Elmwood Village Hotel Informational Community Meeting
The meeting is being presented by the Community of the Arts Good Neighbor Planning Alliance & Forever Elmwood. Plans will be on display beginning at 5:00 PM; Meeting begins at 5:30 PM • Learn about the proposed Elmwood Village Hotel for the southeast corner of Elmwood & Forest from representatives of Savarino Construction Services Corp. and The Frizlen Group, Architects • Hear about the next steps in this proposed project. All are welcome to attend. For more information contact: Bill Parke, Community Planner at: (716) 851-5123 - OR Justin Azzarella, Executive Director, Forever Elmwood Corp. at: (716) 881-0707.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 | 5:00 PM Preview & 5:30 PM Meeting at Burchfield-Penney Art Center Gallery Buffalo State College, Rockwell Hall, 3rd Floor 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222. (One block north from the intersection of Elmwood & Forest) Parking: On-campus parking opportunities tend to be limited. Reserved handicapped parking and metered spaces are located behind Rockwell Hall off Iroquois Drive. There is no charge to park on campus after 5 PM. •
is there a location for the meeting or do we need to call for that?
Check the continue button bman ;)
It IS unclear where the Saturday meeting is being held.
Is it at the FE office, below Fleet Feet?
I LOVE the Hotel design at this corner! I think it will be a fantastic attraction for Elmwood businesses as well as the art galleries and our great City of Buffalo as a whole.
Yes - it is sad that some long time businesses will have to relocate or close, however it is a really good thing for Buffalo's Elmwood Village district. as a whole. Times are changing and it all looks awesome in the designs I have seen! I cannot wait to see the new dynamics of this corner and that end of Elmwood once this hotel is complete.
I am completely confident that this is a GREAT step in the right direction for our entire area.
http://www.foreverelmwood.org/index.php?src=events&srctype=profile&id=14584
Do you mean Saturday's meeting that was posted one post before this one? That info is in regards to another post entirely.
I wish that the Good Neighbor Planning Alliance and Forever Elmwood would expand to include Forest (Richardson), Grant and Niagara Street!
With everything good thats happening on Elmwood, how about getting involved with the New Millenium Groups plan for Niagara Street!
How about an inexpensive trolly going from HealthNow up Niagara past Rich's to the Bristol Myers Factory on Forest, down Forest past the Richardson and Buffalo State to Elmwood and down Elmwood back to HealthNow. Think about it thats a huge amount of people that could be served and it would be huge for the entire Westside.
Im just saying, I dont like the B-P Gallery but there are other major westside projects that could use attention too!
Bob ........
Great ideas. Any type or trolly or expansion of the metro rail would be of great benefit to the city.
The Buffalo news had an article about returning traffic to main street this morning, Brian Higgins made the point that for projects like there needs to be an effort made locally and the funding would come. I think the same would go for expansion of the metro under elmwood and/or niagara.
The hotel project just adds to that need
I love the idea ,and hope to see it happen
the above photo is every reason to pull those buildings down.
Unable to make the meeting but my first reaction is where are all the people who were up in arms about Pano's house being torn down? Why is this suddenly, and without any prior news leading up to this announcement, the thing to do? If I had any say in it, I'd tear down the businesses on the West side of the street, give a grant/low interest business loan to the businesses across the street in those houses! Make them look like the businesses between Delevan and Auburn and points South on Elmwood. This had to have been in the planning stages, if not further along, while all the hoopla about Pano's was going on and I did attend that meeting at Bullfeather's. I wouldn't stay in this hotel if there with a long-time, well known, college bar across the street...Has this thing really been thought through? I simply don't see the positives over the negatives. Please if it's not too late..which it most like is...put the brakes on and rethink this one. Granted the houses along this portion of the strip have not looked their best through the last few years. I remember going to businesses in these homes in the early seventies. I just can't see a building that is similar to the building now in Kenmore at Nash and Delaware, being on Forest and Elmwood. I really think it will ruin the very appeal Forever Elmwood and others have strived to bring about and maintain for us all and I just don't get the reasoning behind this project.