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Gotta say that I just love the Botanical Garden. I recommend everyone visit it atleast 4x a year....in every season...because its really magnificent.

If there is a drawback, then it has to do with South Buffalo in general. The Botanical Gardens and the Olmsted Park need another cultural anchor of some type...but then if one looks at Cazenovia and South Park, then the question defies logic because this area is ripe for new residential development. There are people that love the amenities of South Buffalo but dont live there because the existing housing stock isnt suitable.

No matter, the Botanical Gardens are a Buffalo treasure.

truestar I know whats in South Buffalo. Ive lived there and I have friends there but if your suprised that few people go downtown then even fewer still visit and patronize South Buffalo. That was my point.

truestar I was speaking with regards to a cultural cluster and to that effect I should have added the Basilica.

As far as South Buffalo not needing pricey converted lofts because of their nuclear families, well to me thats just ignorant. A community should have a residential community with a mix of residence types and incomes because it attracts people that have different needs. I know people that cannot handle stairs of any kind so for them its either a ranch or an apartment with an elevator. I know people that would rather live in South Buffalo than Hamburg or West Seneca but they say that they couldnt find something that fits their needs. That was my point.

Lastly, allowing people of different incomes and having the amenities of different types of housing means attracts a range of business to patronize the area. Thats also my point.

now your purposely misrepresenting my comment, misread my comment or lack reading comprehension skills....

Point 1: South Buffalo is 25% of the entire city of Buffalo....take a look at a map....Buffalo doesnt have a westside (thats the niagara river and lake erie). The majority of the city is north and east.

Point 2: I didnt dismiss all the housing on South Buffalo.

Point 3: I merely stated that many of the residences were built at a certain period and that newer residences built in the suburbs rather than within pre-existing developed areas. Thus it lacks diversity in type, style, ;layout, handi-cap, access, attached garage, etc.

May I suggest you look up the meaning of arrogant because my comments are objective and can be backed up in city records and by a visual drive by or even by satellite map.

South Buffalo is a lovely place to live, especially in certain areas. That is far from irresponsible or arrogant. It can be tough in certain areas but the people are are largely nice, law abiding, white and safe. There is no threat of minority gangs, shootings, drugs and violence destroying some sections of the hispanic westside or the black eastside. There is no threat of South Buffalo changing as Loveyjoy and University are in danger of drifting into mixed white/minority, to minority, to gang land mayhem.

There is no reason why South Park or Abbott could not be the equivalent of Elmwood. Of course different and unique to the customers and tastes of that area.

There is no reason why South Buffalo respresents what Buffalo once was and should still be...it has alot going for it....its largely intact...and though there is poverty, it has few of the excuses that blacks and hispanics demonstrate with poverty (truancy, dropouts, illiteracy, drugs, alcohol, single mothers, semen donors that welfare calls fathers, violence, shootings, gangs, etc).

South Buffalo and Lovejoy prove that one can be poor without their entire community collapsing.