tjhorner1

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• Commented on Real Estate Rumor: Delaware North Moving to Delaware and Chippewa
  Love the idea of a new tower for Delaware North....I really think that the rest of the market will fill in to the vacated space, as Buffalo continues to recover. Change is good, and a shake up may be just...
• Commented on TRICO Press Conference Today at Noon - Be There!
  Travelrrr....quick to assume that I'm not already "pitching" in. Bad assumption on your part. At this point, I've chosen to focus on the development of our architecturally significant buildings of the future. While not working on this BNMC project specifically,...
• Commented on TRICO Press Conference Today at Noon - Be There!
  There is a clear difference between "old" and "architecturally significant". One is worth the time and effort of saving, and the other, is not. Trico is old. In other news, Buffalo Business First reported today that that BNMC is focusing...
• Commented on Recognizing the Potential of One HSBC Center
  1st, I love your thinking outside of the box. I wish there was more of it in this area! With that said, I disagree with your statement that "A building this size in downtown Buffalo would almost have to become...
• Commented on Common Council Looks to Revise Food Truck Rules
  It's unfortunate that I won't be able to enjoy weekend brunches at the Lake Effect Diner anymore. I can't support a business owner who relies on strangling out their competition via regulation, as opposed to providing the best product available,...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Just to set a baseline, I own a home in the Elmwood Village, take the 198 every day on my way to work, and care a GREAT deal about the City of Buffalo. (not sure if that makes me Group...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Am I the only one who thinks that the 198 is not a tragedy? It serves as a hybrid expressway/parkway. The ramps are short, the speed limit is reduced, and the length is minimal. Oh, and there are stoplights –...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  HutchTecher, the thought isn't to build more roads, but that an increase in the population of the City of Buffalo would result in traffic issues, and that wouldn't be such a bad thing. You said "These roads will eventually crumble....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  You're right, it COULD be an indication of sprawl. I doubt it though. The city has dropped from 580,000 people to 261,000 people in the past 50 years. Many of those people, and have moved to the suburbs (completely normal...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Toronto Condo Boom
  Some of the comments to this article crack me up. If you're bragging about 20 minute commute times to anywhere, you should really check out Batavia....it's only 5 minutes there!! It's my opinion that if, in 10 years, Buffalo has...
• Commented on The NHL May Have Been Quiet...
  "Pretty sure there's a limit to how high they can build." Why would they do that? It's downtown, not Amherst. that would be a curious move.......
• Commented on Betting on Vasilis Downtown
  Unfortunately, I don't think that any of the restaurants downtown, save Pearl St., are making money hand over fist. Is the argument here that if these business had extended hours on the weekends and evenings, they would be packed during...
• Commented on HARBORcenter- Additional Details Emerge
  I love it, and can't wait to see it built, but..... Does the opportunity exist to build the parking garage underground? In the renderings, the parking garage is above ground, and the ice rinks are built on top of it....
• Commented on Where are all the Young People?
  I'm 37. My fiance is 31. I grew up in the Southtowns, and my fiance, in Northeastern Ohio. In April, we moved NORTH, to Buffalo, from North Carolina, and are buying a house in the City of Buffalo. We both...
• Commented on Wrecking WNY: Bethlehem Office Building
  Who is paying for this demo? Public, or private. Sorry if I missed that in the article. I'm guessing this is a publicly financed demo? Funny (or not funny), that a typical financial impediment to rehabbing an older building, is...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: The Marlowe Theater
  Ok, so I have to ask. Who is building the 3 story structure that is replacing this, and what does it look like?...
• Commented on Addicted to Demolition, the Making of an Urban Prairie
  Good article... The author said "The likelihood over the next couple decades of Buffalo regaining its population level of 580,000 residents in 1950 is remote" While remote that Buffalo will get back to 580,000 within the next few decades, if...
• Commented on Casino Battle Royale: Citizens Group Calls for Further Inquiry into Alleged Conflict of Interest
  Who is funding all of these legal challenges? Seriously, there has to be a ridiculous legal bill to file all of these lawsuits against an Indian Casino that is already open, in a shack. Wouldn't it make more sense to...
• Commented on Federal Funds to Spur Additional Main Street Retraffic Work
  I won't beat the dead horse of whether or not traffic will, or won't "bring back Main St." I'm not sure it will do either, by itself. I do want to say that I couldn't agree more with Nicholas Miller...
• Commented on Buffalo in One Word: Surprising
  I have never heard anyone say it like this before, but, Jason, you nailed it, and it couldn't be any more true in any city in America. "I see Buffalo as a place where, if you're willing to un-tuck your...
• Commented on Buffalo's 2nd Skyline: Silo City and Elevator Alley
  I know that this is just an echo of what everyone else has already said, but I'm hoping that the more vocal the support for lighting the grain elevators is, the more likely it will actually happen. I don't know...
• Commented on Bethune Lofts Project Receives Incentives
  Ok, so I've said this before, but here goes again. If a building brings is only bringing in $10,000 a year in taxes, because it's a dump, and a private developer comes in, makes enough improvements that the building will...
• Commented on Concept for Reuse of Millard Fillmore Gates Released
  Great plan...nice work ULI. I love it! A couple of things... Tha article says...."Kaleida will be closing its Gates Circle facilities in early 2012 and expects to relinquish the title to the property on January 1, 2013" Just wondering.....relinquish the...
• Commented on Higgins Seeking Changes to Historic Tax Credit Program
  Just a refresher on tax credits. They aren't really a hand out at all. If a property is generating little to no tax income, and someone comes in and increases the value of the building in a way in such...
• Commented on Tear Down These Ramps!
  Meh for me too. I don't know that the cost of deleting these ramps would get us a good return on our investment. I'd rather see any potential money be injected back into the neighborhoods themselves for revitalization. Assuming it...
• Commented on Vehicle Traffic Returning to 600 Block in 2012
  So trains and cars will be sharing the road? Sounds brilliant...especially right after a Sabres game. So, I have to assume that Main St will also be backed up with vehicle traffic during these times? If so, won't that kind...
• Commented on A concept for the Statler
  Let's take the paperwork part of this equation off of the table for the moment, because, while a ton of work, we know it can be done. Even at a cost of $100k in legal fees, it would be a...
• Commented on Preservation Board on Elevator Demo: Not So Fast
  You have got to be kidding me.... Someone wants to pay, with their own money, to remove a deteriorating eyesore that we all wish would go away, and people are challenging it? Rest assured, the number is visitors who come...
• Commented on Our Lady of Lourdes Purchased
  I looked at this building to purchase about 5 years ago, and the asking price was $60k. It was actually listed with a residential Realtor at the time. Funny to hear that it spike to $200k. The interior of this...
• Commented on Hilton Name Returning Downtown
  Good Call rb09. After 30 years (Wales beat the Campbell in OT), I forgot....