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• Commented on Construction Watch: Cynthia Gardens
  I agree on both counts - this project costs too much, but them butchering rehabs isn't much better. If the point is to 1. be green and 2. help those needing affordable housing then why not put the money towards...
• Commented on Lasalle Park Beach?
  DC recently started upgrading its sewer system to (mostly) eliminate sewage discharge. The price tag? $2.6B. Granted, DC is a larger city than Buffalo, but I think it's safe to say it'd likely take the full "Buffalo Billion" and then...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Delaware/Virginia
  Who cares? Just don't click on the article if you're not interested, dork....
• Commented on "Pizza pizza!"
  Fast food pizza. They don't pretend like they're not garbage - crappy, but cheap and no wait time. I suppose if I was really poor and/or didn't like myself I'd eat it again....
• Commented on UB Unveils Med School Design (More Images)
  Good questions and I don't know the answers. But I do know that aiming for LEED Gold cert. means the building almost certainly has a plan for storm water runoff. Whether that's a green roof that's not shown in the...
• Commented on Teens losing Interest in Driving?
  "30 years ago nearly half of all American 16 year olds had a driver's license. in 2010 that dropped to 28% as shown in a University of Michigan study." Presumably that's in part because a number of states now have...
• Commented on 196 Soldiers Place: Canadians Offer Half-Off Sale
  lol, are you for real? You understand property taxes pay for things, right? There are obvious regional inefficiencies which need to be addressed, but trying to apply your marginal understanding of "free markets" to the situation isn't making much sense....
• Commented on Bethlehem Steel Demolition Begun: Citizens Gather at "Cathedral of Industry", Protest Failure of Leadership, Lost Opportunity
  This is absolutely mind-boggling and sickening at the same time. How could the inherent value of this building be completely lost on those in charge? Other cities would kill for this building....
• Commented on West Side Renaissance & PUSH Buffalo
  "If a property needs more than $100,000 of work to get to the level where it can be rented out for ~$500.00 a month...it should not be considered." That's an entirely valid opinion. The other side is that these problem...
• Commented on West Side Renaissance & PUSH Buffalo
  I'd assume you're comparing apples and oranges. Are your properties, before rehab, in anywhere near as poor a condition as, e.g. 257 Massachusetts Ave? No? I didn't think so....
• Commented on MLK splash pad nearing completion
  Nice project. Calling LED lighting and water jets "cutting edge technology" did make me laugh, though....
• Commented on Metro Rail: The Original Vision
  Niagara and Broadway? I don't think you have a very good understanding of BRT. It doesn't make sense unless the buses run with very little headway. Running buses with very little headway only makes sense if there are a lot...
• Commented on Fillmore Avenue Gets Repaved, Reconfigured, and Bike Lanes
  I immediately thought of that, too, but on second thought I figured that'd be pretty unworkable for plowing. Maybe I'm wrong and the original, common sense thought still should have been done....
• Commented on HSBC Leaving Tower
  Great opportunity to renovate, possibly re-skin, and turn mixed use....
• Commented on HSBC Leaving Tower
  Overreact much?...
• Commented on Rumor: Walmart Eyeing Hertel/Elmwood Corner
  benfranklin, your numbers are seriously off. Walmart pulls in over $4 billion a QUARTER, not a year....
• Commented on Rumor: Walmart Eyeing Hertel/Elmwood Corner
  I believe the word you're looking for is "vicious". Vicious cycle....
• Commented on Rumor: Walmart Eyeing Hertel/Elmwood Corner
  There are in fact very nice, urban Walmarts in other U.S. cities. Not that I expect they'll bother with anything other than their crappy suburban model @ this location. Oh well....
• Commented on Christmas Goes Green at Urban Roots too!
  "help fix carbon in their branches and in the soil and provide habitat for birds and animals." Huh? Is this true? I thought the sequestered carbon dioxide (assuming that's what the commenter is talking about) is just released back into...
• Commented on Buffalo Bills Finally Display Some Defense
  If the Bills were to start stringing together a few wins the sting of that gimme Tennessee game will resurface real quick.......
• Commented on Buffalo Bills: Brad Smith Among 3 Who Might Not Make it to 2013
  To be fair, Edwards was cut because of his high salary, not because the Bills didn't think he'd be valuable to the team - just not valuable enough to merit his salary (which I still agree with). Point taken, though....
• Commented on The Struggles of Ryan Fitzpatrick in Buffalo
  Meh, Fitzy has played about as well as I'd expect. Frankly, he doesn't have the talent of even a mediocre NFL QB. That's apparent every time he tries to throw beyond 15 yards. Coaching is the biggest thing holding this...
• Commented on Buffalo named one of top 20 cities for trick-or-treating
  Indeed, quite interesting. A lot of nice areas to the city, but there are immediately adjacent blocks of complete ghettoness. Very different from a number of other cities where you have greater geographic segregation between rich/poor. "I saw some dude...
• Commented on Cheektowaga's New Super Walmart: Good News for Buffalo, Bad News for the Region
  Frankly, I'm not buying this argument. The premise, if I'm understanding it correctly, is "the Buffalo suburbs are sucking more and more; therefore, people will move into the city of Buffalo which, by contrast, looks better." The problem with this...
• Commented on Buffalo Bills: Time For Super Mario To Earn That Check
  "get some decent players around him and see what happens" ?!?!? You mean like a stud line of Dareus, K. Williams, Kelsay/Anderson? Something like that??? Mario, I would hope, would be first to admit he's under-performing and holding us back...
• Commented on Buffalo Grain Elevator Illuminated in Lighting Demonstration
  Holy smokes, that first pic shows some major, needless light pollution. Hopefully that's not the norm. If it is, this gimmick is definitely not worth it in my eyes....
• Commented on Politics Are Brewing at 7-Eleven
  Blah blah blah....
• Commented on Hatch Restaurant to Expand
  Certainly depends. Obviously rows of commercial grade equipment and freezers is big $$$. Presumably they have to run utilities to the new build as well which also is big $$$. It's safe to say it's not 400K worth of drywall...
• Commented on Termini: AM&A's Project is Dead
  "If it's (the legislation) not signed in a couple of weeks we'll get a move on to another project because we don't want to lose our tenants." So...what's the problem? I understand he'd like an extra 7 mil handed to...
• Commented on Young Professionals Will Convene at Hotel Lafayette for Networking Launch
  You're still not getting it. There is no "affirmative action" to help women enter colleges. It is 100% the other way around. Most colleges have lower entry requirements for men than for women. As you note, fewer men attend college...