I'd rather see a new business to increase variety than an expanded Spot or Brodo, neither of which seem especially nice places. Spot may be consistently busy but it's also consistently dirty and slow. Both places need an injection of better service and better interior design.

This is a great solution. I almost never go to Spot on Elmwood because it's hard to find a seat - this would solve it. Good news for Elmwood! I'm still so sad that New World Record is no longer there. Whenever I would get my haircut, or go to Globe Market, I would stumble into NWR, and ultimately walk out with a new CD or two. Oh yeah, Brodo...yummy!

sweet! getting rid of an empty storefront = nothing but good news. I'm not surprised to see a comment downgrading the news already though...some things (will) never change.

I thought that Fleet Feet was moving into this space??

hey can somebody tell me what globe market is?

I would rather see two stable businesses take the space over than a new one that closed in a few months. plus this would add more outdoor seating with any luck!

Hey Hoss, I think that it is actually illegal to smoke inside an awning that is connected to a building like that, but not positive. I think that is is part of the clean air laws. That being said, Soho does this all winter long and it is even worse as their awning has sides and they prop open the doors. I also guess that smoking laws don't stop anyone in most of the old Allentown bars like the Old Pink etc...

Hopefully the larger SPoT will add internet like the DT SPoT has. I asked at the Elmwood store once and they said that they were too small for internet. I didn't understand that answer, but for what it is worth, not having it didn't seem to keep business away...

Glad to see SPoT is expanding. I've spent hundreds (if not thousands....yeeeeshhhh) of dollars in there and never once thought of it as dirty. I HAVE, however, thought of it as being slow. It takes Starbucks half the amount of time to get your drink.....so I'd lately find myself going there instead. Problem with Elmwood Starbucks lately is, that, there too has been a shortage of available seats. They've even thrown one of the outdoor tables and chairs up inside the store near the entrance and exit doors facing north. I like both for different reasons.....SPoT b/c if its local origin and uniqueness, Starbucks b/c of its consistency. Am I incorrect in saying there is room in the market for a second SPoT or Starbucks on Elmwood along the W Utica block? I can see one of them thriving there, too, perhaps in once of those vacancies near the new Bank of America.

good to see Spot expanding but it is a little dirty. mostly due to customers not clearing their own mess when they leave but the staff should still be more on top of taking care of it....maybe this will get fixed because the last time I was there a girl came around to each table asking if anyone needed anything else? .....almost like being waited on...kind of strange but nice......my main issue with this place though that I could never understand is the music they play. It's horrible....so bad it makes you want to take your coffee to go or just sit outside.....Mike & the Mechanics, Richard Marx, Mr. Mister, Starship etc were very wrong the first time around but to have to suffer through it again should not be allowed...you can't tell me that the kids working there like this crap? Even 97 Rock wouldn't stoop this low

Wizard, I'll pass on the butlers but I'll take the mahogany panels--good idea!

The problem with Buffalo is there is no centralized area to "hang out" during the day. Spot and the surronding block are about it, which really isn't much.

There needs to be some kind of attraction on Elmowood or Downtown during the day that will bring people downtown.......other than a bar!

A new mall perhaps? Something, anything.

Appartently, New World Record was not that important to ya'll on Elmwood - It's closing. New World Record to close after 17-year run

Maybe they should not of moved off Elmwood! Can't see how a few recording artists selling over the net can effect a store that much, sounds lame to me. To bad though, hate to see a business close after so many years!

Let me put it this way, that's the way business goes. 1) The business stayed in the City, which was good, right?? 2) After reading the article the store front on Elmwood had a flooding basement, was too small, and rent was too high. 3) The business stayed in the City - did you not have access to a car to locate yourself to No. Bflo? 4) There is heightened potential in No. Bflo with the addition of new stores and resturants.

Blaming New World's closing on moving off Elmwood is like saying Hutch's is the cause of global warming. They made an attempt to shake things up (get some publicity, maybe new customers) with their last move. Give them credit for all the years in business, and at least trying something to stave off what now should have appeared inevitable. The distribution of all media is changing (withness the Hollywood writer's strike, and the key issues) and those that get caught in the transition are only at fault of being in the wrong business, at the wrong time. Good luck to them.

Your welcome leadi and others, I posted this as soon as I saw it in the Bflo news. I figured it would be an important topic to talk about, since I thought it would get the same amount of business regardless of where it was located in the City. (I'm sorry if I seems a bit rash on my first comment.)

who pays that much for the coffe! I canno beleive it. I go to macdonalds they give me a senior dicount. aso im glad they closing down.

who pays that much for the coffe! I canno beleive it. I go to macdonalds they give me a senior dicount. aso im glad they closing down.