Last night's public hearing at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery played to around 400 attendees, 60 of whom commented after the initial presentation of the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Study (DGEIS) for Canal Side. 
ECHDC Board Chairman Jordan Levy opened the hearing with the statement that the plan those in attendance were about to see was the culmination of 7 years of work, and he asked that all "keep an open mind."

EE&K Architects Founder Stan Eckstut said that the Erie

The October issue of Metropolis magazine focuses a bit of attention on Buffalo and on the Martin House complex in particular. The magazine has some nice things to say about the City of Buffalo, and they also offer a philosophical question to ponder. 

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Canalside: Moving in the Right Direction

On September 17, Empire State Development (ESD) approved the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS) for the latest version of Canalside, produced by Erie

The newly renovated Buffalo Transportation/Pierce Arrow Museum at Michigan and Seneca, in Downtown Buffalo, is pleased to induct its first honorees into The National Transportation Women's Hall of Fame.  The Museum is hosting an event on Friday, October

As the skeleton for the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino grows darker on the horizon, its exposed steel with a shelf-life of six years oxidizing, ground was broken yesterday for the expansion of the temporary casino at Michigan and Perry Streets.  The project is expected to be completed by spring of 2010.
Though construction was halted on the $333 million Buffalo Creek last year due to "economic downturn," according to a Seneca spokesman, the temporary facility continued to operate in the face

The details of the Canal Side development are revealed in the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS) now out for public review.  A public hearing on the 2000+ page document will be held tonight at 6:00 PM at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue.  The following is a summary of the project's proposed layout from the DGEIS document.

Project Scope
Canal Side consists of one million square feet of commercial, cultural, and residential space on 20 acres of land at the foot of Main Street.  The "preferred alternative" analyzed

In a Buffalo News editorial entitled "Council throws a block," the OpEd piece contends that the landmark designation of 771 Busti "could delay a project important to the city."  That would signal that the News editorial board has the new bridge and the truck plaza mixed up in their minds, while preservationists and Columbus Park-Prospect Hill residents insist that they are two separate projects.  One

Student and adult artists from all over Western New York have contributed artwork, judges have chosen the best pieces for the auction block, caterers are preparing to serve hundreds of people, and all that's left is for you to attend this Saturday's Art For Heart Auction at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum.  Ticket prices have been slashed from $45 to

This week on the Buffalo Rising Roundtable, WBFO News Director Mark Scott and I were in Studio B all on our own to talk about the past week's events.  (The podcast is the entire 20 - 30 minute show as opposed to the 5 minutes WBFO broadcasts, so give it a listen.)
On the first three subjects: the landmarking of 771 Busti, the /city/index.html

Some of my favorite BRO posts have been from of my "Now and Then" series.  They expose so much about the City of Buffalo through time, both positive and negative.  Unfortunately, I have pretty much run out of my own historic images, but I recently stumbled on a treasure trove of Buffalo pictures from 1986 taken by David Daruszka.

As Buffalo prepares for the National Trust for Preservation conference in 2011 (and this is a big deal by the way), the the E.B. Green Society began thinking that Buffalo deserves to have an organization that promotes serious and rigorous study of our magnificent and nationally under-appreciated architectural heritage. 

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The Tara Gift Shoppe and Dog Ear's Bookstore present author Mary Pat Kelly.

As an author and filmmaker, Mary Pat Kelly has told various stories connected to Ireland. Her award-winning PBS documentaries and accompanying books include To Live for Ireland, a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume and the political party he led; Home Away from Home: The Yanks in Ireland, a history of U.S. forces in Northern Ireland during World War II; and Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason, a portrayal of the only African-American sailors to take a World War II warship into combat, whose

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby, tells the tragic tale of Jay Gatsby as seen through the eyes of transplanted Midwesterner, Nick Carraway.   Nick moves to New Egg (read this to be Long Island) during the time of flappers and Prohibition. He is fascinated by Jay Gatsby, his well-to-do neighbor with a mysterious past.="mso-spacerun:

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Ever walk into FWS and wish you had the know-how to do something with all the wonderful fabrics on the first floor?  Now you can.  Wednesday, November 4th will kick off sewing classes

Take four master's students in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture, one In Rem house bought at auction, and a two-year program that challenges the students to create a living environment, and you have "Quad Space". The students who created it are Michael-John Bailie, Paul Dudkowski, Ernest Ng and Dan Stripp, and they invite all to attend a viewing on Saturday, October 17th, from 12 to 5 PM.

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Buffalo Developer Carl Paladino picked up another piece of property this week, and a BR reader wrote us about it with the following note:

Hello, I just read this story in Business First about Mr. Paladino's recent real estate acquisitions and found something interesting.

He purchased the former

Bicycles & Beer in Buffalo! What more could you ask for? Bikes & Beer in Buffalo with Lederhosen, of course!

Biketoberfest, featuring Rusty Chain beer from local brewer Flying Bison, is taking place at the Lafayette Tap Room (391 Washington St.) from 5:30PM to 8PM on Thursday, October 22nd.

For

Toronto-based datacenter services company CentriLogic Inc. will make Buffalo its second U.S. office, they announced.  The company plans on bringing 50-100 highly-skilled jobs to Buffalo over the next three years.

CentriLogic opened their first US office in Rochester in 2007, and had been looking to expand.  They will locate in the Main Place Tower. 

"Buffalo was appealing to us for many reasons," said CentriLogic CEO Robert Offley, "from its highly-skilled workforce and accessibility to power and its proximity to Rochester and Toronto.  With Buffalo on