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• Commented on Construction Watch: Houk Lofts
  The survey created official NRE or non-contributing status to properties that are now in the SHPO database but did not list anything. Market Street Historic District, not really near these properties, came out of the survey though....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Houk Lofts
  Condos can, however, use the State 20% tax credit. An apartment building on Delaware was the first to do it in NYS with Clinton Brown Company working with SHPO to figure it out....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Houk Lofts
  Really nice! This industrial property and others were identified in a recon survey of Black Rock, 316 Grote in particular is NRE under criterion C, and was the former Carl Burwick & Co Building: http://buffaloah.com/surveys/br/AnnotatedList.pdf (Page 3-86)....
• Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
  Glad to see this project unstall, but worried about AP Architects. I have never heard of them, and their website indicates no experience with adaptive reuse projects, just suburban junk....
• Commented on Preservation Award Winners: Central Terminal Sheet Metal Craftsmen
  Yes! Me, and all my former co-workers at Clinton Brown Company. I believe there are more in the other professional preservation/architecture firms, but I can't confirm. As far as I know, not in City Hall and not at Preservation Buffalo...
• Commented on Preservation Award Winners: Central Terminal Sheet Metal Craftsmen
  **There were five individuals involved in this project! A correct should be coming soon via Buffalo Rising via Preservation Buffalo Niagara.** Also, Buffalo's Young Preservationists nominated these awesome guys, and we hope to keep working with the Terminal, ED Marilyn...
• Commented on The Campaign to Save the Vaux Barn
  Ok, let's make the best of this: Go to http://bfloparks.org > Support Us > Make a Gift > add Make a Gift > indicate an amount and that it is to be used for the Vaux Barn > add to...
• Commented on The Campaign to Save the Vaux Barn
  You've got me tingly and reaching for my wallet, now what do I do...!? Not on your website! No fundraising campaign!? And your donate button makes no sense....
• Commented on Silo City Rocks and a tribute to Buffalo's mustached men
  Material/application of the mural?...
• Commented on History of Michigan Street Baptist Church to be Discussed Tonight
  I hope that Cynthia Van Ness from the Research Library of the Buffalo History Museum will be speaking/attending this! She has done a tremendous job researching primary source information about UGRR sites in Buffalo. I do not see the Michigan...
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  The City's only preservation position has been vacant since March 2012....
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  Personal invitations are very difficult to find time to address when you're fighting to keep demo equipment at bay. Preservation Buffalo Niagara and its staff were as invited as John, who held a weeks long sit-in, at the site. Were...
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  Http://preservationready.org has sections for both at-risk and demolished....
• Commented on Crummy is as Crummy Does: A Gallery of Mediocrity
  As someone involved in the project I can tell you, PBN did very little other than get themselves out of the way and accept funding already secured by a community group for the Elmwood West Historic District. It was led...
• Commented on Eight Buffalo Spirits, LLC: Our First Post-Prohibition Distillery
  No caption for that ridiculous boob shot?...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: Bethlehem Steel, Going Going Gone?
  PS: Email photos, information, CC emails to the Mayor, etc to "savebethsteel@gmail.com" to share with the anti-demo, demanding justice and transparency, demanding common sense, willing and smart enough to come up with other options, we respect our heritage team and...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: Bethlehem Steel, Going Going Gone?
  There is a website with all of the news regarding Bethlehem Steel from Buffalo and regional press including photo and videos, phone numbers for the Mayor and the owners, and tips for making your phone calls and emails. Also, contact...
• Commented on Wrecking Buffalo: Bethlehem Steel, Going Going Gone?
  What are you even saying...demolish this and the Central Terminal? What is the benefit of demolition? In the hierarchy of architectural history in Buffalo, you've just knocked off some of the top ten. Martin House next? City Hall next? Richardson...
• Commented on Hertel Lounge
  That section of Hertel was just WIDENED. We got the fancy fake brick planters and dead trees to go with them. No street furniture, but pole banners. I believe it was to include a turn lane. I would be great...
• Commented on Trico Lot Project Continues 'Greening' of Medical Campus
  An expensive and inconsequential but pretty project for the BNMC portfolio - while Trico rots (even if concrete is recycled, the costs and environmental impact of demolition is huge + then the cost in dollars and energy for new construction)....
• Commented on HSBC Leaving Tower
  We have a downtown mall. Please use its level of success as a commonsense indicator of the plausibility of a mall in an office tower....
• Commented on Another Push Being Made to Save Bethlehem Steel Administration Building
  We're still working hard to preserve Beth Steel, we have 10 days! Email the Mayor right now about it: mayor@LACKny.com....
• Commented on Rumor: Walmart Eyeing Hertel/Elmwood Corner
  There's a grouping of historic industrial buildings there, Acme Nipple Factory, I believe....
• Commented on Another Push Being Made to Save Bethlehem Steel Administration Building
  What a boring argument, if that's all you have, skip it next time....
• Commented on Another Push Being Made to Save Bethlehem Steel Administration Building
  PayPal button is on http://imsteelstanding.org! Or mail checks to Save Beth Steel via Campaign for Greater Buffalo....
• Commented on Another Push Being Made to Save Bethlehem Steel Administration Building
  The owners are considering demolition for space for a warehouse. There is no need for this building to be demolished, in fact, the back portion of the building could be that warehouse....
• Commented on Another Push Being Made to Save Bethlehem Steel Administration Building
  First, the preservationists have to make sure that it is not demolished. Then you can step in...deal?...
• Commented on Trico Reuse Feasibility Study Released
  I think it's one of the most unique parts, yes. And it ties into the history of that whole area as being a neighborhood of German-owned/built/operated breweries. Ulrich's was part of that history, as is the building at Washington and...
• Commented on Buffalo, Meet Matthew Ricchiazzi
  It's never too late...I just saw the mailer that Matthew mailed out. It is disgusting, bigoted, trash. Be careful about bringing this guy in on your projects. His name has been swirling around some historic preservation projects recently.[http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/09/ny_pol_knocks_g.php]...
• Commented on Apartments Proposed for Recently Closed Kenmore Avenue Church
  Our sacred spaces deserve more than being torn up by this hack of a developer. Examples: (1) Vinyl everything, all our of proportion in the church on Parkside Ave. (2) A parking lot on the front lawn of the Fairfield...