benfranklin

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• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  This is insightful. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. (Reminds me of the kind of list that would result from a brainstorming meeting with a consulting group attempting to fix things...it really could be a starting point.)...
• Commented on Warm up to Don Tequila
  Went in on Sunday (glad they were open). First impression is they seem to know what they're doing. Lots of staff, greeted at the door... food was to go (so didn't have a drink), but it was good....
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  Under the best circumstances, parenting is hard work. If you're working two jobs to make ends meet, finding the time to check Junior's homework may be impossible. If your own parents were not up to the task, where do you...
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  The majority on this site believe the parents in the suburbs are to blame for failing kids in the city. The parents in the suburbs are 'too greedy, too focused on personal success', and that obviously, leads to problems for...
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  Thanks Cindy. Would it help the children if they had role models that stressed a good work ethic and self responsibility? I think that would be the message passed along by the political group you hold in such low regard...
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  You win. Tax me at 70%, I'm sure that will turn every misbehaving student into a mini-Einstein....
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  Cindy, maybe you could expound upon the correlation between a 'tea-bagger' and their disruptive children?...
• Commented on Community Activism and the TRICO Bloodline
  Bini is about the most 'even' thinking individual who actively posts to the site. The general public is far less sympathetic towards Trico than the most pro-demolition (your label) person on this site's message board. I'd be in favor of...
• Commented on Community Activism and the TRICO Bloodline
  The focus of the BNMC should be on building a great campus that may, if we're lucky, spin off jobs and economic growth to the community. Saddling them with the rehab of 600,000 square feet is beyond the scope of...
• Commented on Community Activism and the TRICO Bloodline
  While we're demanding things of the BNMC that they don't have the money or skill set to complete, let's demand that they cure cancer, now. I'm passionate about it, have had family members pass because of it, and I'm demanding...
• Commented on Warm up to Don Tequila
  When they were in OP, they took credit cards. Most likely this is a start up issue that will be resolved soon....
• Commented on Interview an Atheist at Church Day
  ...on a better day, we'd all be more tolerant....
• Commented on Preservation Award Winner: Remington Lofts on the Canal
  Sunday's Buffalo News Business section will feature a business (website company) that has purchased and 'upgraded' the building at 2 Main Street. Right in the neighborhood you're talking about. The view up the canal is pretty cool....
• Commented on Painting for Preservation to Launch Third Season with Exhibit and First Event at 23 North Street
  Has anyone talked to Obletz about this? Does First Amherst want to sell it, or do they have development plans? Prior to the downturn, I know they were planning on adding to the square footage (40 units in 8000 makes...
• Commented on Done Deal: 185 Niagara Street Sold
  A couple of people have said there would be outrage about a Tim Horton's here. (There is no interest in doing this that I'm aware of, just interested in the Tim Ho's perception.) Just curious.... is that something specific to...
• Commented on Game On!
  I'll get it out early...I'm a ball chaser. I chased a ball in college, so it's fairly ingrained. I have a son, and I've been asking myself a similar question that you pose. Why do we play sports? I wonder...
• Commented on FREE: Mid-19th Century Commercial Building, Needs Some Love
  I'm in agreement. You want to encourage people to get in the rehab game (probably a poor choice of words)... but this one... that back wall is just asking to come down. Bricks were weaved together for a reason, that...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Hotel Graystone on Track for New Residents this Summer
  The thin stud equal to the thickness of lathe and plaster is interesting. In that top picture, they plan on putting drywall on both surfaces, right? It's a lot of work to decide what to pull down, and what's sound...
• Commented on Done Deal: 185 Niagara Street Sold
  I shouldn't complain...but I'm going to. I wish he'd do something with the hole he dug on Franklin. I side 99% with developers who choose to do projects in the city, but tearing down the Continental, creating a pit, and...
• Commented on Ryan Miller's Condo Listed For Sale
  If he is leaving, I hope he faces 50 shots tonight, and puts up a shut out. It would be nice for the fans to give him an ovation as he leaves the ice. Good luck to him some where...
• Commented on FREE: Mid-19th Century Commercial Building, Needs Some Love
  Have you talked to the city about this? Specifically, how long would you have before you're in court. Maybe someone else could answer this... but if they had stopped paying the taxes, it goes to tax auction, doesn't sell, needs...
• Commented on FREE: Mid-19th Century Commercial Building, Needs Some Love
  Thanks for bringing some attention to the property. On your flickr post, the second to last image is pretty scary. That brick under the window is pretty far gone. The arch above the window looks like it will come down...
• Commented on Preservation Buffalo Niagara Proposes to Further Assist with Trico Reuse Planning
  Agree with bini. I'd go a step further and say that preservationists that choose to make this building an issue weaken their brand. 600,000 square feet is equivalent to 100 buildings similar in size to the Zeptometrix rehab. The argument...
• Commented on Preservation Buffalo Niagara Proposes to Further Assist with Trico Reuse Planning
  Similar rework of Trico would be $260 million. I'm sure PBN could come up with that money in six months, if it really is a viable project. If they can't, how can anyone ask the campus to be forced to...
• Commented on Allentown Litter Mob
  That's interesting, do you know something specific with this property?...
• Commented on Allentown Litter Mob
  436 Franklin was purchased at auction for just over $20,000 in 2003. It was a different auction, can't remember the details, but I think it was the IRS. Mother's owner got unruly during the auction...don't remember what that was all...
• Commented on Allentown Litter Mob
  There's some kind of rental assistance agency in 470 Franklin. People often double park to go in... they receive a spreadsheet of properties printed out in a packet. Fairly often this packet is just pitched out the window once they...
• Commented on Allentown Litter Mob
  Does it ever make sense to be critical of a group trying to improve the city? I have property in that area, and yes, I do my best to keep it clean. However, there are events in the area that...
• Commented on More Buffalo Ink
  Interesting to see these, surprised actually, to see so many. Like the postmark for it's simplicity. No 'Made in Buffalo, NY'?...
• Commented on 2012 Metro Year in Jobs- Buffalo Fourth (worst)
  I get where you're going here... but anhydrous ammonia tanks are bombs waiting to go off around the country. Even here in NY, the tanks sit outside, easy access to anyone once a business is closed. When the corn gets...