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This most definitely should not be on Elmwood

More homes and businesses should not be demolished

Especially when Millard Fillmore Gates is available and has parking and is begging for a re-use plan

If not Millard Fillmore Gates then relocate to the Life Sciences corridor but it does not belong on Elmwood any longer!

That is not the building that they plan on constructing

If I recall correctly that building on the corner is what somebody said should be done, and not the hospital's plan which would leave that lot as parking with the new buildings going up on the opposite side of hodge where they want to knock the houses down.

Perhaps some clarification or back story links?

Sure buffaloweiner.. just pick up the rest of the hospital and move it!! Thank you for brining common sense to the table.

Elmwood has become such a pain in the @$$ place to do business in, let's not even talk about the fact that this is a Children's Hospital that will be held up because some stuck up resident has an issue on how the addition will look from his giant house next door.

Sorry about that folks. The image originally with this story came from here and I meant to include the image from this story. They were in the same folder and I attached the wrong image. My apologies.

BuffaloWeiner... good thought. After surviving blight and the near death of Elwmood Avenue (pre-in pretentious yuppie enclave), it should now move because Elmwood is suddenly people friendly, wealthier and more of a neighborhood?

Talk about regressive and ignorant, this is the attitude that keeps people from doing business in Buffalo.

Let me be the first to tell you... Elmwood is an urban corridor. Urban corridors are mixed use, entailing residential commericial, institutional and civic buildings and uses. If you don't like the mix, move to Clarence were your segrationist attitude will be welcomed with open arms.

the design in the "wrong image" was so much better than this one. I don't understand why it is so unlikely that a good design decision will be made in Buffalo.

The great irony of the expansion is that if the hospital is there to provide care to the sick, why would they build the largest parking lot in the city north of downtown whose storm water impact would exacerbate major health problems with local waterways as illustrated with recent sewage overflows into the buffalo river (at the commercial slip), impacting not only river health but theatening human health as well. If however they consolidated parking into a garage and then put a green roof atop the garage or diverted water from the garage roof into a constructed wetland they could avoid their contribution to the degredation of local waterways and the threat to human health. A wise move for an institution in the business of public health. If you get a chance to look at their site plan, take a look at the parking, it is astounding. Where once there was a neighborhood...

nyc - why would a hospital that is making money off of curing the sick want to build a design that promotes good public health?

The hospital and many people in power feel that this hospital should get a pass on this project, and disregard neighborhood impact just because its a hospital serving children. The reality is that Kaleida and the hospital are an enormous business that make a ton of money. There is no reason that we can not hold them to standards of good urban design and positive neighborhood impact. They can afford to do a much better project than what they are proposing, which keeps costs to a minimum while increasing the parking and available office space for doctors to rent, which will ultimately bring in more revenue.

This isn't about a deficiency in the level of care that Children's Hospital is able to provide, but rather about Kaleida taking a huge opportunity to bring in ALOT more revenue. It should be treated just like any other business or office space expansion.

buffaloweiner is definitely Chris69. welcome back dude.

Move Children's Hospital to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus where it should have been all along!!!!

It just doesnt make sense....to have Millard Fillmore Gates close. It has operating rooms, patient rooms, parking lots, etc... and remain empty for what we can see as a very long time while we are reconstructing a childrens hospital nearly in total including demolition of the hospital itself and demolition of its parking lot and demolition of additional homes and businesses.

From a business and taxpayer point of view...its wasteful and stupid

No one knows exactly what the hospital wants to build because they're giving out contradictory information. Trying to work with WCHOB on this is daunting--they simply won't be straightforward about their long term plans; they seem to have no longterm comprehensive strategy for their presence in the neighborhood.

One thing is for sure--you'd better get used to much more surface parking in the Elmwood/Hodge neighborhood.

... tearing down four old, beautiful homes to build this thing; check. ... building a sea of more surface parking in a residential neighborhood; check. hospital providing confusing and contradictory facts about this project similar to their plans about the helipad; check. the hospital again relying on doing things the least expensive way possible and damn to the neighbors; check. hey; what's not to like?

Two big thumbs up! I hope this project goes through! It gives that corner a much needed urban look...Lets not see this development stopped dead by those "annoying preservationists" who would rather save a few houses when something great like this expansion could be accopmlished!

Glad you're so well educated on the subject, BuffaloSTATEcollege2011.... the project isn't even on a corner or intersection. Its midblock on Hodge. (the building anyways) Not only that, its not the building that most people are upset about, its the massive increase in surface parking on their current campus as well as expanding over to W. Utica Street.

But hey, love the attitude - somebody wants to build something, it must be good! Those damn preservationists & obstructionists protecting our neighborhoods...how dare they....