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• Commented on A Tale of Two Buildings and a Parking Lot
  Each new neighborhood is subsidized by the last one. If not there would be Clarences and Amhersts all by themselves without a core to have fed off of. There is a reason there are not isolated cities of no poverty...
• Commented on Two Visions Offered for Gates Hospital Site
  Children's Hospital will need a reuse also. Could the Vet school go there while Uniland gets this site? Also give $1 million to the vet school to take over at least some of the Children's hospital complex....
• Commented on Update: Judge Blocks Busti Demos
  Continental 1 is joke. Interstate 79 already comes up to Interstate 90. Co-brand I-90 between Erie and Buffalo with I-79 and rename I-190 as I-79. This way I-79 would go from Lewstion (Canadian border) down to Charleston. Continental-1 would meet...
• Commented on Design Revealed for 766 Elmwood Infill Project
  From the Buffalo News: "A parking study done several years ago confirmed that a long-term solution is needed, because demand outweighs supply in the popular shopping district, said Rebecca L. Gandour, interim executive director. But more than the project’s loss...
• Commented on Donovan Makeover Plans Get City OK
  The Donovan redo should need at least a two-story extension to Main St to follow guidelines. Random structures at the periphery does not a good design make. As for the ice rink rumor on the Webster block: they are going...
• Commented on Common Council to Decide on Trico Local Landmark Designation
  Duke University and City of Durham worked to revamp old cigarette factories. http://dukemagazine.duke.edu/issues/030412/durham1.html...
• Commented on Common Council to Decide on Trico Local Landmark Designation
  The only future taken hostage at this point is that of the Trico building. There is nothing planned by the BNMC to take its place. It could be knocked down next year, funding for the campus can dry up in...
• Commented on Dissecting Our Intersections
  It's 5 lanes wide. Re-stripe it for three lanes like they did with Hertel with parking along the west side. (No need for any along the cemetery.) Can add bike lanes with space remaining from the "5th lane". Bump out...
• Commented on Dissecting Our Intersections
  Somehow East Aurora can get a CVS built to the corner with parking at the interior block side and rear. I bet its all in the code. Most codes require the building to be set back which only leaves space...
• Commented on PRESERVATION UPDATE: TRICO SAVES ITSELF!
  There is no planned development for the site. So what is being held up?...
• Commented on PRESERVATION UPDATE: TRICO SAVES ITSELF!
  And here's another list http://www.thestar.com/news/article/843770--nimbyism-nay-saying-grumps-or-neighbourhood-activists A nice quote: “If we are building a transportation system to serve the automobile, the Spadina Expressway is a good place to start,” Ontario premier Bill Davis famously said in 1971. “But if we are...
• Commented on PRESERVATION UPDATE: TRICO SAVES ITSELF!
  Every city has them. To say (or "doubt") other wise is very delusional. 500 Lakeshore West http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=185982 Even the old Toronto City Hall was fought to be saved during the construction of the Eaton Center. One big difference between Buffalo...
• Commented on Road Trip Chicago: What do you do with a crappy old factory building?
  Demolishing a building with no committed use with ample open lots in the area = nothing being held up....
• Commented on Road Trip Chicago: What do you do with a crappy old factory building?
  You may be right. Is that why 50% of downtown has already met the wrecking ball? And the successes are? There are more than enough empty lots in the medical corridor to build on. The whole corridor is built with...
• Commented on Disappointing, Revised Casino Plans Unveiled
  Leaving out the additional amenities is a plus in that non-Seneca businesses can fill the needs (hotels, restaurants, etc). But putting the casino structure in the middle of a sea of parking negates any pathways for those businesses to connect...
• Commented on Disappointing, Revised Casino Plans Unveiled
  1) The pro of no hotel component is the ability of private hotels in the canal side area to pick up the need. 2) It does replace the blue shed 3)Otherwise it may as well be a regal theater in...
• Commented on Ode to Industrial: Sinful Nightclub
  The simple facade changes make a big difference....
• Commented on Grant Street: Downgrading the Scajaquada Expressway
  There's big signal icons so they're easy to see. They just add nothing toward "downgrading" the street. This 3.5 miles of highway duplicates the 190 and 290 to getting to the river. The traffic is there because the traffic sewer...
• Commented on Grant Street: Downgrading the Scajaquada Expressway
  ms paint. just add on circle to the west. one lane each direction http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5M3H-ASrg78/T000kReqrUI/AAAAAAAAAEc/AJBRIAmmU_U/s1600/GRANT.JPG...
• Commented on Grant Street: Downgrading the Scajaquada Expressway
  This becomes more and more of a joke with each intersection posted. I find myself wanting to look at the date of the post to see if it reads "April 1st, 2012". Was there a design contest to add as...
• Commented on Business Hours: What's the formula?
  The biggest thing I feel is that there is a pervasive feeling that some place in a suburban plaza will most likely be open to at least 9 while conversely a city store will most likely be closed by 5...
• Commented on Then and Now: The old Homestead
  80's Child of the Clinton Filmore area here. Loved the stores/shops that existed along Clinton and Broadway. The parks nearby. The industrial buildings to skateboard-bmx around. The train track trails. Quick bike rides to Tift etc. It still forms the...
• Commented on We're Re-Opening the Statler... Why Not Re-Imagine Niagara Square?
  But those 3 unmarked lanes work so well ;) And please do not rebuild the city court parking ramp in it's current configuration. Bring back W.Genessee toward the lake....
• Commented on Petition for a skate plaza.
  LaSalle is just an isolated island. Put it downtown where kids could take public transportation to it and go other places. As much as I love the BarkYard, it feels like what it is, an isolated block of fenced in...
• Commented on The Sportsmens Tavern Turns Roadhouse
  Obviously that is not what people are trying to say. And as a side note: My window was smashed in Lancaster. When I woke up the next day I though I had just left it rolled down. But anyways the...
• Commented on The Sportsmens Tavern Turns Roadhouse
  My car was "popped" in a subdivision in Lancaster. My friends was in their driveway in Clarence. One could be "careful" where they park or just do common sense things like leaving nothing valuable in sight no matter where you...
• Commented on The Mayor Wants A Skate Plaza!
  A favorite one of mine as a kid was the small concrete park that was at Cazenovia and Seneca. We would spend the whole day there with people coming and going. Take breaks to cross the street for some mighty...
• Commented on The Mayor Wants A Skate Plaza!
  I too wonder why the move from a cool "industrial" type spot like under the highway to a bland generic place like LaSalle Park. But the park DT in under(mis?)used space under a highway. It would provide shelter when raining...
• Commented on Kissling Brings Luxury Loft Living to North Tonawanda
  Who the hell would pay $1500 for a rental next to the Perry Projects?...
• Commented on Aldi Eyes Kmart/Sattler's Site for New Store
  There is no need to demolish the Kmart building. The Aldi would fit at the existing vacant corner with enough parking for both buildings still intact to the side of Aldi and in between them. If the Aldi spun off...