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This sounds HOTTT!!!! Would be great to see this part of town be a new "Hot Spot" in town, the more choices, the better.

This sounds HOTTT!!!! Would be great to see this part of town be a new "Hot Spot" in town, the more choices, the better.

looks very exciting...

Interesting project in a highly visible location. One suggestion is to re-think the design of Phase II. Windows need to be much larger, right now it looks like a parking ramp. Go for it.

This plan looks like a great idea and appears to be marketed toward the right demographic. If I was a student, I would certainly want to live in this location compared to the options available elsewhere. Good luck with the project.

Being fickle, but how about dropping "Village" from the name. It seems to be a bit overused.

I'm not quite able to picture that piece of Niagara Street right now. What is the building infrastructure like right now to accommodate additional retail and residential development

Instead of a massive parking lot, how about a parking ramp as this project sounds like it'll eventually grow and need more parking anyways. PLUS, you can some of the first floor of a ramp for future uses such another cafe, restaurants, etc. .Just my thought.

Is part of the appeal here that Canada still has a lower drinking age than the US? Or are they at 21 now too?

calling a parking lot 'green' is hypocritical. It wouldn't matter if the cars parked in the middle of the woods. It isn't green to require highways, promote the spread out nature of an automobile society, build such huge machines to move individual people, leak oils and random fluids into the earth etc etc.. All outside of the current emissions from the tailpipe.

Outside of that and the fact you can't rule out the current necessity of the car, this is still a very good idea and an interesting location. This stretch of Tonawanda Street is very open and has a couple really interesting industrial buildings left standing. Most have been torn down at this point.

It is close to Black Rock's businesses just up Niagara by Amherst street but unfortunately there isn't a lot of built infrastructure around there to house new spin off developments. Most things would have to be new construction.

The amenities of this are would be rather nice also. Squaw Island park is near here, Riverside Park is just up the street with the whole of the Riverwalk and Delaware park bike paths intersecting right here also. It would also be nice to infuse a little investment between Black Rock and the Upper West Side to help stabilize areas north. Many problems in both these areas are from people coming north from the west side to cause trouble.

Will like to watch to see if this has any legs. They will need to do a fair amount of research to convince students to move farther from campus than they would normally. Remember students are lazy and want to role out of bed 10 minutes before class starts. To bring them away from campus and their current locations isn't impossible but you need to market it properly and give them the amenities they desire to make it worth the commute.

This would be great for our neighborhood and we would welcome this project. The potential for spinoff developement is real and doable unlike the proposed ambassador bridge which would destroy the livability of the entire area.

I believe this CAN work, Think about it. A mixture of housing, retail, eateries, and entertainment. Re-use of other buildings in the area (just mentioned on this site recently about two old warehouses being converted into housing and office along Niagara Street). An interest in this part of town is no secret now, I do think it'll work and take time to get more and more involved, but this is a great start. Look at the Cobblestone District, or Chippewa Street, Who would have Thought untill someone took an interest?

wonderful design and combination of ideas but for me the location makes no sense. Its like putting an in ground pool underneath some power lines. I love the potential for growth on Niagara street, however a project like this deserves more viability.

I am having a hard time envisioning where this is located exactly. What is a nearby address I can use to map it?

point of reference..north of Campbell's Tavern ...just south of Tee Tu Green driving range

instead of developing over brownfields and selling eco-friendly living, why not take on added expense to properly implement this plan for its real purpose? I don't see how this project can be anything but a mixed-use revitalization project for the aesthetics of a community? Not some self contained gilligans island, but a real community jump starter. Northeastern university does an amazing job at bringing the college/student campus to the street. I would like to see a project that would increase property value and the place with the most potential for impact is grant and forest. I have driven through here on my segway and its evident that the college might be some where, it's just not on this corner. To create an exciting use of space would increase the demand placed on revitalizing grant street and take some of the pressure from whatever is supose to go on at forest and elmwood. They could redevelop the Wilson Farms block and build a connecting bridge across grant (similar to the original plans). perhaps build a fair sized parking garage on the corner of rees and forest and connect that with a bridge. It just seems like the businesses and the empty land would not hold back a project that would bring 300 beds. This project could find a way to accommodate the businesses they would be building over.The key here is street presence and no longer something for nothing.

Here's an overhead map that shows how the buildings currently look.

First off I must comment on all those who have posted negatively on this project. I am a Buffalo State student and honestly cannot wait for this project to unfold. Buff State has a HUGE on campus housing shortage and countless amounts of students (hundreds) must now find their own source of housing. This location is ideal, especially as the campus is expanding westward in the direction of this development (referring to the planned new Buffalo State Stadium across Grant St. from Houston gym/ Buckham Campus School). Another thing that I must address is that students do not decide where they are going to live based on whether or not the area is "interesting" or not! students base their decision on affordability and location in respects to campus. If the area is "interesting" then thats a bonus!

This location is minutes from Buffalo State, and is extremely close to major highways...so this project has followed the basic concept of real estate which is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!!! The developer, Mr. Hogle, should be applauded for his efforts for this project is not only adding new life to a decaying plot of land, but is also making much needed housing avaiable to many students.

And although I respect the views of all the posters on this site, I must disagree with several comments! @Monorail: Thousands of students that attend Buffalo State and countless local colleges, do so because their parents pay for tuition and room/board. Countless parents pay to have their students stay in apartments and other sorts of off-campus housing...so why wouldnt this location recieve the same kind of attention from parents looking to house their children close to school!? It would! @PaulBuffalo: Maybe this location seems to be a deolate location now, but the developer has many forms on entertainment planned. Not to mention, the location is going to be serviced by a shuttle. Buffalo State is serviced by an express shuttle that runs from important locations on campus to Tops (on Grant) and then to Wegmans (on Amherst), so it is factual that someone residing in this new development could easily reach Tops/ BK/ Wegmans in less than 10 minutes by bus. Not to mention, but an increasing amount of student now have their own vechicles, so many shopping locations are really only 5 minutes away by car.

It may not be my place to say this but it seems this website is plagued by to many pecimistic people. Any new development creates a new source of tax revenue for the city. Those who dis-like the projects/plans that are brought to light by this website should stop complaining! If you think you can do it better, become a developer yourself! The people that design the projects you see on this website arent stupid, it's their money on the line in these projects! Even if some of the projects do recieve public assistance, a large portion of the funding is from the developers own funds.

First off I must comment on all those who have posted negatively on this project. I am a Buffalo State student and honestly cannot wait for this project to unfold. Buff State has a HUGE on campus housing shortage and countless amounts of students (hundreds) must now find their own source of housing. This location is ideal, especially as the campus is expanding westward in the direction of this development (referring to the planned new Buffalo State Stadium across Grant St. from Houston gym/ Buckham Campus School). Another thing that I must address is that students do not decide where they are going to live based on whether or not the area is "interesting" or not! students base their decision on affordability and location in respects to campus. If the area is "interesting" then thats a bonus!

This location is minutes from Buffalo State, and is extremely close to major highways...so this project has followed the basic concept of real estate which is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!!! The developer, Mr. Hogle, should be applauded for his efforts for this project is not only adding new life to a decaying plot of land, but is also making much needed housing avaiable to many students.

And although I respect the views of all the posters on this site, I must disagree with several comments! @Monorail: Thousands of students that attend Buffalo State and countless local colleges, do so because their parents pay for tuition and room/board. Countless parents pay to have their students stay in apartments and other sorts of off-campus housing...so why wouldnt this location recieve the same kind of attention from parents looking to house their children close to school!? It would! @PaulBuffalo: Maybe this location seems to be a deolate location now, but the developer has many forms on entertainment planned. Not to mention, the location is going to be serviced by a shuttle. Buffalo State is serviced by an express shuttle that runs from important locations on campus to Tops (on Grant) and then to Wegmans (on Amherst), so it is factual that someone residing in this new development could easily reach Tops/ BK/ Wegmans in less than 10 minutes by bus. Not to mention, but an increasing amount of student now have their own vechicles, so many shopping locations are really only 5 minutes away by car.

It may not be my place to say this but it seems this website is plagued by to many pecimistic people. Any new development creates a new source of tax revenue for the city. Those who dis-like the projects/plans that are brought to light by this website should stop complaining! If you think you can do it better, become a developer yourself! The people that design the projects you see on this website arent stupid, it's their money on the line in these projects! Even if some of the projects do recieve public assistance, a large portion of the funding is from the developers own funds.

perhaps some of the proposal gives reason to be pessimistic? i have spent plenty of recent years at buffalo state and i don't see the connection. The buildings would be a nice way to get out of the indstural time slot, i just don't see how the proposal carrys as much apipitude because of the location.