monday march 13th 2006
The Annual Scajaquada Creek Clean-Up
buffalorising
The annual Scajaquada Creek Clean-up sponsored by the Grant Amherst Business Association takes place on April 22nd. It is a half or all day event for the more intrepid. We will be meeting at the American Legion Post 1041 on Amherst Street next to Wegman's at 8:30am on Saturday, April 22nd for coffee, doughnuts, tool sign-out and volunteer sign-in.
A hotdog and burger cookout at 1:00pm and a pizza pop and beer party at 7:00pm for those of us who …
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Youive seen houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Now learn about two radically different kinds of buildings designed by Wright: the Blue Sky Mausoleum in Forest Lawn, and the Filling Station in a slide lecture by Patrick Mahoney. The illustrated lecture on New Building Types by Frank Lloyd Wrightis in the 1920s wi…
sunday march 12th 2006
North Buffalo Rail-Trail: End of the Line?
West Coast Perspective
Natale Buildersi proposal for an infill development in North Buffalo near Shoshone Park conflicts with residentsi plans envisioning a greenway trail on the same property, and they are not too pleased. A conce…
saturday march 11th 2006
The Viking Lobster Company!!!
queenseyes
Oh boy, did we stumble upon something good last night... The Viking Lobster Company. Not only is it fun to say that you are heading to dinner there, this is the type of place that you always hoped was in Buffalo, but just never knew where to find it. Finding it is half the battle it seems, as the dinner joint is located off Amherst Street…
STEEL
"We can't save everything!" This is the often heard mantra of those who believe (or would like you to believe) that architectural preservation efforts in Buffalo are responsible for inhibiting or stopping development in the city. Take a look at the image above. It is a post card from the early 1960's showing a very densely built downtown Buffalo from the …
Joan Fedyszyn
As a longtime New Yorker, I always found the quick accessibility that the subway provided to any part of the city, to be a beautiful thing. For all of the controversy it attracts, Buffalois Main St NFTA/Metro Rail is a very important element indeed in the residential development of Downtown Buffalo.
In a recent interv…
friday march 10th 2006
Hot off the press!
Ed Healy
The Buffalo Niagara 2006 Official Visitors Guide is hot off the press and poised to spread the good word about Buffalo, Niagara Falls and all of Western New York. Featuring a killer illustration of the Darwin Martin House by local artist and illustrator Mike Gelen (you've seen his work for years on the Irish Classical Theatre Company posters), the Visitors Guide provides tourists with a comprehensive overview of all there is to see and do in our region.
West Coast Perspective
Upscale living may be coming to Gates Circle. Uniland Development Co. has proposed a 30 to 50 unit condominium project on the site of the long-running Park Lane restaurant at $500,000 to $1M each. Considered by many to be a Buffalo institution, a restaurant has been operating on the site for 83 years. The current building on the site was constructed in…
STEEL
As a young boy I probably had caught glimpses of of the Connecticut Street Armory from car trips to and from Canada or Niagara Falls. But from the thruway it was always something distant, an apparition. As a kid I was very in tune with buildings but, this far off edifice never entered my consciousness the way other buildings had. In tru…
West Coast Perspective
A bit over two months into the new year and development and investment in the City is on a roll. Besides the fantastic new restaurants and stores opening or announced this year, developers are scrambling to capitalize on a hot city real estate market. Hereis a recap at just some of the projects weive looked at this year:
New Developments The Warehouse Lofts504 Elmwood Avenue1000 Block of Main Street
