JohnQBuffalo

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• Commented on Are Networks or Size More Important to Urban Success?
  Buffalo does a very poor job of networking on an industrial and professional level. Oh the banks and insurance companies are well represented in Buffalo but they dont leverage banking and insurance into spin-off economic development like technology. If one...
• Commented on Oktoberfest in the Cobblestone District
  Now I know why there were so many German Irish babies born in July. (tee hee)....
• Commented on The Human Assets of a City
  No Grad94 either your not reading or your not understanding. There is great merit in a social safety net: Unemployment Insurance, Job retraining, Social Security, Disability, Healthcare. Let me say it in few words. 1) Its not possible to pay...
• Commented on Shipping Up to Boston; Shipping Back to Buffalo
  I do agree with you that Buffalo may compare closer to say Philadelphia, Baltimore and DC than Boston or NYC because we have more of the mid-atlantic attributes that you describe. Those traits are often ascribed to Ben Franklin a...
• Commented on World Canals Conference Comes to Buffalo
  This is an opportunity of good will and big picture which Buffalo in its negativity and myopia will probably scr*w up and ignore. What do I mean? This is an opportunity for Buffalo to think about its neighbors in the...
• Commented on Kickstarting arts community needs
  Slow rolling, you are correct about the sciences and that supports my opinion about trades and vocations, technology, etc. I may have mentioned vocations but we arent talking about turning kids into rocket scientists or physicist. Vocations can feed everything...
• Commented on The Human Assets of a City
  oh and much of Detroits successes came from 2 things: 1) a limit of auto imports from foreign nations. Check films from 1970 and prior. 99% of the cars were american made. 2) the rest of the world's manufacturing capabilities...
• Commented on The Human Assets of a City
  ah yes, welcome to the united soviet socialist world of Grad94. The answer to your question is those policies didnt exist when Detroit was successful: 1) The railroad unions were powerful enough to call a national strike and shut down...
• Commented on Kickstarting arts community needs
  Once again I know I will catch flak from this but where are the priorities. Yes these are kids but when I was a kid I could not wait to pick up a ruler, a tape measure, a saw, a...
• Commented on The Human Assets of a City
  Wow a video that really says nothing about why Detroit became a failed city, why it continues to be a failed city and why signs of life in Detroit are little more than using Elmwood to define a renaissance for...
• Commented on Shocker: Paladino Wins Republican Nomination
  and how do you define racism, sexism, etc. See the problem with you and others like you jag is that you can hate anything that you disagree with and you can be a victim of every insult and slight. Today...
• Commented on Making a List, Checking it Twice
  I dont have the server space and I am not a non-profit. Perhaps the better question is how can we get city hall building inspections pay for the server space or the Preservation Socity...though I personally think that its in...
• Commented on Mixed-Use Project Planned for Ornate 678 Main Street
  Thank you for the constructive comment. I appreciate it. The type of work I do forces me to be somewhat wordy because it requires a step by step logical approach to make a case why...so I state an opinion and...
• Commented on Making a List, Checking it Twice
  Google has street and satellite pictures so no one needs to assume that responsibility Real Estate websites and public property records which assessments are based such as sqft, how many bedrooms, bathrooms, etc can also be linked in. Wikipedia proves...
• Commented on Mixed-Use Project Planned for Ornate 678 Main Street
  Its an really beautiful building but as is true for many downtown and Main Street Buildings. They were meant for office or retail which means that the interior of often a generic space and all the money is in the...
• Commented on Shocker: Paladino Wins Republican Nomination
  Buffalo's in your face Palladino has gone further than Rochester's play nice corporate Golisano. Hey, Id rather have a Golisano or a Palladino than a Sheldon Silver, Bloomberg or Cuomo....
• Commented on Shocker: Paladino Wins Republican Nomination
  If you want a model for Carl Palladino as Governor then look no further than New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who doesnt care if he is re-elected and stands up to government patronate, to teachers unions and civil servant unions,...
• Commented on Revised Delaware/Virginia Plans Under Scrutiny
  impressingagent, I dont think anyone needs to take art classes to know what is in "harmony" and what is not. Philadelphia has a very, well the only word I can think of is utilitarian, sensibility. Philadelphia is not afraid of...
• Commented on Revised Delaware/Virginia Plans Under Scrutiny
  Why wouldn't he want to put his offices in the Life Sciences Corridor where he would have better access to patents and specialists? I dont know...it seems to fit with the other UB surburban campus buildings in the Life Sciences...
• Commented on Work Starting on New Educational Opportunity Center
  Someone loves architecture and hates cities. Look at how much of that building is only 1 story tall. Boy I really feel like Im in the city with these 1 story buildings....
• Commented on New Field of Valor Monument Unveiled
  I have to agree with bobbycat. I did not agree with the Iraq War or the Afghanistan War but then I didnt think Reagan should have sent troops to Lebanon or Clinton sent troops into the Balkans. I dont think...
• Commented on Kaleida Shifts Children's Expansion to Medical Campus
  Childrens Hospital is unlikely to get a hotel not with the Lenox so close. More likely an Elmwood Hotel will go to Millard Fillmore Gates Circle. Residential Apartments and assisted living are more likely uses which could even lead to...
• Commented on Bass Pro, Again?
  I dont have a problem with going back to BassPro. Not at all! If your in Sales and Marketing or development, then its not unusual to go back and court customers again and again and again under different deals, proposals...
• Commented on Kaleida Shifts Children's Expansion to Medical Campus
  I predicted this from the beginning, even when they were doing the telethons to keep it on Elmwood. Like the Buffalo Zoo the neighborhood wanted it but they didnt the sacrifices needed for it to grow or change. It was...
• Commented on Eighth Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade
  (Kearns is a disappointment. Kearns knows that a new convention and conference center would go in the First Ward or Outer Harbor and yet he never lobbies for it. That is a disappointment that Kearns seems to be the champion...
• Commented on Eighth Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade
  I think Rivera is a real asset to the Buffalo Common Council. This is a guy who really has a very deep sense of concern for neighborhoods he represents and he listens. There is not alot of politics in what...
• Commented on "Railroadiana" Expo at Buffalo Central Terminal
  It was a perfectly reasonable answer. I will justify my opinions or justify my suggestions but I will not give you privilege into my personal life, whom I speak to or correspond with, whom I do business with, etc. Im...
• Commented on Road Trip: NYC's High Line
  Dear BuffaloRising readers, PaulBuffalo keeps directing all his focus in every response toward me. Even in his latest post he is using sarcasm and twisting the intent. I invite everyone to tell this liberal downstate NYC/ and liberal Los Angeles...
• Commented on "Railroadiana" Expo at Buffalo Central Terminal
  Grad94, I want to address this specifically to you. First let me say that your derogatory comments to me are tolerable because atleast you are a person of substance and there is thought in your words. In answer to your...
• Commented on "Railroadiana" Expo at Buffalo Central Terminal
  Let me make something perfectly clear to everyone. I am not addressing PaulBuffalo. I am being addressed or rather stalked by PaulBuffalo. You dont need to take my word for it. Look at the evidence 99% of his posts are...