Dave and Busters type thing with some type of outdoor/water type theme in addition to its indoor type theme.
Just a silly, outlandish, and impossible thought. But the grain elevators are tall, gut the insides, restore the outside, make some crazy climbing walls, and sports shop/park inside.
Going off the post Mike93 posted…What about a large concert hall?
I like it. :tup:
you guys have to drop the ikea hopes and dreams, not only have they been saying for years they will never locate in buffalo, they only build suburban stores, would never happen.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article98928.ece
The world’s largest furniture retailer has no interest in building a store at Canal Side on the downtown waterfront.
A spokesman for IKEA said the company typically focuses its expansion efforts on markets with at least two million residents.
IKEA is “both flattered and very humbled” to have gleaned so much local attention, Public Affairs Director Joseph Roth told The Buffalo News. But he said the Swedish furniture retailer has no plans to build in Western New York.
/IKEA
We need to bring Cabella’s here if they want an “anchor”…but the red tape needs to come down. I love Bacon’s idea for one of the grain elevators…make a couple of the silo’s into rock climbing walls, a coule into rapelling tubes, a couple into those indoor skydiving thingys… would be fucking sweet
While we’re dreaming, can we get our heads out of our asses and stop wasting prime real estate on low income housing??? In case anyone’s just tuning in, the 7 buildings below, right on the water, are low income housing projects managed by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority. :picard: :picard: :picard: They rent for $300-$500 per month. The townhomes on the other side of the inner harbor, arguably in a less desireable location, sell for $300,000-$1,000,000.
FUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFUFU
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WHY THE FUCK WOULD WE PUT A G-SUB HOUSING PROJECT ON THE WATERFRONT??? AHHHHHH!!! SOMEONE GET THE DYNAMITE!
What, just because they’re poor they shouldn’t be entitled to waterfront living? That’s not very Democrat of you, and they city has been Democrat for a LOOOOOOOONG time. 
Yeah, seriously. I guess it’s mean of me to expect someone to produce in order to get nice stuff. I’m sure they’re all nice people. Can we at least point and laugh at them? Maybe we could at least open a “point and laugh at the poor people” observation tower?
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But yeah, those projects have been there since the 50’s. :tdown:
Was waterfront less desirable in the 50’s? Was their a rush for swampy land locked property vs. waterfront? Maybe they decided that since it got so windy and cold by the water they would force the poor people to live there.
I have hated those buildings since I moved to buffalo. I also hate that there has to be a massive fence between the 1,000,000 home and the projects. Move the projects or just blow them up and forget to rebuild them sometime in the middle of winter. The homeless problem will then work itself out, and we will create jobs for some of the poor people cleaning up the other frozen poor people.
Go to Templeton Landing for THE WORST SERVICE EVAR!!! They must hire people from the low rent tower to work there.
No exaggeration, WORST SERVICE EVAR.
I disagree. We had a work function there last week and when I asked for more bread the server was more than willing to hook me up:)
Someone who has lived down there for a long time once told me those towers used to be high-end and discriminated against black people living there. Then there was a change in the law which required them to rent equally and well… the rest is history.
That’s only hearsay though.
They were g-sub from day one.
In 1951, the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority built Dante Place, a seven building complex overlooking the Buffalo River. The funds used to build this complex came from the State of New York, with the stipulation that the buildings be used to provide affordable housing for low income persons. In the 1960’s, a tenant association was formed to manage the properties. A new, nonprofit professional property management group - Erie Regional HDC started providing professional building management in 2007. The buildings are on a very attractive location for residents who want to enjoy our beautiful waterfront at a reasonable rent.
http://www.buffaloplace.com/PopupLeaf/MarineDrive/59
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I never thought through this until now though, and this is a huge problem. You can’t develop an area the way we all want to with a big as project right in the middle of it. They have to go, but that will require someone to commit political suicide, which will never happen around here.
And… We’re fucked.
Yep. I’ve just spent 5 minutes looking it up. I guess Buffalo IS that stupid, lol.
If we all move out of WNY to somewhere WITH a thriving waterfront…problem solved right? That’s what I’m doing.
Mind bottling isn’t it?
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That’s probably your best bet in this lifetime. Though our waterfront is awesome if you have a boat that you can launch from the Tonawandas and then cruise down to for one of those ghetto building photoshoots you guys all love. :roflpicard:
Actually I was just down in Atlanta where they’re relocating all the projects, demolishing them and building luxury homes. I stayed in a high-end community with doctors and dentists, and only a few blocks down the street was where the rapper T.I. grew up in his former project.
We could do it, we’d just need a place to put them…
No kidding. I just figured that would be the kind of thing that couldn’t happen. I guess I shouldn’t be so cynical. Maybe poor people don’t vote?