I love the canal project. I see that as more of a benefit to current residents than something to draw in ‘tourists.’
x2 I was telling my gf last night that once this is complete, I will plan a night for us to go. Ice skating, Sabres game, dinner and a hotel room on the waterfront (even if it is at the Marriott). It would make for a local weekend activity.
Dinner -> Sabres Game -> Get shot on Chip strip -> Hotel
Chip strip suckkkks. I never go there anymore. It would be nice to stay away from there.
It would be nice to see them build higher end bars near the new hotel/canal area…
From what I know, it IS hard to get a decent hotel downtown. There is demand for it.
No one wants to stay at the adamsmark, and the hyatt doesnt seem much better.
Look at how many weddings a year Pearl st/templeton do, people have to stay somewhere…
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This.
This.
If they start getting invaded by chip/snooty fox idiots just keep raising the price of drinks and flush out the 40k millionaires.
I’m sure that Mark Croce will have his hand somewhere in this project and build a nice restaurant/bar down there.
I would love to see them work on it too. It still seems like a shit hole area to get people to tho. The Thursday in the Square they had there was awesome and is a great venue but they really need to work to clean up the surrounding area and make it friendly for people to come into the city and access the area unless you park somewhere in the ghetto and take the train with the college kids which ends at midnight so hurts the night out in the city crowd.
They need to get the idiots out of there. No one wants to go downtown and spend money even if they have a nice place when they are dealing with 20 year old due bros set on fighting and 18 year old girls falling all over the place. I wish they had an entertainment district like they do in places like Orlando and stuff. They block it off, you can roam around between bars, and even take drinks into other bars. They also don’t allow 18+ shit which will never fly in Buffalo because that is how those shitty places stay in business.
They seem to have started to redo the night life downtown with this concept. Rendezvous in the Statler is pretty nice. More of a classy crowd that is a more dressed up in actual nice clothes and not slutty Forever 21 outfits. My only issue is they try to charge $20 cover and those tiny ass drinks are $9 each but it does keep the riff raff out.
It would be nice to see things together in walking distance since for 6 months its cold as shit and parking sucks lol
My issue with the city has always been the “lets spread everything out” mentality
Exactly. In the summer, its gorgeous here and fun to walk but people need to remember that businesses need to remain open and drive in people downtown if they want to have that prime real estate by the water. With the sketchy parking rules in the winter, the inability to really get around the city without driving (unless you are going to places on the train line like the main street mall), you are at a loss and really prevents the suburbs people who want to spend the money from even taking a shot at it. Elmwood does a OK job as they get a lot of people into that area on the weekends esp in the summer but overall, people hate the city so they need to make it easier for them to come and spend money.
There actually is. Buffalo(city) hotels have a fairly low vacancy rate.
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Buffalo hotel occupancy above national average
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2012/01/31/buffalo-hotel-occupancy-above-national.html?page=all
Owner of Coles and Blue Monk is opening a restaraunt/bar down where the Naval Museum is…last I heard they were aiming for a late Spring opening date. Also, while not ‘high end’ the Cobblestone area now has 4 restaraunt/bars to choose from. Can’t remember the name of the one I just went to but the food was great, and the atmosphere not douchey in the least. Buffalo doesn’t need ‘high end’…if anything needs more variety.
I’m happy to see this hotel going up, it’s just another step forward for the waterfront…there’s really no negative to this. Hotels, restaraunts, bars, etc…that’s nothing but a catalyst to attract more businesses to develop, as well as Buffalo residents (both city and suburbs) to venture out of the house seeking entertainment.
So cobblestone and all is sweet BUT ITS NEXT TO THE PROJECTS lol
It’s also cut off from everything else by HSBC, Arena, and the train tracks
Sure, today it is. But look at any other city that has gone through this type of revival…new shit comes in, old shit out, places get cleaned up. And how is it cut off from the train? It’s less than a few blocks away.
I was talking how that block is walled in with no room to grow…at the end of cobblestone is train tracks.
I would be all for burning down most of the city and just starting over. The construction projects alone will put a lot of people to work.
Train tracks are good. Perhaps with more destinations more people will be using said train to travel on. North of this area is downtown (room to grow), West is the harbor (currently being redevolped), and East is the area that is currently dirty, yet far enough out of the way that it’s not really a hinderance. Also, just down river is that new park that opened last year…definitely in a shit area, but my point is that the more ‘new’ that gets built, the more the projects will be redeveloped.