I really don’t think it’s over yet though.

Bass Pro and the City of Buffalo have been dating for years, they’ve been fighting a lot and now Bass Pro is acting all emotional and trying to see how Buffalo reacts. Is he going to hunt her down and try to bring her back or is he just going to realize that she’s nuts and has been using him all these years…a goldigger of sorts.

Looks like Buffalo is standing strong. He’s going to move on to better ones that treat him the way he deserves to be treated.

Buuuuut he might still take her back. You just never know in this crazy world. Let alone the crazy world of Buffalo Waterfront Development.

Quoting the News’ article, here’s what else is coming to the Inner Harbor by the time October ‘07 rolls around…
” First-person glimpses of the wharf’s heyday through the eyes of an American Indian, arriving passenger and harbor worker, to be located on the bridge over the Commercial Slip.

A transparent panel of “windows” into history, positioned on the railroad-style bridge at the head of the slip, depicting activity at the site at various periods.

A three-story facade with window panels containing historic photos of canal activities and industries, such as chandlers, barrel makers and boat builders.

An interpretive doorway into the unearthed foundations of original, slip-side buildings that will tell the story of the site’s archaeology and the efforts to uncover the past.”

Augh…can’t wait!

Same ol, same ol goin on here. Working on the Naval Park museum and the old 1800’s warehouses…should be ready by the summer
In case you’re having a hard time visualizing what its going to look like when it’s done, here’s the BR post on it with renderings

Westcoastperspective, as always, gets the inside scoops on whats fresh in the development world in Buffalo.As reported in BuffaloRising , Carl Paladino’s “Ellicott Development” want to build 15 new townhomes in the suburban-style private neighborhood AKA “Waterfront Village” with a second condo coming later to complement “Admiral’s Walk”.

A lot of people are offended by this proposed project but it’s really a give and take here. This type of housing project brings in people that the City struggles to bring in-wealthy, older adults, possibly families who want a private, secluded, and upscale residence. Obviously Orchard Park or Clarence are the top choices for something like that but with the existence and design of Waterfront Village, Buffalo gets to compete with that. And that’s good.

Obviously it sucks that a city has its most valuable asset occupied by private residences that are inconvenient to access by foot and even by car, but there is plenty of space to develop public spaces by the Main Street area of the Waterfront. Until the plethora of surface lots over there are built up we can’t really complain about these people taking potential public spaces away from us.

At the end of the day, this project adds tax revenues for the City, adds more people to the Downtown area (people with money too…money is good), and takes up a large parcel of vacant Waterfront property. We’ll all make out alright with that.

NFTA says they reached a handshake agreement with Uniland and it should be official in 30 days. Good. But i like to complain too…I mean come on, I’m from Buffalo!

1. Uniland builds crap. Typical suburban office park crap. I’ve seen their entire portfolio. It sucks. Corporate Parkway next to UB Amherst is okay for what it is (Suburban office park)

2. Our downtown is underdeveloped. Skyline has barely changed since 1970. Lots of surface lots, especially the part of town behind the HSBC Tower. Soooo if we can’t get those lots developed, are we really going to get the Outer Harbor developed?

Regardless, the Outer Harbor is frickin depressing and its good something is gonna happen there. I hope they do it right. But unless the light rail goes out there and we get a pedestrian bridge to there the developments will be few and far between.

I know, I know! It’s hard to believe. Can you just see it now? A REAL waterfront?!!?! Oh man. Now I can’t friggin wait to see a fully developed downtown with a waterfront, HealthNow, BassPro (hey, its better than an abandoned Aud). I’m telling you peoples, Buffalo is gonna look pretty pretty nice in five years.

My flight from Buffalo to Baltimore has us fly over both harbors…

…this is Baltimore in case you are that dillusional.
yeah, we got some work to do.