irishkwh
- Bio: In Finance, grew up in South Buffalo, now live in the elmwood village. Canisius grad, with MBA.
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Commented on Ellicott Proposes Fairmont Creamery Makeover
Carls real concern was the Perry Projects. I think that should be everyone's concern. They City needs to move all public housing into one area. How about near the central terminal? This could help spur growth into the East Side...
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Commented on Queen Takes a Haircut on Soldiers Circle
Poor Market??? I bid on 5 houses over the last year and a half in the Elmwood or Parkside area. I bid on average $25k over the asking price and finally got the 5th one because I was outbid on...
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Commented on FREE: Mid-19th Century Commercial Building, Needs Some Love
Perfect example of why HUD and BMHA housing should all be moved into this area! Than you can tackle restoring these properties into useful buildings! What's wrong with building a low income community instead of putting those properties next to...
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Commented on Women & Children's Hospital Reuse Meeting Scheduled
Some insight from someone who actually lives on Hodge. After putting up with the people who park in my neighborhood like A-holes, the garbage that is left behind, the helicopter and many other factors that children's negatively impacts our street,...
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Commented on No Parking, No Problem
Another reason are the kind of people that hang around DT. I have to talk relatives into coming to the Elmwood Village because many still believe that Buffalo is unsafe. Take a walk around M&T at lunch! How many times...
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Commented on City Hall is Making it Easier to Buy City Owned Properties
Why are all those homes so cheap??? Someone on here said the people of the East side take care of there homes and properties! huh............... Most of those homes are the same as homes in North Buffalo, South Buffalo, etc...
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Commented on Great Potential for Residential Church Conversion is Squandered by Owners Unwilling to Sell
[deleted] racist and ignorant...
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Commented on Ellicott Development Moving on Creamery Renovation
Now its time for BMHA to step up and remove all the Perry Projects and move that to the east side to help rebuild that side of the city....
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Commented on Planning 101: Don't Leave Out the Residents
All Public Housing, assisted or otherwise, needs to be moved to the EAST side ASAP. This way, you can fix up the East side to a better community and utilize many of the older buildings there. This piece of peoperty...
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Commented on Meeting to Discuss Future of Children's Hospital Site
This building is a piece of crap. Take that down and the parking garage and build new homes that fit in with the rest of the neighborhood! Since I live on Hodge, it would be nice if our City stepped...
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Commented on Demolition of Kensington Heights to Continue Through Winter
just another example of my taxes dollars going to waste because of low income housing!...
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Commented on It takes a public-private partnership.
Its time for Buffalo to Push out the low income properties and entities like the City Mission, HUD, HEAP, Welfare Office, Child Support and the like out of downtown. Want to give the train terminal new life? Take all these...
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Commented on Preservationists: Birge Mansion, they did build that. Twice!!
These are the types of buildings that need saving! Not old rail house buildings!...
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Commented on Buffalo wins IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Grant
But we still cant sync a street light on Delaware!...
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Commented on Lipstick Applied to Elm-Oak Corridor
Try and sync a damn light on Delaware PLEASE!!!...
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Commented on What's the deal?
Lets not forget the beautiful view of the low income housing right across the street! When will a developer by that property and convert it to nice condos?...
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Commented on Infill opportunity: The time is now
Its time to tear down that low income senior housing in the distance and replace that with some real condos!...
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Commented on Please THIS IS NOT A BIKE RACK
Its on private property, so the owner has every right to not want a bike on his/her lawn! The City should move the sign to the other side of the street were the park is. I saw that last week...
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Commented on School Reconstruction - Buffalo's Largest Historic Preservation Project. Ever.
All this money to rebuild schools so that 51% of the students that go there graduate. Of the 51%, probably 20% go on to college! It would have been smarter to build one massive trade school for the 49% to...
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Commented on Two Visions Offered for Gates Hospital Site
We need more residents living in the city that arent supported by the government! There are many other buildings that the Vet School could use around the city. Put residents in residential areas!...
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Commented on Soft Opening for Pan American Grill and Brewery
Only worry I have is that Pearl Street is running this and if you have ever eatin at pearl st. you'll know the food is average on a good day!...
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Commented on Ellicott Park: BNMC's Linear Park
Now, lets get that ghetto removed!...
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Commented on City mass-tickets cars on an observed holiday
Most Cities have residential parking permits! There are also the A-holes that take up 2 spots on every street!...
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Commented on Updated Rendering for Main-Ferry Project
Now if we could just push the ghetto back from the other side of main st to past the 33!...
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Commented on Tom Golisano Prepares Bid for Los Angeles Dodgers
He wants to do the same thing he did with the Sabres. Buy, Hold for a few years and sell and make 80 million. He's an A**hole!...
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Commented on Name this waterfront restaurant
Water Buffalo...
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Commented on HSCS Moves Into Their New Home at St. Vincent's
Now if we can just move the ghetto to the other side of the 33, Main street could be brought back to life....
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Commented on Phase 1 of Black Rock Canal Park to Start
They forgot to put Graffiti all over!...
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Commented on A Complete Niagara Street
We have to remove the ghetto areas from the west side. The housing projects, the clinics, etc. There are many houses and buildings that are worth saving. Plus, there are many areas that are still nice. They need to cut...
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Commented on Fine Dining in Buffalo - The Left Bank
Hey Spencer, this is one of the better writings on this site. You should probably keep quiet! Maybe learn a little about Buffalo Rising intent on articles for the City!...
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Knocking down ugly housing (what looks like mini-projects)= Progress!
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