RobH

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• Commented on Buffalo's Outer Harbor: Candidate for an Urban Cable Car?
  If you were proposing the world's longest cableway, stretching from north of downtown Niagara Falls, right over the American Falls to Goat Island, then along the river to downtown Buffalo, I could probably get excited about it. THAT is something...
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  I see it the same way. The biggest demographic group investing in housing are middle class couples starting a family, and their primary concern is the school district. They avoid the City of Buffalo like it is the plague. Once...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  Formal engagement with whom?...
• Commented on Preservation, it's not just a city thing.
  Its infinitesimally more roads and utilities. How many miles of subdivision roads do you think are built in Erie County each year? 3? 4? 5? Adding to a base of thousands, at a rate of what, 0.1% per year? Who...
• Commented on Preservation, it's not just a city thing.
  Yes, I'm serious. Reconstructing a state highway that has been in existence since the 1920's and in that same location since the 1950's is hardly adding new infrastructure. It's telling that its the only example you can come up with....
• Commented on Preservation, it's not just a city thing.
  Just where is all this additional infrastructure being constructed in Erie County? There hasn't been a new county road constructed in decades! This is an imaginary problem in the Buffalo area....
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  I will charitably assume what you were unable to articulate was something along the lines of this: "I foresee more profitable uses pushing out some of the gay bars along Allen. Perhaps some incentives can be put in place to...
• Commented on Great Potential for Residential Church Conversion is Squandered by Owners Unwilling to Sell
  This church is right in the middle of 7 lots/properties that Trinity Baptist owns, from 31 to 49 Spruce St. They also own 284 Walnut, a vacant lot directly behind 33 Spruce....
• Commented on National Register Historic District Proposed for the Old First Ward
  "historic character that makes it so charming" Could there possibly be more telephone poles and wires than the block displayed in this picture? Charming indeed....
• Commented on McGuire Development to Share Plans for Sheehan Site This Friday
  Ye Olde 1979....
• Commented on A petition for municipal sidewalk snowplowing in Buffalo
  The City itself owns 4000 properties/vacant lots scattered all over. Is it clearing the sidewalks in front of all of these?...
• Commented on What Pride?
  Three seasons in a row now, the team has started dreadfully. They'd lost 6 out of 7 games coming into Thursday's game, a game which they never led. The GM gets a contract extension, and apparently the head coach has...
• Commented on Let Me Clarify
  Sounds like the makings of a mayoral campaign platform....
• Commented on Let Me Clarify
  And your proposal to fix it is...... ??...
• Commented on Perfetto!
  Entering the building from Washington Street, my first impression was that I was in the wrong place because there was not a soul to be seen. If they are not going to staff the back door, where most everyone arriving...
• Commented on Sunday Service
  Explain to me then, how with this veritable beehive of activity, a large church building on a major thoroughfare sat unused and boarded up for years, then had a fire in April 2012, but managed to escape the preservation community's...
• Commented on Sunday Service
  I think, Steel, that you can count on nobody to initiate this or any other plan. Buffalo's preservation community appears to be amply supplied with hand-wringing bloggers, but painfully devoid of leadership. Cue up the wrecking balls....
• Commented on Sunday Service
  There are not an infinite number of churches in the City of Buffalo. It is not an insurmountable task to identify and assign some preliminary assessment (I.e. occupied or not, visibly deteriorated or not) to each of them. Then initiate...
• Commented on Tearing Down a Neighborhood Without Giving A Damn
  2013 is a Buffalo mayoral election year. Move back and run for the office to call attention to this issue. Lamenting a building's destruction websites is clearly ineffective. Unless its only important that OTHER people act, in which case, lament...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Delaware and Virginia
  I assume because, as per the article, the historic brick carriage house on Halloway Alley is being renovated into 3 apartments....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Cynthia Gardens
  How thoughtful of the project to leave room for these LOW INCOME tenants to PARK THEIR CARS....
• Commented on Cities: Rather Than Patronizing Young People, Give Them What They Ask For
  "young people who live in Cleveland were expressing their preferences very clearly: they want a dense, walkable downtown -- not a car repository for suburbanites." In New York, they eliminated car traffic from Times Square. In Buffalo, we're spending millions...
• Commented on LA Fitness to open at Elmwood and Hertel Center
  Irondequoit and Henrietta are "Greater Buffalo"?...
• Commented on Annie E. Casey Foundation Commits up to $6 million to Buffalo Promise Neighborhood
  What? It offends you that $6 million for the University District gets no posts, while a liquor store in the Elmwood Village allowing dogs inside gets 24?...
• Commented on Preservation: A Discussion Worth Having
  Clearly there is no obvious use for this building immediately, as is. But I can't help but wonder, in 50 years when we are all dead or well on our way, will people here appreciate the 50 year old apartment...
• Commented on Catholic Health Admin Center Design Released
  A building of this size is sure to have an employee cafeteria, limiting spillover effects on the surrounding area. Still, if its enough to get something to open in Genesee Gateway, its a positive....
• Commented on Madonna's: Our Lady of Pasta
  Anyone have knowledge of why K Gallagher's closed?...
• Commented on NWE Now Powering the FNC
  NYS Department of State Division of Corporations Entity Information The information contained in this database is current through September 25, 2012. Selected Entity Name: NEW WAVE ENERGY CORP Selected Entity Status Information Current Entity Name: NEW WAVE ENERGY CORP...
• Commented on NWE Now Powering the FNC
  I hope there will be a series of articles like this. I can't wait to find out who will supply floor wax and paper towels to the First Niagara Center. And by the way, New Wave Energy is a Florida...
• Commented on Spending $200+ million to fix up an old stadium in the Southtowns is a losing strategy
  A huge stadium and associated parking lots on the sinking, swampy, flood-prone soil of Amherst. What could possibly go wrong?...