By TW:
I lived in Allentown and the Elmwood village for a decade before buying a house in the North Park area of North Buffalo this past summer. I love the EV\Allentown and part of what makes them great is not just the walkability of the neighborhoods, but the community movement that is continually working to make it MORE walkable.
Mr. Dash of course has every right to move his business wherever he wants (the market is moving to a larger location on Kenmore Avenue), but we have to do something to fight to make the Hertel location another food market. While something else MIGHT open in the old location, I highly suspect that it will simply sit empty for years causing more blight in the greater North Buffalo area. [Buffalo should] do a ‘call-to-arms’ to try to put pressure on Dash’s to either keep a store on Hertel or to allow another food store to come into the old location (something that he says he is not willing to do). We need to continue to move North Buffalo forward and this would be a giant step backwards.
See more about the move on NorthBuffalo.com.