Good luck! I hope she does well. Too bad that she and Michael Attardo of Get Dressed couldn't have figured out a way to share some of the space in the old Gamler Jewelers Building. With so little retail downtown, I would think retail clusters would work better than separate locations (especially with two clothing stores and Ellicott Development being the owner of both buildings). Maybe a collaboration with the diamond/jewelry retailers in the Ellicott Square Building will help instead.
Jenss did not evolve from the Jenny Shop, but it's a nice story. Check out the book "Nine Nine Eight: The Glory Days of Buffalo Shopping" for the scoop.
Queenseye: what does Tim Tielman think about the Jenny's shop? am I missing his quote her on Tielman Rising
Is there any street-front presence, or is the only 'exposure' to the atrium?
"I’m putting all of my own equity into this business because it is impossible for a small business to get a start-up loan. That was the discouraging part. I want other entrepreneurs to know that it's hard to find capital. If you’re opening a retail operation it’s a risky venture because you're on your own. I’m putting my own personal investment into the business and the city."'
Is this true? Sad to hear.
wouldnt it be incredible to add those extra 10 floors!
What is rather suprising is why there is only 1 Ellicott Square building in Buffalo? This open centered atrium with surrounding offices was really considered the ultimate modern concept of an office building. one would think that any Buffalo architect would be looking at the Ellicott Square and considering all sorts of modern interpretations.
Its to bad the Memorial Auditorium couldnt have been converted into an Ellicott Style office building with a central atrium
Its a cool thought I wonder how the additional ten floors could ever blend in with the old
Sell the air rights to The Related Companies and see what could sprout above the old Ellicott.
Timat buffalo
It is wonderful to see the investment back in the downtown area. i'm sure that the original stores didn't have a subsidy, it was about service and style!
I have been fortunate to have been in the Ellicott Square Building many a time and find it breath taking in its design and materials. Unfortunatly in today's poor thinking of lighting that someone has replaced the incondesent lights in the fixtures with floresent bulbs and have given the entire building a glow of crack house depression. At the holiday time with it's huge beautiful tree it would be nice to view the party guest with warmth and life! This has been an on going trend of Buffalo in many areas, such as street lighting insted of sodium vapor bulbs which give a sence of warmth the city has put it self in a 20 year contract to only purchase mercury vapor lighting which gives an illumination of grey and cold depression although putting out more foot candels they do not give the viewer depth and often find the user with more difficulty in seeing .Recently while on Main Street the other night my friend unpromted said "doesn't it look so cold here even the lights remind you of snow balls I can't wait to get back to Florida" and we turned the corner into the sodium lighting and he said "now i feel warmer". Please take note when driving down Bidwell and Lincon Parkway and then turn onto Argyle where the former mayor lives and see for yourself if you wouldn't rather live on a street that in illuminated tastefully.
Ther comes a time when comfort, style and taste should hold over economics and engineering!
yes I agree with you on the lighting and as lighting converts to LEDs....that consume even less power than mercury vapor and florescent this problem will solve itself in due time.
How I long for another office building in Buffalo like the Ellicott Square Building...but with a more modern interpretation?
One summer when I was in high school., I worked in The Jenny Shop which was in the Statler Hotel, located on the Delaware Avenue side. I remember that I lied about my age being 16, when I was really only 15. Did I ever feel "big"!!!!
The photo makes it look bleak and depressing - where are all the people? At the galleria I su8ppose.
"Bleak and depressing",Sally? I would never have expected that kind of response from you! By the way, the people were all inside The Jenny Shop hiding from the photographer as they were celebrities on a discreet junket to Buffalo to load up on all things "local". In the image above, Nicole Kidman is the woman cleverly disguised as a piano.
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