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• Commented on Buffalo History: An Urban Battlefield?
  That may have been true back in 1901 but that was a long time ago. Today, like Dallas & JFK, we have a museum to TRoosevelt and McKinley, as well as monuments. Major pieces of the 1901 should be rebuilt...
• Commented on NFTA Planning Process
  Well according to this we should see a major justification for the Amherst Corridor and the Airport Corridor which I think are imperative to Buffalos future!...
• Commented on Buffalo History: An Urban Battlefield?
  The city needs to commemorate the war of 1812 with things that are permanent. Like the justification for rebuilding Fort Porter and rebuilding one of Adm Perrys warships that fought the Battle of Lake Erie. Its one thing to commemorate...
• Commented on Cool Buffalo Real Estate Listing of the Week
  It still begs the question why more homes like this cant be built within the city of Buffalo. 4 bedroom homes are relatively common in the suburbs and this is a brick tudor which isnt exactly difficult to build...all the...
• Commented on Growing Firm Moving to Cherry Street Project
  This city of Buffalo is doing this arse backwards...it keeps wanting to build housing and not just any housing but suburban housing within the city using state and federal grants. The city needs to bring jobs back into the city,...
• Commented on Growing Firm Moving to Cherry Street Project
  Look you can make it personal or you can mince words but the core of what I have been saying is that the city needs to support if not subsidize urban office parks that can be contained within the existing...
• Commented on Support For High Speed Rail Connecting Upstate Cities
  Dear timatbuffalo, unfortunately the citizens of Buffalo arent given a line item budget to approve, the citizens of Buffalo do not control city hall or its organizations, etc. Buffalonians have had no luck in boosting city inspections, changing laws to...
• Commented on Growing Firm Moving to Cherry Street Project
  The Chase Bag Factory building in Riverside will be redeveloped more easily than any building on the eastside. Termini is absolutely correct, if we keep demolishing then we lose the ability to attract these companies and their employees back to...
• Commented on Growing Firm Moving to Cherry Street Project
  The buildings adjacent to this building have been demolished. How nice would it be to use those historic tax credits to extend that brick building to encompass the entire city block. There is plenty of room for parking across the...
• Commented on Where's the Campaign?
  Very few of Buffalo's developments and job creation can be traced to Brown even though he takes credit for it and conveniently shows up for picture and media. On the plus side, City Hall is run better than Masiello but...
• Commented on MSN Suggests a Buffalo Getaway
  My biggest suggestion for the Albright Knox is to stop hiding its classical collection. Find a space to display it Create another small museum if necessary because there is no museum in Buffalo specializing in period and antiquities related to...
• Commented on Angels
  No matter where I go in this great country of ours...no city in the nation compares to the majesty of our churchs. It is unfortunate that like so much of our Buffalo legacy...this to is ignored by so many You...
• Commented on Support For High Speed Rail Connecting Upstate Cities
  Why did it take so long for Brown to get onboard? Brown is of the same clothe as Buffalo State's Howard. A do nothing who is in their position only because of race and looks to the media to wallpaper...
• Commented on NYS Historic Preservation Tax Credits at Work: Putting a Face on the Projects
  Odd, the cooperage in the above picture doesnt look like the cooperate in the other pictures? I wonder if its from the other side? looks like a cool building....
• Commented on Historic Residential Rehab Program Detailed
  Quick stop the demolitions!!!! So is it me or would someone like to a list of historic neighborhoods and a map with shaded boundaries. So it is me or should we be creating additional historic districts of our pre-depression (1929)housing...
• Commented on Support For High Speed Rail Connecting Upstate Cities
  If there were an inter-urban or frequent inter-city commuter rail/high speed rail.... If the ticket price were say $35 and the difference in airfares between the same flight in Rochester versus Buffalo was greater than $35...WHY WOULD ROCHESTER NEED TO...
• Commented on Support For High Speed Rail Connecting Upstate Cities
  Where is Brown's voice on expanding the light rail to the airport and UB? Well, suppose we should be greatful .... he supports high speed rail...
• Commented on Important Moment for West Valley Nuclear Waste
  All of the US nuclear waste is the fault of a decision made by former President Jimmy Carter who mandated the reprocessing of nuclear waste illegal. Compared to other energy sources...relatively little uranium is actually burned in the process and...
• Commented on Theological Thursday: Hybrid Theology
  Aside from federal free trade and foreign policy Aside from Albany and unions, insider business deals and political patronage Buffalo Niagara has an enormous amount of power to remake its future and had it for quite a while. For example:...
• Commented on Theological Thursday: Hybrid Theology
  Actually not completely true in the future is always unwritten. NYS is ruled by 2 forces: Wall Street money changes and unions. -Wall Street may not be coming back as we know it -California proves unions like all socialist/communist structures...
• Commented on Colonial Circle: Traffic Control or Industrial Vandalism?
  Yeah, I have to agree If there is that much room to paint wide lines then replace it with a grass island...
• Commented on "Ode To A Buffalo Bartender"
  PS: A message to Buffalos budding architects and designers. This building is classic Buffalo. If your designing infill, then why couldnt you fill an entire city block with a building like this...an alley with a garage in the rear of...
• Commented on "Ode To A Buffalo Bartender"
  We really need to set up a citywide fund to relocate buildings like this....its a beautiful building and Id consider it historic. However, this building wont last on Main Street as it continues to develop. Relocating it to the eastside...
• Commented on Penthouse Sells in Waterfront Place
  Its the townhome units that will be scaled back...not the next tower. I cant wait for the next tower to get built. However, Id like to see these Apartment Towers along the Niagara Expressway on the Niagara Street side of...
• Commented on ECHDC Board Meeting: Aud Site, Inner Harbor Bridge and More
  Id love to see the Marine Drive Apartments go but that is very unlikely. Remember the Management Clause that gave all the property management golden parachutes and allowed them to take the entire reserve fund for the buildings in severance...
• Commented on The Real Picture: Is it Time?
  The Genessee Gateway picture is awesome! It really puts Genessee back into its original place next to Main Street. No one is saying that the Atrium or the Cenvention Center or the City Court Parking lot need to be demolished...
• Commented on The Real Picture: Is it Time?
  Merely look at the fate of the Genessee Street Building to be demolished in the previous post. The fate of that building and many others is an example of what the Hyatt Atrium and the Convention Center have done to...
• Commented on The Red Mark of Death
  The fate of this building and many others is an example of what the Hyatt Atrium and the Convention Center have done to the eastside. What exactly? By blocking Genessee Street from McKinley Circle, the Waterfront, Elmwood, Delaware, Pearl, Franklin,...
• Commented on Statler Hotel: Countdown to the Auction Block
  Andrew, I dont post it that much...and even if I do...good ideas take repetition....
• Commented on Statler Hotel: Countdown to the Auction Block
  It is not just the Tax Credit for Historic Properties although it helps. It is not that its the National Register of Historic Places but it helps. What will peak the interest of potential buyers is the completion of the...