S....
• Commented on MLK splash pad nearing completion
  Well said....
• Commented on MLK splash pad nearing completion
  I meant lack of quality infastructure (pretty prevalent throgh the whole city), where there isn't a pothole every 2 feet. I'll tell ya, I live in the'burbs and none exist. No good edu.=no motivation=no job. No good education around=no salary...
• Commented on MLK splash pad nearing completion
  How 'bout we think about what's really wrong with the East Side? Lack of quality or skilled jobs to provide for families, poor education and lack of infastructure. I can't believe how many up votes that got, wow....
• Commented on Casino Construction Tops Off
  This site has a plethora of pessimists...Nevertheless, this is a blan, space wasting stubby design. Ask yourself this; when you hear the word "casino", what do you think of? This, or something else? Because when I think of casinos, I...
• Commented on ECHDC and City Submit Joint Proposal for NFTA Outer Harbor Land
  This is great! But then why was the competing against the ECHDC? Are they making a compromise?...
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  > Total baloney. Not exactly. If you haven't checked, Buffalo is actually in the top 20 systems with the highest daily passengers. That is not a typo. Because people see how convenient this sytem is to get downtown, for anything,...
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  sorry for d.p....
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  Instead of making ELAB0ORATE plans and T e a s i n G peple with these bull$#i++£rs, why did they not consider the funds? I'm sitting here thinking if this stuff happened, life would be completly different around here. For...
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  Absolutly, this is what NEEDS to happen in conjunction with economic development. This is why the Main Street development is important, because any progress on anything in this former smoke belching town is exciting to me. A high falutent (I...
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  Absolutly, this is what NEEDS to happen in conjunction with economic development. This is why the Main Street development is important, because any progress on anything in this former smoke belching town is exciting to me. A high falutent (I...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Main @ Mohawk
  As usual, these are great projects for downtown. They will, in coordination with the Main St. cars project, hopefully bring life downtown and people in the next few years. These projects can add to the future "vibe" down there if...
• Commented on Tappo Promises to Bring New Life to Ellicott Street
  Ah, Termini the Terminator, you destroy the competition (paladingdong). You lost me with the "Bills in Hamilton" debacle but you won me back with this, because this is true urban design. Lighter, cheaper, quicker and stylish. Can't wait to see...
• Commented on HSBC Leaving Tower
  There is support behind my up-votes: http://downtown.wgrz.com/news/news/71451-future-tower-high-end-hotel-condos...
• Commented on It takes a public-private partnership.
  No. They are a private corporation, they control where they want to go. I'm tired of hearing people (politicians) recommending where companies go like that....
• Commented on Plans for Next Phase of Main Street Retraffic Work Coming Into Focus
  If anything, Metro Rail should be expanded. We will need it soon, and we better start now. Your comment does not agree with itself when you say, "its ridership figures are strong," yet you contradict this by saying to just...
• Commented on Fillmore Avenue Gets Repaved, Reconfigured, and Bike Lanes
  I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt on this one. I voted you up becausethis is also really needed on both streets. Once again, out here in the burbs believe it or not it isn't all spaghetti junctions...
• Commented on Fillmore Avenue Gets Repaved, Reconfigured, and Bike Lanes
  No, nobody was shot as a persnal experience. Or raped, mugged, molested, etc. I'm just saying I have family there. And everytime I'm there, I see NO crime at all. It is a peaceful little East Side. P.S.: I know...
• Commented on Fillmore Avenue Gets Repaved, Reconfigured, and Bike Lanes
  Let the condescending, stereotypical comments begin ^. Now as far as this project goes, I wonder what the extent of the improvements are, and whether more are to come. Since this is one of the most Divided cities in the...
• Commented on HSBC Leaving Tower
  It is pretty undesierable in the MPM, I realize that. And that's why opening up the MMC's first couple of floors (the big ones) would help. And I'm also not saying to shove a big box in there, I'm talking...
• Commented on Rehabbed Homes in Masten Neighborhood Come with a High Price Tag
  "Shit boxes" and Byron Brown in one post do not mix with me, I'm sorry. Especially this neighborhood. And I fully agree the architecture could've been preserved and the cost brought down but something people would want-key word is want,...
• Commented on HSBC Leaving Tower
  This is super optimal for hotel space (something Buffalo will need if the Bills wish to stay here in the future and host a super Bowl in a new stadium), apartments, office on the lower levels and that big footprint...