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• Commented on St. Paul's Project to Renovate Two Downtown Buildings
  One of the great aspects about Buffalo is that it has a lot of civically minded churchs that contribute to the improvement of life in the city. While St. Paul's often keeps a low profile, it is a strong community...
• Commented on Meetings Set to Review Maryland/West Project
  I wonder about this project. I believe a good predictor of this project's success would be a comparison with how the rehabbed apartment house at 250 Virginia St is working out. That project was finished in the Fall and...
• Commented on Let's Hear It! Where Are the Top Places In Buffalo To Watch Super Bowl XLV?
  Coles...
• Commented on Larkin Development Group Unveils Next Project
  Originally, Capital Management's preferred location for its new headquarters was the Lakeside Commerce Park. If this plan had worked out, they would have been isolated in a business park designed for light industrial. The company certainly could have survived...
• Commented on Then and Now: A Swan Emerges
  I love rehabbed houses in Buffalo.I usually visit my hometown during GardenWalk week. I and many others have noticed that there is a synergy between house rehabbing on the West Side and the GardenWalk. It's very visible on York...
• Commented on TVGA Relocates HQs to Historic Theater District Site
  So, how much did First Niagara kick in to Byron's coffers?...
• Commented on TVGA Relocates HQs to Historic Theater District Site
  So, how much did First Niagara kick in to Byron's coffers?...
• Commented on Ellicott Development Takes a Liking to St. Paul Mall
  My error.Goodrich is being closed from Michigan to Ellicott. From the City of Buffalo SEQRA Public Notice Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus - North End development: Under Project Description "The Projects also include the abandonment of a portion of Goodrich Street...
• Commented on Ellicott Development Takes a Liking to St. Paul Mall
  Carl is the developer of choice for Rite Aid not Walgreen's. I walked through this area at the end of July and the Global Vascular Institute is extremely close to St.Paul's Mall.There is no immediate parking for employees of the...
• Commented on Move Underway to Stop ECC's Amherst Health Science Building
  I think some intern and mentoring programs might help seal the deal. Another idea might be having the developer of 120 North Division propose another building conversation for living space much closer to the Medical Corridor....
• Commented on Final Touches on The Fairmount - Commercial Fully Leased
  This is a great story, Any idea what the rents are?...
• Commented on Jeffrey M. Goldfarb & Associates Relocates to Downtown
  This is more good news for Downtown Buffalo. It got me thinking for a moment that all the worry people had about the events at City Grill last August and its possible negative effects on Downtown seem to have come...
• Commented on Virginia Street Project on Schedule for March Completion
  It's good to see another renovation project coming to fruition. As you mentioned, the exterior masonry work has been repointed and we see new windows everywhere. It may just be me but why do I think the exterior is bland...
• Commented on ZeptoMetrix Mansion Nears Completion
  It's good to see this project, another slow germinating process on the development/redevelopment curve, coming to a successful conclusion. The windows in the cinder-block fortress are also a great improvement. My only constructive suggestion for this building would be a...
• Commented on Construction Watch: On Seneca Street
  I love the fact that so many projects announced for Buffalo over this new century's first decade have come to fruition. For the last half of the 20th century, the ratio between projects announced and projects completed in Buffalo was...
• Commented on Ripley... believe it.
  The gentleman who is responsible for the condo renovation building on York St close to Union Place, Little Summer and 16th St did a complete interior renovation of a house on Ripley just before his York St project. I toured...
• Commented on Karla Thomas Hammers Steve Casey in Letter to Mayor Brown
  Despite whatever has been said about hiring qualified personnel, when you have political and civil service patronage debts and strong political grassroots campaign organizations you get people like Thomas and the recent Police Commissioner nominee in Buffalo's municipal government. In...
• Commented on Redevelopment Planned for 290-96 Ellicott Street
  It's also been called the Flower District because of the number of flower wholesalers in the area....
• Commented on Verizon Dials in on Somerset Site for Data Center
  The Verizon story is great news. Let me just throw out this question for comment: I have asked myself several times why almost all economic development from outside WNY seems to love settling in Niagara County whether its this Verizon...
• Commented on Canalside Community Alliance Seeks Public Input
  Al Labruna has the right idea. I happened to be in Lowell, MA last month and visited a National Parks interpretive center for the Lowell mills of the 1800's. The Center is in an old mill building that had been...
• Commented on History of The Lafayette: Part One
  The restoration of the Lafayette and the forthcoming restoration of the AM&A's building around the corner are substantial turning points for Downtown Buffalo. Certainly recent restoration efforts such as the Genessee Gateway, the AM&A's Warehouse conversion into apartments and the...
• 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....