buffaloweiner - How does it follow that having too many qualified graduates in the area keeps businesses out of Buffalo? If anything it's the opposite -- all of our great colleges churning out so many graduates should attract businesses. It's the f…

I guess this settles it -- Buffalo really is better than every place else.

metrobflo - your idea is a lot like the "Battery Park City" model that Senator Schumer proposed a few years back

Take a look at what's been done in downtown Washington, DC -- around F Street near Ford's Theatre. They've kept the original facades of old buildings and built new modern ones behind them, keeping the original structures as the street-level entranc…