RPreskop

Recent Actions

• Commented on HARBORcenter Officially Underway- Design Evolving
  Regardless whether the luxury hotel tower has a curved glass facade and the retail shops and hockey rinks are clad in red brick, this project is a definite aesthetic improvement over the hideous, asphalt parking lot that previously covered this...
• Commented on Façade Work at 686 Main Street Proceeding
  I was wondering what was going to happen to this long vacant, historic landmark building. This is great news because this is a very beautiful, old commercial building that is just right addaptive re-use and restoration. Now if only the...
• Commented on Swan Street Project Incentives Approved by ECIDA
  This is an outstanding rehabilitation project. Both Swan Street buildings are beautiful and well worth preserving and renovating into new uses. The Bike Shop from East Aurora setting up shop in the historic brick building is a definite win-win. It...
• Commented on Gallery District Gets Bike-Friendly
  It is terrible. Bicycles belong on the street, not on the sidewalk. There needs to be more marked bike lanes on our city streets. Motorists need to be compelled to share the roads with cyclists face heavy fines including suspension...
• Commented on Construction Watch: 600 Block Re-Traffic
  This whole idea of putting cars back on Main Street is ridiculous and short sighted. The pedestrian mall is just starting to live up to its potential and all of a sudden, this costly, foolhardy approach to put noisy, air...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  This is a great development for a long empty, high profile downtown site. More workers downtown means more foot traffic during the day. Catholic Health's investment in this area of downtown could help spur more development along the Genessee Street...
• Commented on Development Road Trip: Ithaca
  In order to encourage Americans to live in higher density communities, we have to change transportation priorities that favor highways and automobiles over public transit, cycling, and walking. We need to change economic development patterns and policies that favor inefficient,...
• Commented on March Against Monsanto - Buffalo
  I strongly support this planned march against Monsanto. It is time to expose and even bring down this greedy, St Louis based corporation and make life miserable and unprofitable for it. Monsanto has really crossed the line by thinking that...
• Commented on Dream or Nightmare: Stadium Complex Proposed for Outer Harbor
  The Buffalo Bills football stadium rightfully belongs in the suburbs period. It does not belong in the city especially the downtown and waterfront areas. We don't need another underutilized, costly architectural monstrosity in the city of Buffalo. The Bills belong...
• Commented on Professional Team to Explore Rehab of Bethlehem Steel Building as Citizens Await Lackawanna Court Ruling
  This building is too far gone to be rehabilitated. Hopefully the courts will overturn the decision to stop demolition and clearence of this decrepit eyesore and tell the Lackawanna Industrial Heritage Committee that they have nothing to say in the...
• Commented on The Heart Bomb 2013
  I was glad to see that old apartment building on Niagara Street to be targeted by these young preservationists. That building unfortunately suffered a fire on its top floor in one of the apartments where there was a vicious argument...
• Commented on BYP Uses Fundraiser Money to Secure Historic East Side Theater
  Now this is an old building that should be saved and renovated. I was wondering what happened to the plans to rehabilitate and reuse this historic theater on Broadway. After the news article about it in 2008, nothing more was...
• Commented on America's Oldest Cities
  This is a flawed, inaccurate study. No way is Buffalo older than New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore. Those four cities are not only larger but also much older in history, housing stock, and infrastructure. As for the suburbs having...
• Commented on Bethlehem Steel Demolition Halted Due to Illegally Issued Demo Permit
  This is absolutely ridiculous. The abandoned, deteriorated Bethlehem Administration Building should be demolished and clear out as soon as possible. This lawsuit and court order temporarily stopping demolition is unnecessary and unwarranted. Where the hell where all these historic preservationists...
• Commented on Statler sits pretty in Buffalo... for now.
  I doubt that Mr. Croce has the money and the professional knowhow to rehabilitate a large building like the Statler. If business/civic leaders in Buffalo had any brains, they should have tried to attract the developers and investors who successfully...
• Commented on Ellicott Development Eyes Waterfront Village Project
  I agree with the above comments about the Adams Mark Hotel. That is probably the ugliest and one of the most poorly designed and built buildings in our city. It is a nine story, suburban style piece of garbage that...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: AM&A's Gets Masonry Catcher
  The AM&As building complex is becoming an increasingly negative liability for downtown. It seems like this deteriorated department store is just not economically viable to renovate and reuse. All past attempts to renovate this complex have been total failures. Perhaps...
• Commented on Buffalo Can Learn from Rochester's Monroe Avenue
  It looks like Monroe Avenue in Rochester is a very vibrant, well kept and interesting street. Isn't Monroe Avenue part of NY Route 31?...
• Commented on Webster Block Plan Advances; Alternative Vision Floated
  This alternative plan by Tim Tielman is totally idiotic and too based in the past. This man opposes even removing an ugly asphalt parking lot. The preferred Harborcenter plan is definitely the best and most workable plan for the empty...
• Commented on 224 Hudson, One To Watch.
  Lets face harsh reality, people don't go to church anymore like they did back in the 1950s and earlier. The US like other first world countries has become much more secular and less religious. This is why so many...
• Commented on The NHL May Have Been Quiet...
  The Harborcenter is a great project and the best thing to ever happen to the long empty Webster block. We need more high rise buildings downtown especially mixed use complexes like this proposed by the Sabres. As for a small...
• Commented on Common Council Items of Interest February 5, 2013
  We do not need a new football stadium. The whole idea of a outer harbor stadium and convention center is a unrealistic pie in the sky idea. The Buffalo Bills can stay in their current home in Orchard Park where...
• Commented on Citizens for Regional Transit to Mourn Loss of Theater Station
  I think this whole idea of putting cars back on Main Street should be abandoned completely. We have more than enough vehicular roadways downtown. Theater Station should remain open. The downtown retail core was already dying well before the transit...
• Commented on A petition for municipal sidewalk snowplowing in Buffalo
  Hey the government plows and cleans out the streets and highways for motor vehicles. Why not plow and clean out the sidewalks for pedestrians. After all, the sidewalks are public right of way so it should be a municipal responsibility...
• Commented on What if Buffalo got its own state?
  Would the new state of Buffalo include the neighboring city of Lackawanna? A more realistic idea is both Buffalo and Lackawanna being separated from Erie County and made a county of their own. I am sure the suburban and exurban...
• Commented on Rust Belt Books: Following the winds of change
  I hate to see Rust Belt Books leave their Allentown location. They fit in so well in that dense, historic community. It is such a warm, inviting little bookstore. It is too bad that they have outgrown their Allen Street...
• Commented on Family Dollar Planned on Main Street
  Another cheesy, ubiquitous dollar store. Big deal....
• Commented on Let Me Clarify
  This building is an aesthetically ugly scar on probably the most historic part of Pearl Street. Unfortunately, it has been stripped of all its architectural beauty and dignity so either a complete reconstruction of the exterior similar to the successful...
• Commented on Trader Joe's is Coming. No it's Not. Well, Maybe it is.
  Trader Joe's is exactly what Buffalo and WNY needs. It will mean more competition which can improve the health of our local economy. I would love to see Trader Joe's locate either downtown or in the Elmwood Village or in...
• Commented on Higgins Pushes for Skyway Removal
  Congressman Higgens is dead wrong for pressuring the NYSDOT to remove the skyway because at the present time, the downtown waterfront is safe and accessible from downtown. The heavy traffic of NY Route 5 is separated and kept away from...