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• Commented on Ohhhh, your concrete is sooo beautiful!
  Sally: that building is also owned by Delta Sonic, I believe. They've got office space and their training center there, I think....
• Commented on Ohhhh, your concrete is sooo beautiful!
  given your antipathy toward bushes in front of storefronts, I am pleased to see you appreciate trees there....
• Commented on Visions of Outer Harbor Opportunities
  Like the idea a lot, but I have reservations. I would love to be able to shop at a real market for organic, wholesome local foods. A center like this is very attractive, but . . . Why not do...
• Commented on Quote of the Week: Andrew Rudnick on Statler
  re: Shoreline vs. Statler: that's an apples to oranges location. The Shoreline apartments are not on Niagara Square. Besides, they were built in an era when downtowns (not just ours) were dying. Fashions change. Our downtown is healthier. I would...
• Commented on Lafayette Hotel Joins National Register
  I'm against the mortgage tax deduction and subsidies to farmers, too. And I favor a strong gas tax to fund the whole cost of our road infrastructure....
• Commented on Quote of the Week: Andrew Rudnick on Statler
  I'm undecided on this one yet. I don't have enough information. Sure, I love the Statler, at least the first few floors. Great piece of Buffalo history. Wonderful showpiece. But I respect the naysayers here because this is a more...
• Commented on Quote of the Week: Andrew Rudnick on Statler
  gee, I dunno. It seems Ciminelli did a nice job with a vacant lot on Delaware between Channel 2 and National Gypsum's former HQ. The old addage of real estate is location, location, location, right? The Statler site occupies one...
• Commented on Quote of the Week: Andrew Rudnick on Statler
  That's a very reasonable and well stated position....
• Commented on Lafayette Hotel Joins National Register
  I am curious: How much money does NYS spend on historic rehab projects? How much in total? How much per taxpayer? These buildings are more expensive to rehab, generally speaking, than knocking them down and building something modern. Modern structures...
• Commented on Nearly 99 Reasons to Love 99
  One clue to good ethnic food is the number of non English speakers dining there. This establishment always seems to have a table or three of Asians around. And the food is good....
• Commented on Turning the Lights Back ON
  Those blank concrete block walls didn't get graffiti blasted on them all this time (a bit surprising, I'll agree), so hopefully that portends well for these....
• Commented on Quality of Life Issues: Back to the Basics
  Glad to hear their response. Their tacos are better than Mighty's and they did a nice job on their restaurant, so I've been happy to eat there. Now I won't feel guilty supporting them....
• Commented on BAC Caters to Downtown Market; Opens New High-End Workout Floor
  nice catch....
• Commented on True Cities and Shadow Cities
  ask National Gypsum or Bell Aerospace, two large Buffalo born and bred companies that high tailed it out of Buffalo for the sunbelt during my lifetime. I can't recall the names of others which have left, but my memory insists...
• Commented on A Main Street Message
  oops. my bad. I stand corrected. at first he bought only the school....
• Commented on True Cities and Shadow Cities
  It would be nice to be home to Fortune 500 corporations. But Rochester's distinction as home to Kodak and Bausch and Lomb and the founding location of the Xerox corp. hasn't prevented them from sliding much as Buffalo has. Taxes...
• Commented on A Main Street Message
  In fairness to Paladino, he doesn't own that church. He only bought the old school building, and that was relatively recently. The church has been decaying for decades. And Paladino has and is doing much with the former Bryant and...
• Favorited A Main Street Message on Buffalo Rising
• Commented on A Main Street Message
  outstanding rehab. Wonderful to see. Huge improvement (great choice in colors, too). There was public grant money (city) associated with this project. I'm curious as to how much. Perhaps BR could inquire....
• Favorited Street Success on Buffalo Rising
• Commented on Street Success
  might appear minor, but this is a big improvement. happy to see....
• Commented on On The Market: Circa-1867 West Village Church
  Talk to Neil Radice (Alleyway). I eventually sold him the brownstone church on the corner of Ferry and Richmond which is also an 'Ackerman' design (same theater in the round configuration). He has better than $800k into the project so...
• Favorited The Stuff Torn Down Before The Stuff Torn Down. on Buffalo Rising
• Commented on On The Market: Circa-1867 West Village Church
  Theater/performance is ideal for this structure. Years ago, when Irish Classical was still in the Calumet, this church was for sale. I showed it to Irish Classical and Alleyway and they both absolutely loved it and wanted to make a...
• Commented on City Honors: Now You're Hired... Now You're Fired.
  @pegger, re: union bashing: You, like some others, attribute the decline of the American middle class to the simultaneous decline in the influence of unions. I think that is looking at the world backwards. I think it's the case that...
• Commented on City Honors: Now You're Hired... Now You're Fired.
  Do I resent fire and police unions? Absolutely. Have you seen the obscene pension situations? Reprehensible. Do I resent the auto unions? Not since they recognized economic reality and made themselves more competitive. Before that I did blame them in...
• Commented on City Honors: Now You're Hired... Now You're Fired.
  The teachers' union deserves to be bashed. The whole idea of tenure is an insult to the taxpayer. Count me among those incredulous that the only two possible solutions for this situation are either: a) more money for the teachers...
• Commented on Urban Habitat Proposed at Central Terminal
  having trouble saying goodbye?...
• Commented on The Architecture Tour of the Summer
  I agree with much of your take, as on exploitation of factory workers and child labor in coal mines, etc. And I agree that the rewards of capitalism, most egregiously but certainly not exclusively pre-TDR reforms, were distributed unfairly, disproportionately,...
• Commented on How NOT to Suck - Service Edition
  if you broaden 'military' to include options for public service such as Peace Corps, then I'm on board. Not that it has anything to do with this great article. Although I was a waiter . . ....