Keep going Avalon! Another terra cotta facade for this new acquisition perhaps? The west side of the block could use your help- those huge lots are an embarrassment. Kudo's Full Circle!
Keep going Avalon! Another terra cotta facade for this new acquisition perhaps? The west side of the block could use your help- those huge lots are an embarrassment. Kudo's Full Circle!
I took a tour at Full Circle studios a couple years back for one of my courses and I'd have to say that this is a definite improvement from their current location. The one they are in now, although nice and modern, is practically hidden from anyone looking to find it. All the way down in the basement of some building just a step over from Studio Arena. It took me a four other people 5-10 minutes to find the correct building since there was no signage or indication that we were heading in the right direction. Not harping on the people though. They were very nice and extremely professional and it appears that they're certainly doing well enough to move up to a newer and bigger facility.
Congrats to Jim, Terry, and Kevin! It is great to see local businesses thrive and expand!
Wait let me look outside... wow I am in Buffalo. I almost forgot for a minute there with this river of good news that has been flooding in the past few weeks! Couldn’t be happier right now; well maybe if the BCT started tomorrow with out of town companies filling it to the brim :)
Isn't this just transplanting a business from location to another? So they leased a larger space but are there jobs created or any extra benefits for the city? Now we have an empty space where they used to be.
....which will be inexpensive incubator space for another fledgling new enterprise.
It's refreshing to hear about businesses moving into the donut hole that is downtown. : )
SteveP - not only are they expanding into a space triple the original size, the Ansonia is already renovated and ready for a new tenant. There will be a renovation to this Avalon building to bring it back onto the business playing field. Maybe Squeaky Wheel will take over some of that vacated footage.
Congratulations Jim and Terry, you're a pleasure to work with and do magnificent work!
well you guys are touting the fact that we have a new place to rent out for business, as if we didn't have enough of those already. Its clearly a lateral move. Great for the company, I'm not saying anything bad about them. Does ready for a new tenant equal a vacancy waiting to be filled?
A lateral move in some respects but they are now taking a much larger space so there is a net decrease in available space a positive!
This block needs two way traffic! The suedo parking lot it currently is doesn't do much for development. Just fininshed scanning the Traffic on Main St Study - 145 pages but alot of interesting info - including the staggering $75 million price tag! No wonder it hasn't happened yet. Someday maybe.
...http://www.nfta.com/MainStreet/EA%20May%202006%205-3-06.pdf
I don't agree about the two way traffic. I might not mind it, but I think one way works well here because Tupper is essentially an on ramp to the 33 at this point, and exiting at Main is fairly easy now (you feel pressure from people behind you as they rush to get onto the 33 just as you slow to turn left, but still it's pretty easy). The turn would be tighter if there were oncoming traffic on Main to worry about. Right now if you're heading south on Main or west on Goodell and you want to get to the 700 block of main you are simply routed around Pearl to Tupper: quick and easy. I could be talked into 2 way, but I'm not sold.
The pseudo parking lot does indeed do something for development there. Ask any of the businesses on that block if the on street parking is important to them. Ask the residents. The good news will keep coming on this block. Now that the Vernor building is a memory, the owner (a deep pocketed developer out of Cleveland who also owns the apartment building on the northeast corner of Delaware and North as well as plenty of other holdings) can pursue what he has long wanted: to build new residential condos on his site. He was precluded from doing so by the Vernor building, which he was uninterested in restoring and incorporating into any development. He successfully demolished by neglect that building, which in the eyes of many would have been a jewel of a redo. With its neighbor also demolished this busy corner (Pearl and Main) comprises one of the larger development sites truly available downtown (that is, not currently used as surface parking).
Maybe you contrast the laggardly development of the 700 block to the much earlier 600 block redevelopment. You look at car parking and say: see? It didn't help! But that ignores big government investments in the 600 block which were never duplicated on the 700 block as well as the 600 block's more central location.
If for any reason Mr. Shiffrin does not build what he said he wants, someone else will build something good on the site. It's a great site.
Great job Chris and Full Circle! Shameless plug: I brokered the deal between John Little and Chris Jacobs to get Chris his first buildings on this block. He's doing everything right. What a great boon for that block. And for Full Circle, this is a step up; it's not lateral.
Good news does feel surreal, doesn't it?
The Kensington needs to be downgraded back to Humboldt Parkway between Tupper and Jefferson.
The Elm Oak Arterial needs to go.
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