Profile for brian_123
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- Hi everyone. I'm a new user of this site and haven't updated my bio yet, but feel free to send me a message if you would like to know more about me.
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- on 27/6/08
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Did you know that there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to convert part of a historic building to a Maritime Center? Yes, this idea was crafted by John Montague of the ... Continue Reading
Paul, i dont know. not that im all sold on a hypothetical idea, but taxing a behavior that you want to discourage seems like one common governmental leverage point. ie, want to discourage smoking, tax c...
Jump to storyAl-alo, I'm all for reinvestment in any city's housing and I'm not a fan of suburbs (but I don't blame the suburbs for everything that ails Buffalo). I agree with you that western New York has poor land use...
Jump to storyPaulBuffalo said: ". . .you think Buffalo can magically dedicate tax dollars (from suburbanites?) and find private funds to 'entice' folks to move to the second-poorest city in the country?" Paul, ...
Jump to storyBufalogal, thank you for the details. Does the GSA decommissioning mean that the George Segal sculpture will not remain in Buffalo or will it be located elsewhere in the city?
Jump to storyWearing my official hat as one who works on the project - The "holes" on the top three floors are the recessed balconies of the residences on the top three floors. The sculpture and other signature details ...
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brian_123's Comments
Construction Watch: Near East Side
Is Buffalo Rising doing a companion peice to show the houses 5 blocks over in various stages of disrepair? We have many more houses keeping demolition crews busy than we do construction crews. Do you think their might be a correlation?
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Marco's Restaurant: Bring the Family!
Getting Fish Fry at Marcos is like getting a Salad at McDonalds. I'd love to see a negative restaurant review for once. Why not send someone to Applebees and say how crappy it is there.
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New Faces at City Hall
In reply to Thinker, Drew Eszak did do most of the work for the Framework for Regional Growth, so I do think that he did a lot of good work. Maybe Collins let Eszak go because he wasn't as anti-Buffalo as Collins was.
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Hanging on to our Film Commission and Bed Tax Dollars
By using the CVBs logic, I should get a percentage of the bed tax because so many of wife's family had to fly in from out of town and stay in hotels to go to our wedding... Does anybody else think that until the tourism industry is mandated to payi…
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