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• Commented on Niagara Street Gateway
  Maybe they can add more money to the project budget from the $15.5 million in casino money that's being released....
• Commented on Niagara Street Gateway
  It's a shame it's not going to be done as nice as Porter Ave was. They won't be replacing all of the curbs or sidewalks and they won't be adding many new trees or any benches or garbage cans. Hopefully...
• Commented on Apartment Boom Continues with 10 Symphony Circle
  Any news about the recent work Ellicott Development has done in The Antonio (Baker's Shoes building) at 267 Pearl St? It appears they might have renovated two more of the vacant floors into additional apartments and added an office tenant...
• Commented on Time to Eliminate Lackawanna
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackawanna_Blues...
• Commented on The Bailey Avenue Neighborhood is Working Towards a Brighter Future
  In the 1980's and 1990's, that theater was known as the Capri Art Theatre and also the Palace Theatre. All that was shown there was porn movies. The police frequently made public lewdness arrests on the inside....
• Commented on Two Affordable Housing Projects Receive Funding
  Two houses are being renovated at that corner. The corner house there on Prospect, along with the house two lots north of it. There used to be four abandoned homes there, but two of the four were demolished. https://maps.google.com/?ll=42.897278,-78.886733&spn=0.000547,0.000948&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=42.897278,-78.886733&panoid=ra8f9HoeFwsBDoaGNabZ9w&cbp=12,253.77,,0,0.89...
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  "A new brewery could be headed to the downtown Buffalo area. Developer Carl Paladino wants to transform a century-old Perry Street building into a mixed-use structure anchored by market-rate apartments. The Erie County Industrial Development Agency has set a public...
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  Niagara Square and every intersecting street within one block of the square are going to be milled down and repaved soon. http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130417/CITYANDREGION/130419273/1003...
• Commented on Then and Now: Buffalo's Bus Stop
  The restrooms in the bus terminal are one of the few 24 hour public restrooms in downtown Buffalo. I don't know why the city doesn't look into putting in a few of those sidewalk pay toilets like other cities have?...
• Commented on Done Deal: 185 Niagara Street Sold
  This 1966 image from Historic Aerials shows the building I remember on that corner, with a vacant lot to the south of it: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=8E-06&lat=42.8898976077133&lon=-78.8808436888914&year=1966...
• Commented on Done Deal: 185 Niagara Street Sold
  No mention of the expansion and renovation of the Sunoco gas station/mini mart a block away on Niagara at Georgia St? The outside isn't finished yet, but the inside looks really nice. The Subway store in the new addition opened...
• Commented on Done Deal: 185 Niagara Street Sold
  There wasn't a house at this corner before the church was built. Back in the 1980's, I remember there was an old abandoned one or two story commercial building there with recessed storefront entrances that were filled with liquor bottles...
• Commented on Paver aka Puncture Alley
  "It was supposed to be part of a walkway or promenade along the Route 9 - A project which passes by the World Trade Center site in New York City. Surdej says the granite was paid for with funding from...
• Commented on "Pizza pizza!"
  I'm surprised these chain restaurants are opening along Delaware Ave in North Buffalo so quickly. Papa John's opened a store on Delaware just south of Kenmore Ave a few months ago and Five Guys will be opening in the Target...
• Commented on Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Plans October Opening
  "We open Tuesday thru Saturday on March 26th and will be open 7 days a week beginning May 7th." http://www.facebook.com/templetonlanding...
• Commented on LED Street Lighting: Security, Safety and Saving
  "According to Public Works Commissioner Steve Stepniak, The City is eyeing a bid project that would see the installation of LED technology. "At this point National Grid does not offer LEDs," Commissioner Stepniak told me. "That means that The City...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: AM&A's Gets Masonry Catcher
  All of the scaffolding was finally removed around Buffalo Police Headquarters a few months ago. I guess it was there to protect the public from the asbestos that was present in the caulking around the old windows. "The contract with...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: AM&A's Gets Masonry Catcher
  A few photos of the interior from 2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unwertes_leben/sets/72157603910056127/with/2250167746/...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: AM&A's Gets Masonry Catcher
  I got so used to seeing the scaffolding in place that it seemed like it was there all this time. Is it possible the building is in the process of being sold and the return of the scaffolding is the...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: AM&A's Gets Masonry Catcher
  That sidewalk scaffolding has actually been there for a few years. Check out the Google Street View from September 2011: https://maps.google.com/?ll=42.884324,-78.873724&spn=0.00219,0.003793&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=42.884324,-78.873724&panoid=gJPB2imHXL74lTGgbf8_ew&cbp=12,317.92,,0,-1.27...
• Commented on Lake Hotel Project Moving Along
  The new residents of the old Lake Hotel will be just a block away from the new Subway restaurant that's currently under construction in the Sunoco gas station on Niagara St at Georgia St. Sure are a lot of new...
• Commented on Window Watch: Lake Hotel and Horsefeathers Kick Glass
  The new residents of the old Lake Hotel will be just a block away from the new Subway restaurant that's currently under construction in the Sunoco gas station on Niagara St at Georgia St. Sure are a lot of new...
• Commented on Woodson Gardens to be Demolished for Development
  Phase 2 will be a few of the buildings on Niagara St at Carolina St....
• Commented on Woodson Gardens to be Demolished for Development
  Pre-renovation photos: http://www.beimagedblog.com/2010/04/once-upon-time-i-took-photographs-for.html...
• Commented on Woodson Gardens to be Demolished for Development
  There are plans to tear down a group of the Shoreline Apartment buildings at the corner of Niagara St at Carolina St and to replace them with townhouse units....
• Commented on Vineeta International Foods to Strengthen Grant-Ferry's Status as Buffalo's Place for Ethnic Foods and Wares
  The Buffalo Police Department has partnered with http://www.crimereports.com to provide Buffalo's residents and non-residents with timely crime report data in the City of Buffalo....
• Commented on Demolition of Kensington Heights to Continue Through Winter
  A bunch of good ones from 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/glennydriveapartments/...
• Commented on Termini Heading North
  It'll be interesting to see if people will be willing to pay big bucks for an apartment in a building that's next door to an adult theater and adult video store. lol...
• Commented on Please, leave the light on for us...
  They must have just changed that Brisbane Building window recently. It wasn't like that a few days ago when I walked past it. I noticed the first floor recruiting offices for the Navy, Army and Air Force on the Lafayette...
• Commented on Porter Pride
  Whatever happened to the plans to add a take out restaurant to that Citgo station? CITY PLANNING BOARD AGENDA REGULAR MEETING NO. 1047 Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 8:15 AM, ROOM 901 CITY HALL 210 PORTER AVE. Design and site plan...