With the City attempting to lure a grocery store to the corner of Ellicott and Clinton streets, here are two previous posts about urban supermarkets in Los Angeles and Portland. Time and time again we have seen people ‘vote’ for a better urban environment based on where they choose to live and shop. It is why neighborhoods with a traditional urban fabric that encourage walking, provide stimulating streetscapes, and have a mix of necessary building uses, building types, and building ages – Elmwood Village in Buffalo, Silver Lake in Los Angeles, Mission District in San Francisco, or Brooklyn today in…
Author: Ryan Kucinski
The renaissance and development momentum of Buffalo in the past decade has recently brought increasing, national exposure to all of the architecture, event, culture and other tourist-related assets of the City of Buffalo. Equally commendable has been the effort by local organizations such as Buffalo Niagara Enterprise (BNE), Visit Buffalo Niagara, and others who have brought attention to these assets not only to regional and national audiences, but also to local residents who had abandoned and forgotten about the City of Buffalo many years ago. While these initiatives have led to a growing tourist industry, the City of Buffalo is…
This post takes a look at the how the City of Buffalo compares to a recent post on Planetizen.com, here, of 12 Strategies that will improve the vibrancy of a downtown. This post will focus only on the strategies applied to the City of Buffalo – the reasons for why these strategies contribute to a vibrant Downtown are explained in the original article. Buffalo’s Downtown is generally considered the inclusive area bordered by Tupper Street to the north, Michigan Avenue to the east, the Waterfront to the south, and Elmwood Avenue to the west. This post will focus on that…