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• Commented on The Lodge - "The evolution of Chippewa has begun."
  Peter, Best of luck to you are your partners. It seems like you guys are creating a place that will fill a void that exists in Buffalo's nightlife. There aren't many places for late twentysomethings and early thirtysomethings (and older)...
• Commented on Time to Eliminate Lackawanna
  If Buffalo would receive any kind of net gain from this I think it's a no-brainer. Lackawanna is a joke and the article in The News yesterday proved it. Buffalo is a small city anyway based on how much land...
• Commented on Sabres Win Rights to Webster Block
  You're absolutely positively wrong. Like someone else daid, Marine Drive is filled with low income residents - they won't be able to spend enough money to change much. Elk Terminal really isn't downtown and it's a GATED community where everyone...
• Commented on Sabres Win Rights to Webster Block
  Wow. Look, the only way to make any progress is to get people to live down there. I've made the point and given my reasons a bunch of times on here so I don't wanna waste time recanting on why...
• Commented on Sabres Win Rights to Webster Block
  This was a bad decision. The only way to revitalize downtown is to get people to live down there and this has no residential units. I know it's The Sabres and everyone in this town has an almost irrational love...
• Commented on Preservation Ready: Seneca Theater Building
  SB is great because you can get a serious bargain on a house and still live in a safe neighborhood. I lived there for 3 years but will eventually be leaving my apartment in The EV to buy a house...
• Commented on Preservation Ready: Seneca Theater Building
  A post about South Buffalo on Buffalo Rising? I'll be damned! Thanks Steel for highlighting an area of Buffalo that is pretty much never highlighted. Cool fact - Multiple people told me that The Clash played here back in the...
• Commented on Niagara Falls Seeks to Lure Graduates with Student Loan Debt Relief Program
  This isn't news - it's olds. You're about a month too late....
• Commented on Spending $200+ million to fix up an old stadium in the Southtowns is a losing strategy
  I'm gonna resist the temptation to completely bash this post because it seems like the author had good intentions. I could write a novel bashing this though. However, putting the stadium anywhere other than downtown or in the Old First...
• Commented on Infringement Leaves Its Mark
  You're just looking at this the wrong way. It only conveys blight to people who don't understand that it's art. This type of art has been called graffiti and has been associated with tough neighborhoods and that's the only reason...
• Commented on Infringement Leaves Its Mark
  I love the fact that people here are taking the attitude that this would be ok if they liked the way the art looked. Also saying that it isn't art. Has no one ever heard of Duchamp and his work...
• Commented on Infringement Leaves Its Mark
  It's hard to think like a region when the suburbs have experienced explosive growth the past 60 years at the expense of the city and so many suburbanites would be happy just letting the city rot....
• Commented on Infringement Leaves Its Mark
  The fact that everyone hates this graffiti shows that Allentown and Elmwood are not real urban communities anymore they're just gentrified neighborhoods filled with yuppies that might as well be located in the suburbs. Whether or not you think it...
• Commented on City Expects to Select Webster Block Developer in Two Weeks
  All of the people that talk about needing an attraction to get people downtown have it all wrong. It's about getting people to LIVE downtown. Getting people to LIVE there is the only way to have sustained development. How many...
• Commented on Scarf for Scharf's
  I grew up three blocks from here, and when I heard about it closing it really got to me. The reasons previously mentioned for it closing are obvious - it's on a dead end street (South Crossman) which is off...
• Commented on Rededication of the Church of Scientology
  I've been saying this for years. "Scientology is stupid, but I belive in someone who died and then came back to life."...
• Commented on Rededication of the Church of Scientology
  Amen, brother....
• Commented on Creating More Waterfront Opportunities
  I feel like many Buffalonians forget that we're a Great Lakes town and that we have so much water around us. I completely agree - give people a way to get out on the water without having to drop thousands...
• Commented on R and R Pedicabs
  This is a good idea - hands down....
• Commented on Rededication of the Church of Scientology
  I feel like the only people that drank more bong water than you are the Scientologists....
• Commented on Sabres and Ellicott Development Face Off for Webster Block
  I'm happy that Terry wants to build a rink I just don't want it there - I'm happy we agree on that. I don't know who owns those lots and I understand that a city owned lot is easier to...
• Commented on Sabres and Ellicott Development Face Off for Webster Block
  This ice rink idea is no different from the other silver bullet ideas that have failed. Think the Metro Rail, the convention center or the Main Place mall. I feel like people are forgetting about how important mixed-use development is...
• Commented on Sabres and Ellicott Development Face Off for Webster Block
  By the way genius, a residence doesn't mean a single-family home. It can be an apartment on the 15th floor of Paladino's proposed building....
• Commented on Sabres and Ellicott Development Face Off for Webster Block
  What I'm talking about is building a thriving area that has action all the time. Hell, tourists come from other cities just to see Elmwood. We don't need a silver bullet we need a thriving neighborhood. The only differences here...
• Commented on Sabres and Ellicott Development Face Off for Webster Block
  We've been relying on projects to draw people to visit downtown for years and it's done nothing. We need to have enough residences down there as possible. The only way to revive downtown is to get people to actually LIVE...
• Commented on Sabres and Ellicott Development Face Off for Webster Block
  Yeah, I know. But while I think a behemoth arena fits over there, it's too far from all the action to work for mixed-use development. I would really like to see something done with the shores of the Buffalo River....
• Commented on Sabres and Ellicott Development Face Off for Webster Block
  The Sabres idea has many reasons why it makes sense. However, I don't think it fits. We need for mixed-use development like Paladino's idea downtown. I honestly believe that a big rink would be ugly and would be one giant...
• Commented on Live at Larkin
  I just have to say that I can't believe people are actually talking about moving TO the Larkin District not FROM it. Great news all around quite possibly the most inspiring development yet. I don't think anyone thought Larkin could...
• Commented on Buffalo: A Smarter, Wealthier City
  Just a tip and I'm not trying to give you a hard time or anything, but if you break up long posts into separate paragraphs people are much more likely to read it. Just sayin'....
• Commented on Elmwood Beverage Center
  It's new business! Be happy about it! I can't think of one beer store I've ever seen, anywhere I've been, that has had potted plants in front of it. Sometimes I can't believe some of the things you yuppies say....