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• Commented on Just Three Lots Remain in First Phase of Colvin Estates
  I think large areas of this city should be taken over via enement domain or via the establishment of a Land Bank and redeveloped. It seems to me, that every housing infill/ redevelopment that has happened in the last 25...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Ah the ghosts of Robert Moses! Lovely. Next time you drive "the" 198, please take time to count all of the light poles that have been plowed into by cars exceeding the posted 50 mph limit. "the" 198 looks like...
• Commented on Webster Block Plan Advances; Alternative Vision Floated
  This is a joke right? Is it April 1st yet? How can this guy expect to be taken seriously when he does this 8th grade arm chair architecture?...
• Commented on Vision for Parking in Elmwood Village
  This is the type of out-moded insanity that has resulted in downtown Buffalo. We should not be designing for CARS, rather people! Yeah i get it, people with cars come in, spend money don't want to walk, blah, blah, blah....
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: 375 Colvin Avenue
  North Park neighborhood is bordered by Delaware, Kenmore, Linden, and Starin. Look it up....
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: 375 Colvin Avenue
  Considering there is such a great track record of church conversions to apartments in North Park, this is very perplexing. I am curious to here if there is an intended use for the property. I.e. Drugstore? And what about these...
• Commented on Demolition of Kensington Heights to Continue Through Winter
  http://www.pruittigoenow.org/the-unmentioned-modern-landscape-2/ Pretty Interesting...last building was demolished in 2006, BTW!...
• Commented on A Buffalo Renaissance Proclamation
  How do i even respond to this? What value to i give a response? how many questions do i take in the five minute attention span that i have for Buffalo Rising? If you are serious please read "Don't Call...
• Commented on Construction Watch: One Canalside
  Beltway architecture....
• Commented on PBN: 273 Main Street Demo "Disturbing"
  The cat is already out of the bag people, this is the precedent. This is the NORMAL in Buffalo. Embrace it! We are a temporal people, we do not value character defining places, and there isn't a law that cannot...
• Commented on Source: Kaleida Picks Vet School for Gates Site
  yeah nevermind. Can't wait to see this sit idle for the next five years while the devleoper figures out how to conjure up a Veterinary School......
• Commented on Source: Kaleida Picks Vet School for Gates Site
  Could not think of a worse reuse plan for this antiquated jumble of poor renovations. If you have ever been in this mess you know that usable space is at a premium because of structure and MEP systems. Kaleida would...
• Commented on Spending $200+ million to fix up an old stadium in the Southtowns is a losing strategy
  It doesn't matter where they play as long as they put a sub par product on the field. In that vein, I would encourage them staying put and investing in talent, and not hamstringing themselves in debt for the sake...
• Commented on Infringement Leaves Its Mark
  THIS IS SO FAKE! Why don't we hire some Vandals to "stage" a vandalism at a property... I know this is a subculture, and that they think of themselves as artists, but they are not and this is VANDALISM! Grafitti...
• Commented on Should Buffalo start training now?
  Very cool! I like the notion of Highspeed rail as part of it. Maybe we can host the track and field and parlay that into a new bills stadium down town....
• Commented on Enjoy a Twilight Tour of Wright on the Lake
  Why is the grass Photoshoped? Wierd......
• Commented on St. Luke's Project to Serve Single Moms and Families
  You represent that shrinking vocal minority who try to impose personal values on others. Free yourself from the worry and the hate....
• Commented on Fox News: Top US revival cities worth visiting
  No that you mention it, I have seen an increase of people walking around with perplexed looks on their faces......
• Commented on City Expects to Select Webster Block Developer in Two Weeks
  Building wise, they are both an effort to cram 10 ga. Sh.. into a 5 ga. Pale. Lots going on. So, you have to look deeper. Click on the architect's websites, Charles Gordon has done that quaint (but successful) project...
• Commented on Benchmark Makes Slight Changes to Elmwood Mixed-Use Proposal
  We all know Karl uses his involvement with the neighborhood groups to spear head these developments, but he should remain as a developer, because his building design skills are an embarrassment to himself and this neighborhood. Benchmark and others should...
• Commented on Globe Market To Go Opens on Hertel
  This makes me so happy! (and full!) We have lived off of Hertel for six years and have noticed a dramatic increase in foot traffic, as one of our hobbies is to people watch from aour second floor porch. We...
• Commented on Scarf for Scharf's
  mmmmm German food......
• Commented on Blockbuster Out, Panera in on Elmwood
  mmmmmm Cheesey bread...
• Commented on Dino BBQ Picks Franklin Street Location
  mmmm BBQ!...
• Commented on Cannon Design Leaving its Mark on Downtown
  Because Cannon is so big, and have such a vast portfolio of projects from around the world, they have an unfair advantage over local smaller firms. Also the fact that they do not even do the work in their Grand...
• Commented on Plans Revised for Cloister Site
  Blaahhhh. What has been designed belongs in Disney World. Skimping on the design shows. This corner deserves something simple and reserved, as to not compete with the sorrounding historic architecture....
• Commented on Cannon Design Leaving its Mark on Downtown
  What is not being said here that when the down turn happened Cannon gobbled up all of the local work and outsoruced it to its LA office, or DC office etc. leaving local firms to compete for the scraps. These...
• Commented on Cannon Design Leaving its Mark on Downtown
  Except engineers, they don't build anything either. And usually consultants to architects....
• Commented on Construction Watch: The Martin Group @ 477 Main Street
  Last I checked most retofits in downtown (save Canalside & BNMC) have had a residential component (or proposed) to it. Multi-use buildings gaurentees the owner a source of income. The awnings and windows are straight out of 1985, wondering why...
• Commented on Preservation Means Jobs: O'Brien's Quality Service Flooring
  OMFG! It's Carpet Tile! Carpet Tile cuts down on WASTE! It is a GREEN product! Focus on this incredible accomplishment in our fair city....