Inside and Around Oakland Place
You’ve perused the book, now take the tour!
Martin Wachadlo, the author of Oakland Place: Gracious Living in the City, will lead a tour of Oakland Place this Saturday, May 19. Though only one block long, Oakland Place boasts one of the city’s finest residential streetscapes. Martin will share his knowledge of the architecture, history, industrial leaders, and families that built the more than 40 refined and high-quality residences representing a wide range of age, style, and size. We will even get to go inside 3 houses!
The tour meets at 9:30 a.m. at the corner of Oakland and Summer. The cost is $20, and a reservation is required. Call 852-3300 to reserve your place today.
Buffalo Tours is a joint project of the Preservation Coalition and the Landmark Society. For more information, please call 852-3300 or visit www.BuffaloTours.org.
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chris69
Considering that Buffalo is 60% empty...and the escalating prices of quality homes...lets say around Delaware Park and along Delaware Avenue.
Does it take a person with great intellect and forsight to say that there is money to be made around each of the Olmstead Parks....and that $300,000+ whether such quality single family homes as on Oakland or higher density homes such as townhouses/rowhouses..that can also be found on Delaware.
It seems to me that a Developer should be looking at South Park and Cazenovia....which are in extremely stable neighborhoods (though not wealthy....the right developments could attract wealth easily).
Masten and Humboldt as well as Riverside and Front could easily attract another such development
The most interesting thing I find....is that $300,000+ such as Oakland dont require huge amounts of land...and the buyers of such homes dont necessarily want to live only around other people of equal income. Elmwood Avenue proves that beyond a doubt.
Are we zoning people into ghettos by income ... instead of creating communities where the wealthy can live side by side with the middle class as they do in most urban areas....where the advantages are diversity of people, retaurants, retail and parks.
The problem with Buffalo and now Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Kenmore, Tonawanda and other areas that we are not building new housing that people want....and truth be told...we cannot expect to keep livable neighborhoods of older homes....if there arent newer homes making that neighborhood viable. Its then up to people to choose...their starter home perhaps older...their home for their peak earning years....larger and more expensive...and then their home fo retirement probably an apartment.....if you dont have diversity of housing then your neighborhood decays...and thats everyone's problem.
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