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• Commented on Taking sustainability to the next level...
  Buffalo gets 500 more hours of sunshine a year than Germany and Germany has the most PV installations in the world....
• Commented on Residential Project Proposed for Buffalo River/Ohio Street
  For the people that say this is ugly I get what you are saying, but I was recently in Vancouver and visited Granville Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Island If you have visited there you would immediately think that Buffalo could do the same...
• Commented on Buffalo's Pervious Pavement Project
  Looks like a NYS DOT crew, one guy working and four people watching....
• Commented on Farmers' Market for a day in Black Rock
  I recently saw a show on TV that showed that many cities were having their Markets at night. It allows more people to shop in the evening and the farmers themselves can be there instead of working in the fields....
• Commented on Rolling out the green carpet @ the Inner Harbor
  "It might behoove The City to sell this property to the ECHDC, so that there is less of a disconnect in the future. If it were not for The Sabres, we would still be looking at a giant mud pit."...
• Commented on Coming Soon: The Buffalo Cakery
  Love the logo...
• Commented on Construction Watch: 716 Swan Street
  http://www.buffalorising.com/2011/11/many-small-ships.html Here is the article Buffalo Rising had on the mural....
• Commented on Wrecking WNY: Bethlehem Office Building
  Please post a picture of Lackawanna City Hall. One of the ugliest buidings in the area!!!!! And as someone below says..this could be the new City Hall for Lackawanna....
• Commented on Wrecking WNY: Bethlehem Office Building
  Don't tear it down and put it in a landfill..take it down brick by brick and move it to canalside. I drive by this every day and think how great it could look if they just cut the trees down...
• Commented on Wrecking WNY: Bethlehem Office Building
  stupid...stupid...stupid...
• Commented on Donovan Make-Over: More Images
  On another note, I'm a little concerned that the General Contractor of choice is from out of town. "Clark Construction Group, LLC, the nation's largest privately-held construction company, is the general contractor." Believe it or not our area has a...
• Commented on Anderson Cooper Hears About Dyngus Day, Laughs Uncontrollably
  His reaction was priceless. We should invite him to be the master of ceremony for it next year!!!...
• Commented on St. Bonaventure Gets Robbed in NCAA Tourney
  Stick to your strength's BR because your sport's coverage isn't very good. They were not robbed (and only makes us look more like whiners) it may have been a bad call but the Bonnies (who I was rooting for), took...
• Commented on Super Mario Signs: Williams Gets His Coin in Buffalo
  No, your right, because Jim & Jill Kelly have had no impact on our community as far as Hunter Hope or anything they have done for our community. I heard the same jealousy crap when Jim Kelly signed. He and...
• Commented on Super Mario Signs: Williams Gets His Coin in Buffalo
  http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/11/mario-williams-donates-sports-cars-to-hpd/ Looks like he is generous Travelrrr and that was before the $100 million he just signed for....
• Commented on Shine My Silo City
  The possibilities are endless so I hope their isn’t financial restraints. It would be so cool to have the grain elevator across from the Central Warf as the first one. To take a boat tour at night with all of...
• Commented on Colvin Estates Models Nearly Completed
  Time will tell, but the same thing happened in Hamburg and I'm sure all of those houses weren't built in the winter. I know someone who sold their house there and had to replace her roof after 7 years after...
• Commented on Colvin Estates Models Nearly Completed
  I drive by this subdivision every day. Headiing north on Colvin you will see several of the roof shingles have already blown off the back of the ranch model. His subdivison in Hamburg had the same issues....
• Commented on Dinosaur BBQ. So close but so far...
  There are over 80 responses so obviously it does matter to people. Talk to some of the local owners that have been on the Food Network and you will find that most have really increased their business from the exposure....
• Commented on Dinosaur BBQ. So close but so far...
  How about the DL&W building. I thought the NFTA wants to sell some it's property and that is a great space in the Canalside area near the Arena. http://buffaloah.com/a/main/dlw/zos.html...
• Commented on Buffalo's Original Sports' Bubble
  Tropical Islands Dome (Brandenburg, Germany) I saw this on the History Channel, it may have been Modern Marvels or Super structures. http://placearama.com/?p=221 Just 60 km south of Berlin, the German capital city, Tropical Islands Dome is a converted airship hangar...
• Commented on Canal Contract Let and Cultural Attractions Picked for Canalside
  http://www.eekarchitects.com/community/4-in-the-news/150-buffalos-waterfront-shuffle I like the architect of the previous renditions better. Has more character....
• Commented on Heritage Trolley Line Proposed
  A year later and I was wondering if there is any updates on this?...
• Commented on So About the Undefeated Buffalo Bills. . .
  I'm enjoying the win. It took nine weeks to win one last year; but we were also 4-4 the second half of the year under a new staff so I'm sure we are not as bad as preceived by the...
• Commented on Funding in Place, Work on Livery Starting Soon
  My gosh...I wish we were producing architecture like this nowadays..if nothing else you didn't see any complaints about how it looks....
• Commented on Canalside: Time to get the snowball rolling...
  Maybe you should check for leaks...$160 a quarter for a water bill? Where? I've been down to Canal Side just about every weekend and you have people down there from out of state and from out of this country..and I'm...
• Commented on Welcome to [Insert Your Neighborhood Here]
  awesome...
• Commented on Canalside: Time to get the snowball rolling...
  1) Reach out to New Era and ICE (the maker of the game and from Clarence)to have a weekly Bubble Hockey tournament and then have the World Championship at Canal Side much like they had the tournament at the Convention...
• Commented on Canalside: Time to get the snowball rolling...
  zamboni rides...
• Commented on Canalside: Time to get the snowball rolling...
  I like the idea of curling. I think a lot of Americans were fascinated by curling after the last Winter Oympics in Canada. We could have clinics on how to play....