It looks like the high-end expansion of the Galleria should be completely done in time for Holiday ‘08…and with nice results.

Not seeing the whole faux-urban experience coming to life before, I see that they are putting retail immediately across from the Cheesecake Factory and such with the retail coming right in front of the new parking garage. Hyde Park Steakhouse is what you see at the picture above.

Above is ‘Bar Louie’-a pretty popular bar chain across the country. Interesting architectural elements include a kinda-garage door for a garage that never existed.

Overall I’m surprised how well the project was designed. The street that goes between the two sides of retail is two-way, one lane, low speed. Good sidewalks too. Wish this was all coming to Canal Side but Buffalo took forever to get their act together and Pyramid knew they needed to bring new life into a mall that was becoming pretty boring.