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• Commented on IDA Approves Incentives for Fairmont Creamery Re-Do
  high rate of unoccupied residences....this might be true but what is in demand is is loft apartments in the $1000-$2000 range and we do not have enought to meet that demand. Creating better uses for abandoned buildings will create density...
• Commented on Catholic Health Seeks Additional On-Site Parking
  Beautiful retail space at 285 Delaware was incorporated into that design and still sits vacant. That is where retail space should be in the design. I am sure it will be taken at some point and kudos to the developer...
• Commented on IDA Approves Incentives for Fairmont Creamery Re-Do
  Many seem quite naive and uninformed as to how the process of developement works. Buffalo is not the only place that incentivizes property owners to rehabilitate buildings. This has always been the process. Almost every building in every city in...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Houk Lofts
  I hear ya bflowatch, but have patience. I think in order to qualify for tax breaks it cannot be a condo for certain amount of years. Look for some condo conversions coming on line in coming years as comeptition for...
• Commented on Thursday @ Canalside | BP Rocks Canalside 2013
  attempted to go a couple times last year but just to damn packed, security gaurds blocking walkways, fights and a real long line for crappy beer, on the uptick we have the music at Larkin and River Park. Something for...
• Commented on Perk's Café & Market
  sounds good, but 2nd cup was good too. This location needs a destination concept....
• Commented on Sweet_ness adds a European twist
  I think Sweetness might get a little extra attention because it is an inspirational spirit of entrepreneurship ala Horsefeathers. Creative individual opening cool concept cafes in interesting neighborhoods. This is the type of gentrification that has resurrected neighborhoods in big...
• Commented on White Rabbit Frozen Yogurt to Open on Elmwood Avenue
  yeah millertime I read that, "not enough parking", next to the Arena of all places....all there is is parking....
• Commented on White Rabbit Frozen Yogurt to Open on Elmwood Avenue
  I heared Co-op was heading for North Buffalo but not Hertel, maybe Kenmore?...
• Commented on White Rabbit Frozen Yogurt to Open on Elmwood Avenue
  well we do have Coffee Culture, Blue Mountain, Starbucks andO3. O3 is my fav, great espresso...
• Commented on Yotality
  this new craze seem pretty familar to me too, I can swear I have had frozen yougurt at regular ice cream stands for about the last 15 years....
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  Agreed Chris, I have been looking for a nice rental and just can't quite find the right one or time it right. It is quite competitve, we need more....
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  "worried about AP Architects"...seems like all they need to do on the exterior is get the windows right...
• Commented on Queen Takes a Haircut on Soldiers Circle
  They paid to much because it is government and that is how government operates, just like spending $1M on a small boardwalk or $640K on a clam shack....
• Commented on Part of Buffalo Billion to Assist with Parkway Removal in Falls
  Because transportation,the ease of a comute and moving products, is vital to the city's economy and long term success. The very reason that the business community would like to see 219 turned into a Federal Interstate and connect with I86...
• Commented on Part of Buffalo Billion to Assist with Parkway Removal in Falls
  Well said saltecks, sometimes in life you just have to compromise. The Rt 5 re-do seems like a reasonable compromise. The skyway was not coming down in the next 5-10 years so for now we get all the other stuff...
• Commented on Broderick Park Renovations Underway
  The rag on Mayor Brown thing is getting tiresome. I do not know him personally but he srikes me as a putz, so I am not a fan trust me. To mock him for being a politician is just silly....
• Commented on Luminous Shots of Grain Elevators in 'The Atlantic Cities'
  I see this as a public relations bonanza too. This will be picked up in travel mags and newspapers all over the country and Canada as well as some great TV shots during Bills and Sabres national broadcasts. Weekend travelers...
• Commented on Luminous Shots of Grain Elevators in 'The Atlantic Cities'
  Could have a truly transformative effect on downtown. I can see thousands of people, locals and visitors coming down nightly for the show, sitting by the water or in boats in summer, skating in the winter, looking out hotel room...
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  Like I said figure out how to change government as we have known it from the begining of our counrty and I would certainly applaud you, but to just be pissed about it doesn't do much good. The investment in...
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  Lots of Mayor bashing here and for some pretty good reason, $1m for a small boardwalk, $648K for a food shack, I get it it is frustrating, but people if you think Mayor Brown is the first politician to toss...
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  Niagara Sq is under construction now...
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  Sadly that is just the way government works everywhere, Buffalo is not an exception....
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  I saw shipping containers used for cafes and bars in Barcelona, very cool...
• Commented on Groundbreaking held for $640,000 Ice Cream Stand & Clam Bar
  Well for starters because they own the bulding and the land...
• Commented on Warm up to Don Tequila
  Food was really good, Margarita's not so much....gallon jugs of sugar loaded pre-mix, come on folks...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  Genesee Gateway is going loft apartment, but BR has been late on the news. There is also money in place for street enhancements such as lighting, benches, trees and plants and crosswalks, just not sure when that is happening...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  That building that you are fond of has no street retail presence and 2 garage doors facing the street, is that what you would like in place of Catholic Health building....
• Commented on Warm up to Don Tequila
  It is not just the 1.5%, CC also track your sales more exact as well as servers tips....
• Commented on La Tavola Trattoria
  In-house demi-glace....say what?...