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• Commented on Real Estate Rumor: Delaware North Moving to Delaware and Chippewa
  That's why they're merely "real estate rumors." I wouldn't get too excited until an official announcement is made, and maybe some renderings or conceptual drawings are released. Even then, I usually don't get too excited until financing is secured....
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  I guess you could say it has a certain industrial office park chicness to it, and with the Perry Projects right around the corner, the location could also provide some inner city urban excitement!...
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  Hinterlands?...
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  Yikes? That's considered downtown?...
• Commented on Part of Buffalo Billion to Assist with Parkway Removal in Falls
  Mislocating funds? No, not if you can think regionally. Many of the visitors to "Buffalo" are really only there for Niagara Falls....
• Commented on Then and Now: Buffalo's Bus Stop
  Well, OK, the transportation center isn't located exactly on the metrorail route. It is two blocks away, and it's true that Buffalo has some pretty harsh weather. But what about everything else I said? I don't think we should compare...
• Commented on Then and Now: Buffalo's Bus Stop
  I can remember when GreyHound had a ticket counter and Blue Bird had its own. Added to that, the NFTA city buses had their own section, which was really bustling. Then there was a taxi stand on Division Street, just...
• Commented on Deaconess Hospital Complex Comes Down, Deaconess Heights to Rise in its Place
  I don't care to see quaint single family homes replacing more of what's left of Buffalo's urbanity....
• Commented on Back Lot Bash Comes to Buffalo for Pride 2013!
  Depends on how many people leave their credit cards at Roxy's....
• Commented on Buffalo Then and Now: Shiny New Buildings
  I think it means there was a lot more going on downtown in the 1960s, and there were a lot more people who lived in the city, than today....
• Commented on HARBORcenter Officially Underway- Design Evolving
  I agree. At least now it ought to fit right in with the other buildings around it, such as the redo of the formerly mid-century Dulski Building that now looks like an Amherst Business Park "tower."...
• Commented on HARBORcenter Officially Underway- Design Evolving
  So...construction is underway, but they don't even have finished renderings yet? They "have stressed that this is not the final design...they are expected to release final renderings within the coming weeks as it is still currently a work in progress."...
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  Being an international playboy is a "chosen lifestyle" or maybe being a health & fitness guru. Being gay, however, isn't a lifestyle. Oh, and you should be grateful to those gay dive bars on the end of Allen Street. For...
• Commented on When do we think big picture urban design?
  Speaking to my original point that Buffalo will in fact be impacted by the sequester, another headline in The Buffalo News (today)... SEQUESTER CUTS HAMSTRING BUFFALO'S FEDERAL COURTS, Reduced criminal trials, furloughs planned...
• Commented on When do we think big picture urban design?
  Buffalo News Headline on 4/5/13: SEQUESTER EXPECTED TO COST ROSWELL PARK $6 MILLION IN RESEARCH FUNDS. Not even a month since they ran the headline: SEQUESTRATION CUTS GO INTO EFFECT, HAVE LITTLE LOCAL IMPACT....
• Commented on Farmer Pirates announces plan for HSBC building
  OK, but seriously, this is a joke, right?...
• Commented on Sprawl-tastic Grab Bag #2
  I like the high speed highway through the park, because it makes getting to the I-190 much faster from my house near Beard Ave and Parker. Without it, I could take Amherst Street or Hertel all the way down, I...
• Commented on Construction Watch: 476 Rhode Island Gets Windowed
  Does the new, opening-soon restaurant have a name?...
• Commented on Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Plans October Opening
  I've made it out there in the world enough to know that a lake and a river are two different things. Knucklehead....
• Commented on Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Plans October Opening
  The only thing? How about the Genesee River running right through their downtown, complete with cascading waterfalls? That always makes me completely jealous of Rochester....
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Because some people value pretty parks. Others value short commutes. We have both here. Some of us are happy, no matter how much you tell us we're not....
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  There are not just the two groups that you identified; there's a third. You seem to think it's only people who love and cherish the city and its parks, and then those people who don't give a rat's ass. You...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  His reaction is a positive one. He is saying he likes it. Why do you have to work so hard to convince him that he's miserable about it?...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Seems like his comment was directed at you, Steel, not the entire City of Buffalo. The way I read it, sounds like you should put him down as telling you to Ef off....
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  From my view, the fact that so many people use this "super highway" justifies its existence. On the other hand, if the expressway was built at a time when Buffalo was anticipating growth in population and jobs, then perhaps it...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  Though, not a scientific study, I have never met a 16-year old who didn't want to drive. Maybe that's just my experience, but it makes me question this very much....
• Commented on When do we think big picture urban design?
  I think you're missing one of the points I was trying to make about the sequester. Whether or not drastic cutbacks on Federal spending will have a DIRECT impact on the Buffalo region remains to be seen. There is also...
• Commented on When do we think big picture urban design?
  Nondefense discretionary spending will be cut by between 5 percent and 6 percent, and you want to know how that would affect stadium funding? Because government budgets are connected to one another on all levels. If the federal government stops...
• Commented on When do we think big picture urban design?
  As much as I hate to admit it, I attend to agree with you. The word "sequestration" tends to come to mind an awful lot lately. I loved the headline in the Buffalo News last week that said, "Sequestration Cuts...
• Commented on Craziness: $200 Million Parking Plan Floated
  I think this is the beginning of a good idea. I'd like it better if the plan didn't end at a parking facility, but continued past it. Maybe crossing back under 190, on Louisianna or Hamburg Street, and connecting the...