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. 😉
I really didn’t even intend to try and get Ice Bowl tickets when I woke up this morning. I figured with 75,000 seats the game wouldn’t sell out for quite some time. Then I said to myself, well, if I’m planning on going, I may as well try and get the best tickets possible. So…
First off, the delays at the recently vanquished toll barriers sound much worse in today’s Buffalo News article than they actually are. The day the tolls ended was bad. Every day since then, they haven’t been significantly worse than when they were taking our cash. Possibly a minute or two slower at the Black Rock…
Well, I have to say this has been going a lot quicker than I thought it would. Porting over all my old content has been a breeze, although I’ll probably spend some time in the future reworking some of it. I still need to rework the navigation and fix a slew of UI problems, but…
This week’s Spam article is on a more serious note. Having long been a subscriber of McAfee’s security products, including McAfee SpamKiller, I was very curious as to certain changes made in their recent update from version 7 to 8. In version 7, SpamKiller would download all your mail to a “holding area” passing through…
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.