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• Commented on Cornucopia Takes Shape
  It's nice to see Cornucopia coming along. Any idea how Brodo is progressing down the block??...
• Commented on A Main Street Message
  It's great to see this kind of a rehab. If it took grant money to get it done, so be it. Just having this finished rehab project as an example of what can be done in the midtown area that...
• Commented on Buffalo's Gardens Speak For Themselves
  It's truely remarkable that in 10 years time, the GardenWalk, Buffalo In Bloom and all the smaller neighborhood Garden Walks have had such a positive effect in terms of neighborhood rejuvenation. How many house paint jobs and rehabs in Buffalo's...
• Commented on BRO Leaves Town #3 - Chicago Sucks (not really but sort of)
  Buffalo's problems are definitely not unique. What's irksome is the almost reflexive tendency by some Buffalonians to assume this attitude that Buffalo is somehow deservedly placed at the bottom of America's ****chute. It's not and never has been. Some people...
• Commented on Record Sale on Middlesex Road
  Aw shucks! Another snow picture....
• Commented on Trio of "Brownstone" Units Hit the Market
  I'm glad to see that this project has finally gotten somewhere. It's been on the burner for what, 6 or 7 years? Epstein gets mixed reviews from people. I know some folks who didn't like what he did with the...
• Commented on Larkin District Gets National Register Recognition
  Please folks, let's not have the thread go permanently off-topic over a snow picture. Would this preservation tool work for Rocco and the Lafayette Hotel project? Waiting for Paterson and the State Legislature to resolve the historic preservation tax...
• Commented on Olmsted's Front Yard Competition @ MLK
  There are a number of beautiful houses not only on North Parade but on East Parade and West Parade. It would be great if some house painting could be worked into this effort. The Pink house in Picture #2 could...
• Commented on What is ECC Thinking?
  Mr. Whatever-The location of this facility as part of the City's Ellicott lot proposal/plan is an excellent idea....
• Commented on What is ECC Thinking?
  It's too bad that Giambra was done in by his "red and green" budgets.Before his demise, he had enough power and influence to make the ECC consolidation happen Downtown. I can remember cynically laughing as the ECC North president used...
• Commented on Mystery Revealed: Bosche Building's History
  Now, if someone will come along with a plan to redevelop the Red Jacket....
• Commented on Tenants Share Lafayette Hotel Vision
  There is definately no doubt that Rocco is one of the most organized and energetic guys to ever wonder onto the Buffalo redevelopment scene. Can anyone over at the Medical Campus figure out a way to clone six or seven...
• Commented on The Responsibility of a Smart City
  I have the perspective of someone who grew up in Buffalo during the 1960's. I also live in Brookline, MA but return to Buffalo several times a year because I love Buffalo. When my youngest daughter graduates from high school...
• Commented on Courthouse Getting Glassy Skin
  The reason for the stated delay of the installation of the glass was for security concerns....
• Commented on Mezza to Open Soon
  Let's hope that these guys finally break that building's restaurant curse. There have been, what 4 or 5 different restaurants there, since the Soda Bar of the early 1990's....
• Commented on McGee Buys Avant Condo Unit
  Let's not be too cynical this afternoon. The AM&A's Warehouse Lofts formerly opened today with 45 of the 48 units leased. http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/05/14/1049847/from-warehouse-to-apartment-house.html...
• Commented on What Projects Deserve Stimulus Funds?
  Business First's parent company, Bizjournals, offers a complete explanation of these bonds at this link: http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2010/01/25/story4.html...
• Commented on Common Council Items of Interest
  Actually the maintenance of the city's website is very slipshod. If you go to the pages for the City's Planning Board, Preservation Board, Urban Renewal Agency, and Zoning Board Appeals, you will find large gaps between the postings of the...
• Commented on What Projects Deserve Stimulus Funds?
  There is no sole winner. There will be several winners. My preference for winning is job creation projects first and then building rehabilitation projects. The winners get funds for their projects from the sale of the bonds....
• Commented on What Projects Deserve Stimulus Funds?
  The stimulus funds are a pie and will be split several ways. I appreciate the gravity of the conspicuous Statler problem and have no problem having some of the pie directed towards putting it back in operation. However, a primary...
• Commented on Get Hold of Yourself. It's One Building.
  The Statler will be back. However, I wish they wouldn't have boarded up the windows on the street level. There are a number of buildings on Main St. that are empty that have displays in the ground level window area....
• Commented on First Home Sold at St. Stanislaus Gardens
  I think the project that the Marlies Wesolowski and the Matt Urban Center project on Sweet St has finally gotten off the ground as a lease to purchase program after having a terrible time getting bank financing. http://www.urbanctr.org/services/housing.html...
• Commented on LMAO!
  Thanks....
• Commented on LMAO!
  It's not that I don't know how exaggerated and how stereotyped the rest of the US can view Buffalo winters, I've actually met people who think it snows from October through May in Buffalo, but what are Buffalo's figures in...
• Commented on Architectural Conundrum: Building for Sale/Lease
  The Scientologists were in that space while their Main/Virginia headquarters, the former Catholic Union, was being restored....
• Commented on Homefront: 19th Street Progress and a New M&T Grant
  Excellent news to hear....
• Commented on Buffalo Alumni Society: Buffalo Grows In Numbers
  To be perfectly honest about it, I left Buffalo at 18 because I wanted to get out of Buffalo in the worst way. I wanted to get away from my family, particularly my father. I wanted to get away from...
• Commented on Homeless Safe Haven Project Completed
  Any plans to clean the brick wall on the left-side of the brick house? Would it require sandblasting?...
• Commented on KFC Site Redevelopment Underway
  I forgot to ask, when will work on the apartments on West Utica start?...
• Commented on KFC Site Redevelopment Underway
  Finally, this project is starting. Great News for mid-winter....