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• Commented on The Bailey Avenue Neighborhood is Working Towards a Brighter Future
  "Major Byron W. Brown and Bishop Richard Joseph Malone have joined forces in a mutual effort to revitalize the Delavan-Bailey Neighborhood, and save St. Girard's Church from an untimely fate. Called 'The Tenth Crusade', the program will ..."...
• Commented on The Bailey Avenue Neighborhood is Working Towards a Brighter Future
  A big problem in the future is the condition of the housing stock. Kensington developed almost overnight, with a building boom after World War I. The vast majority of houses in Kensington were built in a 10-year period between 1919...
• Commented on The Bailey Avenue Neighborhood is Working Towards a Brighter Future
  > I learned that apparently this neighborhood declined quickly Having lived there during the fall, indeed it did. Up until the mid-1880s, it was a mostly lower middle to middle class neighborhood. Ethnically mixed, but whites in the majority. A...
• Commented on The Bailey Avenue Neighborhood is Working Towards a Brighter Future
  I've seen original plans somewhere, and St. James was originally going to be as grand as any church on the East Side. However, they only managed to build the portal before money dried up. Historically, Kensington was a bit more...
• Commented on The Bailey Avenue Neighborhood is Working Towards a Brighter Future
  Cam33r4> I always found it funny that most of the students who live around South live in that Heights area off of Main, but nobody I know of lives near Bailey/Kensington. That's something I would like to see change in...
• Commented on Sweet_ness adds a European twist
  It's not that Buffalo is "small time." It's that news like this presents Buffalo in a "small time" light. No, Buffalo isn't Toronto, but it's not Watkins Glen or Clifton Springs, either. It's a good thing that a city-based business...
• Commented on The Hamlin Park Neighborhood: A Strong Community and One You Should be Seriously Considering
  I read it with great interest. My Dad grew up on the block in the second-to-last picture....
• Commented on The Hamlin Park Neighborhood: A Strong Community and One You Should be Seriously Considering
  "Hamlin Park is a great neighborhood! You should live there." "Sounds nice. You go first." "No, you go." "No. you." "Why don't you want to move there? Are you racist?" "Are you?" "No. You should still move there, though." "If...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  > suburban architecture What makes architecture "suburban?" I'm not talking about chain hotels and restaurants with standardized design, or vehicle-oriented site planning, but rather a custom build like this. Give me more than just "It's bland"; what makes it bland?...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  Because it's no longer cool to say "it looks like it belongs in Amherst" for every building that either doesn't exhibit either extreme cutting edge or extreme pre-1930 retro architecture....
• Commented on Buffalo Then and Now: Shiny New Buildings
  > Flawless For real....
• Commented on Development Road Trip: Ithaca
  > By making the buildings attractive and built in the style of the neighborhood (to the curb, They don't allow development to the curb in Ithaca. The closest you can get is the front property line at the edge of...
• Commented on Development Road Trip: Ithaca
  > By comparison, Breckenridge Place puts 50 units on less than a single acre. It includes parking and ground floor retail. It's not going to have ground floor retail. The reason why is kind of complicated, but it has to...
• Commented on Development Road Trip: Ithaca
  Ithaca has the highest hotel rates in upstate New York; higher than even Buffalo. The problem; a lot of special events that bring thousands to the city in short bursts, followed by longish lulls. This presents a challenge to hotel...
• Commented on Development Road Trip: Ithaca
  > Have you ever been to Cornell? Is it most definitely not integrated into Ithaca. The Cornell core campus is HUGE, and stretches beyond the City of Ithaca into the outlying town. It's not integrated into Ithaca in the same...
• Commented on Development Road Trip: Ithaca
  For all practical purposes, the City of Ithaca has _two_ downtowns; The Commons and Collegetown. * The Commons area, around State Street. This is the historic downtown, and the setting for all of the projects WCPerspective mentioned. It's a busy...
• Commented on Development Road Trip: Ithaca
  In the surrounding Town of Ithaca, the proposed comprehensive plan recommends a halt to conventional suburban development. In certain areas near the city, all new development would take the form of mixed use traditional neighborhood design. Further out, in certain...
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  That was insensitive of me. I should have said this thread was _special_....
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  > It's not a lifestyle, chosen or otherwise. It's who people are. And this comment got downvotes. Sad....
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  > Or a new wing recipe. I hope Gabriel's Gate wins all the new customers. Gabriel's Gate used to have a primarily gay clientèle in the 1970s. Just sayin'. :D...
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  > This whole thread is gay. That comment is demeaning to the LGBT community, and you should hang your head in shame. This thread isn't "gay". It's _retarded_....
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  Not all modern architecture is brutalist....
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  So, like 97 Rock's playlist, the look and feel of Buffalo's architecture should have been frozen at a certain point in time? Architectural innovation is terrific, as long as it happened before 1930?...
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  davvid> he views the places where gays mingle as undesirable It's 2013. Gays and lesbians can mingle just about anywhere now, at least in the more tolerant Northeastern US. And that, in my opinion, is a good thing. No, you're...
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  Bills716> Would you ever raise a family across the street from one of those bars? Would you raise a family across the street from _any_ bar, regardless of the sexual orientation of its patrons? I wouldn't want to live across...
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  The invisible hand of the market will ultimately determine property values and lease rates in the area. If there's a high demand for commercial space in the neighborhood, rents will reflect that. If established bars/clubs can't afford the new rents,...
• Commented on Looking for Dome Home Site in WNY
  In the city, neighborhoods that are considered "good" have most, if not all of their residential lots built out. Yes, there's opportunity for redevelopment on underdeveloped sites, but there's very, very few existing vacant residential lots. There's still a good...
• Commented on An opportunity to camouflage outdoor gas meters
  > They told me it was for safety reasons. They don't seem to be doing this in the suburbs. Also, I haven't seen any move of gas meters to front yards in other cities. When I lived in Cleveland, I...
• Commented on Sprawl-tastic Grab Bag #2
  I almost bought a house that backed up to Tiger Woods' subdivision (Isleworth). One side is middle class with public streets, the Isleworth side is wealthy and gated. It would have been a 1.5 mile drive to visit my backyard...
• Commented on Sprawl-tastic Grab Bag #2
  It's not the pattern that's equivalent, but rather the level of connectivity given the intended form of transportation....