Proposed development on Maple UPDATE: 6/3 Approved by town board

[Xander]

@JezikaTee1983

I think this will be a great boost for that area. It’s within walking or biking distance for UB students, which will reduce the amount of cars on maple. There are also all those hotels over there, with nothing within walking distance.

i heard a resident on the news say that this area was already developed enough and that’s why they were against it. nimby’s or not-in-my-backyarder’s, as they’re called, are the kind of people that have kept this city down for so long. they’d rather have a lead-polluted brown-field than some extra traffic because of shops and restaurants that are actually bringing people into the area. makes no sense to me.

hopefully they find good tenants to fill these storefronts, that’s my only concern. benderson builds all these nice plazas, but then they sit vacant for years.

Amherst has enough traffic and shops/stores, it’s not like it NEEDS it. Also traffic is already one of the worst areas in Buffalo to try to “drive through” in the evening rush hour. So the “against” people do have a good point. Their real concern I think is the property Value when the once quiet street turns into the new road to “avoid traffic”.

I could care less either way, but like you and others have said, will they get filled?

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