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100+ crazy comments in 3....2....1.....

This makes me smile. This will bring a very positive spotlight to the circle which will hopefully help the hospital site get redeveloped.

Good. Although I have to say it will be weird ( in a good way) to see all this construction going on at one time in the city.

is there undergound parking or will the hospital be turned into a ramp for tenants with a connecting tunnel?

...let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Yippee!!

wait...WTF!? Apparently common sense won the day, is this still Buffalo or did I wake up somewhere else this morning? Thank God!

Can I watch SPAULDING97?...[lol good news on the tower also]

Hoo ray!!!

icecreamsub - According to the previous BR article linked above, there's to be underground parking for 123 cars.

Ironic that the blue blood building next door should see property values benefit, not decline. Having 66 new upscale neighbors tends to do that, and most of their views really won't be hurt at all. The lawsuit was really pointless.

yup. Good stuff.

WHAT ABOUT THE SUPERHEATING!?!?

most are yellow joshua, but remember the circles have no lights [or yield signs]

nonono... what's the definition of a schmoe? I want to see if I fit.

Great news.... I swear this was dead as the Adelphia tower, but those extra hail mary's paid off

what will be even better is in 10 years when all those park lane folks see appreciation on their units and are grateful for the construction. This will be the quote in the Snews from some tenant who just saw an increase in the value of their property when it was found they were involved with the lawsuit: (AHEM)(Best park lane resident/Thurston Howell voice)

"No no no, you've got it all wrong. I was ALWAYS in favor of the tower, it was the process we questioned. We were just sticklers for protocol. Rules have to be followed. We wanted the construction, we just wanted it done right! So are there any units currently available"??

what will be even better is in 10 years when all those park lane folks see appreciation on their units and are grateful for the construction. This will be the quote in the Snews from some tenant who just saw an increase in the value of their property when it was found they were involved with the lawsuit: (AHEM)(Best park lane resident/Thurston Howell voice)

"No no no, you've got it all wrong. I was ALWAYS in favor of the tower, it was the process we questioned. We were just sticklers for protocol. Rules have to be followed. We wanted the construction, we just wanted it done right! So are there any units currently available"??

HAHA the stupid NIMBYs lost

wow, this building doesn't fit the neighborhood at all. looks like something that should be downtown and not around one of buffalo's best circle and parkway.

maybe they should add 2-3 storeys, first floor retail etc....

I'm only kidding this is great!!

just goes to show you that with a little hard work and some intelligence, you can defeat anti-development liberals any day of the week...

ta: i consider myself liberal, am "anti-development" in the sense that there are alot of bad projects/ideas out there which shouldn't be completed, but am for this tower. are those in favor of bass pro right wing lunatics? what's with the labels?

hp - there's exceptions to every rule...

man, i wish i had the dough to buy one of these places... :(

This is great news!!!! A tall and modern structure that looks like it will fit well in this neighborhood. Can't wait to see it soon.

Two relatively tall buildings next to each other.... Are we in New York Shitty - er City?

Great News!

I wonder though, if the commentor Spaulding is the same character that was Judge Smails nephew in Caddyshack?

This is great news...not just for the construction of a new residential tower and the effect it will have on Delaware.

I think everyone should be breathing a sigh of relief...even the Park Lane residents. Now with the tower being built its going to be enormously easier to redevelop Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital. Had the park lane residents won they would have been stuck with both an empty lot where the tower would have been built but also a decade long empty hospital complex.

The Gate Circle residential tower is going to increase the value of the Millard Fillmore Hospital and its likely redevelopment into apartments, retail, hotel, conference center, etc.

It was really a question of the tower getting built and then the redevelopment of the hospital or the crime and decay between Main and Linwood spreading right up to Delaware and to the front door of the Park Lane!!!!!

Now we need a bold developer to come up with a reskinning proposal for the hospital similar to the Dulski!

Awesome! thats all I can say AWESOME, now if we could just bury Ralph in the foundation and buy the Bills we'd be all set

yes! :)

I can live with being a schmoe.... Be called a hell of a lot worse

Oh, wow! You have it now. At street level, the architecture rivals the entrance to the average community-college library, and not much more happens above. The prospective owners get a magnificent view. Who gets to look at them? Well, who cares? This is PROGRESS! A trophy tower for a dying city.

pgf1948: You nailed it.

Great Decision

pgf1948....what would you prefer the entrance to look like? Maybe you can break out the Crayola's, and post a picture here for all to see? I'm sure you could do a much better design of the structure. Armchair architects usually think they can.....

Can't we all just be happy?.... This is a great addition to the city!

Paging EricOak - Lets here how this building with not match our "urban fabric" - and how Olmstead will be rolling over in his grave because the new building will be encroaching Olmstead circle - comedy.

It is a nice win for the people of buffalo for a change. Nice to see that a select few can not hold an entire city hostage. Something tells me this is not the end of it - just waiting for the appeal.

spelling error - hear

Olmsted, not Olmstead. That was has him turning over in his grave.

Thanks Charger, I will make a note - I think that is one of the funnier things I read on this site.

Is it Olmsted, rolling over or turning over in his grave.

Does anyone know what the modern day Olmsted might want for this town.

My guess, the price range will start out at $400K and not much below that. No way are you going to see anything in the range of $200K unless the condo is less than 1000 sq ft. Just a hunch but we'll see.

I believe $450 - $2mil is the range

For people that plan this type of building...one suggestion. I was called some time ago and asked thirty minutes worth of questions about the type of 'unit' I'd prefer. The caller was polite enough, and started out simply enough with somewhat pedestrian questions like...'would you consider a condo downtown'...when the person realized I knew the difference between Gates Circle and Gold Circle, the questions changed in detail. The questioner went into great detail asking which I'd prefer .."would you prefer ten extra square feet in bedroom two, or one extra foot out on the terrace..." Anyway... I believe my responses would have been more worthwhile had I been presented a floor plan, and ranked preferences. I'm not sure the information collected over the phone was worth the time and money it took to collect it.

If you have an opinion that someone wants... but, that was my point, it had to do with Buffalo development, so I was patient, however, I don't believe it was the proper way to collect the data. Do you see my name and just go in to bitch mode, or are you like this with everyone? God love the person that puts up with you.

holy shit maybe there is hope for this city. great news. i love when obstructionists lose.

It's great to see this project get a clear path to move forward. What a great addition to the city. I only wonder if the market can support this, and the new waterfront highrise in addition to what Mr. Issa has planned for the Buffalo City Tower. So far, it seems that the answer is yes.

This one building, all by itself, will scream out - BUFFALO IS ALIVE!!

...but this comment is sooo worthwhile.

I agree that this building, from the views up and down delaware that people will have of this building, the views people will have seeing it rise above the trees from Olmsted's parkways, the very contemporary feel to it will be a new showpeice for the city.

This if it gets filled will bring tons of money into the city from people who don't want to live in, maintain, and pay for a McMansion and the ridiculous amounts of utilities they have to pay for. These units by default are going to require about 1/5 the heating as a single family detached house would of the same size.

That frees up hundreds of dollars, potentially every winter month, that they coudl either save, to spend and put back into the economy. The economy doesn't grow by dumping money away in utilities. I think Olmsted would love this building on his circle. It is inviting, vertical, slender, It actually probably have less of a footprint and negative impact on his circle than the parking drop off does now.

It is simply going to be one of the best additions to our city in 20 years. This is a win for everyone. Even those old blue bloods in the condo tower behind them.

tony. there are probably more exceptions than realities.

Wait, here come the labor unions with their $50 an hour broom pushers. D'OH!!!!!

Before BR writes a hysterical article based on bflover's joke, Uniland is an example of a successful non-union developer here. Their recent project next to Ch 2 was picketed by unions a very short while before a court ordered the picketing to stop. Maybe they treat workers pretty well and don't have kinds of problems you-know-who allegedly has on both sides ot the Atlantic.

I could care less where this building goes up as long as it goes up, but is this really the best location for something like this. Wouldn't it be better suited downtown with vies of the lake? It would drastically improve our skyline.

This is not the greatest location.

I think a node of high rises here with views looking back down the parkway are a perfect place. Kind of like First Presbetarian and The Old Psych Center framing in the ends of RIchmond Ave.