Maybe it’s the weather but Buffalo has had some awesome news latley

1. Statler deal is a wrap. And a delicious wrap at that
2. City is gonna force AM&A’s Taylor to cough up some monies before he flees for France.
3. Over 1,000 jobs added? Yeah its not much but hey-at least we’re not Rochester.
4. New flights from Delta out of BNIA
5. Barry Snyder and Phil Pantano admitted the casino will still look nice even without Fulton Street.
6. Article in the Wall Street Journal about Buffalo Old Home Week
7. Two new tennants for the 1 story building on 700 main block
8. HSBC affirms long term committment to Buffalo despite corporate changes
9. Brown hints at interest in downtown properties from Baltimore, Chicago, Cali, and NYC investors

all this makes for one happy Buffalonian!

Can’t wait till 2007? Here’s a slideshow of the 3-D look of cars on Main Street courtesy of Gabe on BR.

Augh. Looks like BuffaloRising is finally gonna put a stopto the psycho cyber-losers who spend their lives trashing everyone in the comments section

But I am a strong man, I will find something else to entertain me…hopefully

RIP “L” and all the others.

Today’s BuffaloNews reports on the extensive and extremely impressive list of new stores and shops coming to the Galleria Mall in a urban streetscape setting. On the list is a lot of trendy stores that are seen in upscale areas, cities included.
Well not in Buffalo though. Cheektowaga continues to become a mini-city while the actual city that makes Cheektowaga what it is…struggles…mightily.

It’s great to have a lot of these new stores in the Buffalo area, I know I’ll be frequenting Urban Outfitters especially but it’s sad to see that this project pretty much kills any non-heavily subsidized retail project come downtown.

Soooo basically we need the casino and BassPro to happen. Its downtown’s only shot at attracting future retailers.

PS Urban Outfitters would have been perfect on Elmwood, even in the University Heights…I wonder if these stores have ever even seen the city, maybe they would have given it the chance.

Here’s BuffaloGeek’s two cents

The designs for the new Park Lane 20 story condo hasn’t even been released and there is already huge opposition.

Will someone tell these people they are living in a fuckin city? It’s quite simple, really. Successful cities in the civilized world build tall buildings…sometimes they’re pretty too!

You can call them NIMBY’s or BANNANA’s all you want, I’m calling them the Development Taliban.

No, its not catchy but it’s an appropriate name.

Um yeah ignore this what used to be on this post. I’m gonna start off solo on this project and later on i’ll be goin public with it.

Since before I was born, my parents have owned a pretty serious collection of Buffalo China. And only recently was I informed that my mom collected it by stealing it from the UB dining halls back in 1979.
Is it wrong that I just laugh whenever I remember why we have this set?

On Buffalorising today there is a naming contest for the guy on the logo of “Old Home Week” and one commenter proposed this…

“Another very Buffalonian name: Rocco. In any other city, a Rocco would get laughed at. In Buffalo, meanwhile, you could slap it on your business card and most wouldn’t give it a second thought.”

Kinda like how in Buffalo, wearing a brown suit is actually acceptable and even kinda stylish *shudder*

Oh and don’t forget “Zubaz” pants too.

And according to the BuffaloNews we can add having a policeman get arrested four times before losing his job.

…anyone else have some “only in buffalo” observations?

Apparently we’re getting eight huge windmills on the former Bethlehem Steel sight that will be about the same height as City Hall. Interesting.
Mayor Brown allegedly confirmed this on the radio but the info is nowhere to be found. Anyonw know the deally-o?

*EDIT: yes, it has been confirmed, see the 1st comment inside for an explanation

JP Dumont’s 1year, 2.9 mil contract awarded through arbitration was rejected by the Sabres. Chances are he’ll be gobbled up immediatley through free agency with his solid career numbers in the “dead puck” era.

Sucks to be in a small market, eh?