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Bring on the Wal-Mart!
No matter where Wal-Mart attempts to go, NIMBY’s are sure to be found. Hamburg is no different. According to The Sun a group of 18 whopping people showed up at the Hamburg Planning Board meeting to protest Wal-Mart’s move to the ghost town known as Brierwood Plaza. The group cited several thinly veiled NIMBYistic concerns,…
They took R jobs!
BuffaloPundit posted an email he got from a downstate toll collector… Hi… I was reading about the removal of the tolls in the blog, and caught the line about “everybody winsâ€. Not everybody. There’s about 150 of us down here maintaining I-84 that have no idea one way or the other about your toll booths….
Been there, said that.
In today’s Business First: The University at Buffalo School of Management and M&T Bank are jointly promoting the program, which is a personal finance curriculum, that already is in use at a number of public and parochial schools in Erie and Niagara counties. … Mandell said nationwide surveys he began in 1997 to determine how…
A reconfiguration for Transfiguration
Fix Buffalo has an interesting idea for a reuse of Transfiguration Church – tearing down the broken parts and leaving the shell surrounding an interesting urban park. I think that’s the best idea I’ve heard for Transfiguration so far. The building is in very rough shape, and frankly it’s just not likely that it’s going…
Brangelina hearts Frank Lloyd Wright
I’ve heard a lot of skepticism that architectural tourism will never make Buffalo successful – that nobody really does that. USA Today has an article about two celebrities who would beg to differ. The actor broke away for personal time on Thursday, when Jolie arranged for the couple to have a private tour of Fallingwater,…