Buffalo Rising posted an article on the Eckhardt Building today. Check out the slideshow – they’re all my photos. Not that they’re very good or artistic photos or anything, I just think it’s cool to have a slideshow up on BR. 😉
This weekend was all about the cars. Since starting the search for our house last summer, car care has really been neglected. I really needed to catch up and get at least a coat of wax on my year-and-a-half-year-old WRX. Since the heat was a bit oppressive on Saturday, it was a good day to…
I made up three new words Saturday during our annual picnic in Rochester. I know they’re new because they all returned 0 hits in Google, which I wasn’t even sure was possible. Right now a server at Google HQ is probably flogging itself for failing in it’s role to return at least one paid ad…
I almost spit out my WPOP when I saw Jim Cramer break out the term BANANA on Mad Money last night. So I grabbed my camera, snaped some shots (I’m not geeky enough to have hacked my Tivo… yet) and sent the photos to BuffaloGeek because I consider him responsible for popularizing the term BANANA…
The Buffalo Ruse has a farcical look into the future of the Skyway… The New York State Department of Transportation has issued a dramatic proposal to eliminate the Buffalo Skyway by the year 2019. Instead of demolishing the structure, as a recent urban renewal commission has suggested, The DOT’s plan calls for raising the City…
Derek, I think the photos are great! That’s why I sent them on to BR. The only thing that could have been better would have been the sunshine, but you can’t control that, now can you!? 🙂
It’s indeed a great building. Hopefully, the housing renewal plans cited in today’s ArtVoice can gain traction…it will lead to retail development.
Housing first, retail second. Downtown is finally learning this lesson. Hopefully, the news will continue to be positive for the East Side. There is certainly a lot of intelligent and dedicated people working towards renewal.
Michele has been working with the housing issues there for 3 years. She has accomplished many great things, including getting the city to bargain with prospective buyers. But, yes, the momentum in housing is headed in the right direction.
For some buildings, not necessarily Eckhardt, we don’t have the luxury of time to wait for the area to repopulate. Eckhardt has the luxury of a responsible owner, but even then, the maintenance costs become very burdensome when the vacancy lingers on like it has been. That’s why we started there. Plus, it’s the signature building in Broadway Fillmore.