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• Commented on The Hamlin Park Neighborhood: A Strong Community and One You Should be Seriously Considering
  The city could be doing some home buying programs with the local college grads. Collaborating with companies downtown to offer incentives to employees who buy in certain neighborhoods. Honestly, yes i better ideas but they are not anything most people...
• Commented on The Hamlin Park Neighborhood: A Strong Community and One You Should be Seriously Considering
  This could be said of Love Joy, Riverside, and Parts of South Buffalo. These have been stable middle class neighborhoods for quite some time, but they are on the fringe of some neighborhoods that have been gutted. I never hear...
• Commented on Luminous Shots of Grain Elevators in 'The Atlantic Cities'
  I love this plan, i don't want to sound negative. But this is only part of the reuse to me. A success would be each of these structures supporting a function beyond being a canvas for these light. I think...
• Commented on Rustbelt Almanac: Help This Startup to Start up.
  While I don't necessarily disagree with your statement, i like that people have started embraced it. I think we can defy the image and expectations that the rest of the country and the world have for us. At a certain...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  I always think its funny when people try to act as though promoting a healthy urban environment in "clinging to the past". The way its currently accepted to develop properties is into its 7th decade. We now have lots of...
• Commented on Micro-Apartments @ The Arcade
  I've suggested this for Main Place mall on Buffalo Rising before. I think it could work and you could do some cool things with the space. Turn what used to be the main corridor in the mall into an inside...
• Commented on Owner of Bethlehem Steel Agreed to Sell Hours Before Demolition Began
  "Hope" is the key word there, there haven't been any plans shown. I "hope" that the empty field that is probably left bothers you less than this building did. The flip side of your money argument is the owner should...
• Commented on Owner of Bethlehem Steel Agreed to Sell Hours Before Demolition Began
  I mean at this point all I can do is laugh. You have a city with literally nothing going for it. People have 3 reasons to go there, 2 of them are restaurants. Here is something that if they fixed...
• Commented on Knock that crap down, they say.
  I find the people who talk like this are the same people who, lament being "stuck" in Buffalo, while talking up places like Raleigh. When I asked them what is so great about these places the answer I usually get...
• Commented on Construction Watch: HARBORcenter
  OK fair enough, I thought it sounded like that what you where sort of suggesting. I guess since i was a kid I was always impressed with the engineering aspect of HSBC straddling Main st. I also like how it...
• Commented on Construction Watch: HARBORcenter
  What is the ideal city? Annapolis, Savannah, perhaps a quaint Vermont village? Sometimes I feel the push here is for high density low scale, which maybe cool for Elmwood, but this is downtown! We want to be the commercial center...
• Commented on Webster Block Plan Advances; Alternative Vision Floated
  While I applaud Tim Tielman's general passion and commitment to preservation, I don't really get this design or his stance. They aren't knocking anything down for this project, they are infilling a surface lot, which is a win right? Also...
• Commented on MLK splash pad nearing completion
  This is one of the more disappointing dialogues I've ever seen on Buffalorising. MLK park has some great pavilions and some of the nicest tennis courts in the city. I've played there many times instead of watching others play on...
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  I find your whole logic for this interesting. Development happens because of "growth". WNY hasn't experience any "growth" in decades, but it has experienced exponential development. Also places like Portland Org. has used regional smart growth initiative to make transit...
• Commented on My Favorite Buildings: Castle Corner
  Good luck with that! The guy who owns this is a classic slum lord. He owns that building and the red one next to it. Hes content doing the bare minimum to keep it up to section 8. He doesn't...
• Commented on Jays Swing Surprising Deal with Marlins
  I might care or support the Jays if they made more of an effort to be Buffalo's team. I know they are going to be our parent club now, but I'd like to see real games down here a few...
• Commented on A Tale of 2 Cities and Their Markets: Part 2
  One thing about putting a market downtown is that it doesn't seem to allow for a "food district" as being described here to take shape as easily. Low rent, space and easy access for trucks etc. seem to be important...
• Commented on Proposed Main/High Office Building May Grow, Add Hotel Rooms
  This is true, I think a lot of these smaller mixed use plans though are basically servicing the other uses of the building, I don't think thats a bad thing. 60 rooms here 90 rooms there, they add up though,...
• Commented on Proposed Main/High Office Building May Grow, Add Hotel Rooms
  Our hotel occupancy is still higher or on par with the national average. We also still struggle to provide enough lodging when hosting major events. Business Travelers to downtown are often not able to find rooms when another large event...
• Commented on For Buffalo's Grain Elevators, an Experimental Second Act
  I don't know the feasibility of this as I am not an engineer. However for this particular elevator I have this vision to turn it into a recreational facility. Take half of the elevators and line them with the rock...
• Commented on A Tale of Two Buildings and a Parking Lot
  More friends, like on facebook? J/K I would be interested to see the break down here of activities. How many are tied to raising kids, may skew the numbers a bit. But I don't dispute that there are happy, engaged,...
• Commented on A Tale of Two Buildings and a Parking Lot
  The progressiveness of the site comes from trying to change the status quo. The idea that causes these exact scenarios where people feel they need a new build in Clarence 30 minutes from the city core that further strains the...
• Commented on A Tale of Two Buildings and a Parking Lot
  Sprawl has actually already declared war on Farms. They drive up the assesed value of land in towns near to the central core, causing taxes to rise to the point were it is cost prohibitive to farm on the land...
• Commented on A Tale of Two Buildings and a Parking Lot
  You can actually make a pretty compelling case that sprawl is subsidized based on utilities and roads alone, but you don't want to believe that so it doesn't really matter. Of course you can also find heavily urban subsidies. These...
• Commented on Model Homes at Colvin Estates Nearly Ready- Nearly Half of Lots Spoken For
  There are many places in the suburbs with to small of yards to enjoy the benefits too. New construction is definately a draw. Saying I bought a new house is some sort of status symbol, regardless of size or location....
• Commented on Fairfield Library Conversion to Start This Summer
  I live in the "Vermont Triangle" neighborhood now. Not far from Urban Roots....
• Commented on Fairfield Library Conversion to Start This Summer
  I didn't attend any of the meetings, and have recently bought a place on the West Side (another fringe hood and street with its very own set of challenges). My comment was really my oustider point of view for just...
• Commented on Barstool Prophet: Embrace Buf-ronto
  You're allowed to say "bitching" in articles on here now? Awesome! Joking aside you are spot on with the Green Bay comparision. Especially with the fact that the Giants and Jets saw what the Bills were trying to do, become...
• Commented on Fairfield Library Conversion to Start This Summer
  I see your point, and that of the neighborhood association. I however tend to disagree with the assesment that a single family residence is a better option. I'm pretty familiar with this area living right over the tracks from the...
• Commented on Demolition of Bethlehem Steel Administration Building Halted
  How can a mayor with virtually no uncontaminated, clear land in his city embrace this kind of development and not reuse as a model. Doesn't he understand that a previously undeveloped parcel in Lancaster or insert other town here will...