Elena Cala Buscarino
Last month we ran a post on buffalorising.com, Looking for City Dwellers (at Heart), and Kyle LoConti was one of many people who answered the call. As it turns out, her personal profile fits exactly the type of person real estate agents and developers have been telling us will move into Downtown Buffalo.
LoConti is a unique person whose most typical trait is that of a being an empty nester, single, professional who is looking for a place in the City of Buffalo to call her own. "My three to five-year plan is to get a place downtown at the same time I retire from the college," LoConti said.
The Department of Theatre Arts Chair at Niagara County Community College, LoConti doesn't want another house due to the constant upkeep it would require, and she doesn't want an apartment because she doesn't want to incur capital gains taxes from the eventual sale of her home in Tonawanda, NY. Furthermore, she wants to live in downtown Buffalo.
"Most of my social life is downtown," LoConti said. …
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Doug Sitler
With a few strokes of a paint roller pushed by Mayor Byron Brown and other community leaders, the Blue Buffaloes that mark the Walk Buffalo tours are reappearing at 28 locations in downtown Buffalo.
At a press conference in front of the Market Arcade Building Tuesday afternoon, celebrating National Tourism Week, Mayor Brown, Rich Geiger, Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau; Grant Loomis, Office of the County Executive, and Michael Schmand, Buffalo Place, painted the first of many buffaloes that will once again be visible on the sidewalks as part of Walk Buffalo – a self-guided walking tour of downtown Buffalo.
Walk Buffalo is a free, 2.5 mile, self-guided walking tour that serves as a wonderful way to learn about the rich history and architecture that downtown Buffalo has to offer. The key to participating in Walk Buffalo is obtaining the free Walk …
Eli George
B. West Studio at 148 Elmwood Avenue has presented many exhibits to raise funds for different programs like the Crisis Advocate Program (Oct. 2006), the Crisis Services Rape Program (Apr. 2007), and the Crisis Services Homeless Outreach (Oct. 2007). Most recently in March of 2008, Autistic Services, Inc. rented out the gallery to put on an exhibit created by their students in their arts program. Now, with the Allentown Arts Festival on the horizon, the gallery is opening its doors to allow area artists to use the gallery space during the festival.
Laurie Tanner, director of the B. West Studio, says, “We’re trying to keep it kind of organized on a submission basis. We’re trying to attract more diverse artists. It’s kind of an alternative. It’s so close to the festival.”
Artists would pay a $25 fee to display their artwork in the space. The gallery will collect no com…
queenseyes
Coming at you from Labatt US headquarters, Buffalo Place has just announced the line-up for the 2008 Thursday at the Square (presented by M&T Bank). It was a no-brainer to visit the Labatt Blue base in order to listen to the announcement. There was one zinger that took a few people by surprise - on August 15th-16th Buffalo Place will 'Rock the Harbor' once again. On that Friday Great Big Sea will take the stage followed by The Robert Cray Band and Keb' Mo' on Saturday. This will be an exciting weekend of live music at the Erie Canal Harbor ($10-$15 tickets available soon at TicketMaster).
Starting in May and lasting to September, Thursday at the Square has become quite the summer staple in Downtown Buffalo. It's pretty cool that Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor is back again. Any time we can head down to the water to check out some live music action we'll happily do it. It is perf…
queenseyes
This morning, former BRO contributor Giovanni Centurione sent me an email asking if I would let readers know that there is a chance to nominate Buffalo as the Best Place to Relocate/Live for 2009. There is a website where people submit their choices for the category of "Relocate America's Top 100 Cities". For eleven years the top 100 cities have been listed according to the number of submissions as well as editorial input. Gio has requested that BRO readers visit the site and submit their favorite relocation city while listing the reasons that people should move there.
Hey, you never know what a site listing can do for a city (remember top art destination?) Gio currently live in NYC and has decided that he would like to come back to Buffalo. During his decision…
Sarah Rose Stone
This past Saturday was opening day for the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers Market. Every year I head off to market with my reusable shopping bags, fully prepared to do my part by purchasing lots of yummy produce. Week after week last year, I would find myself refilling a veggie drawer that was already half full. I began with the intention of using all of my produce over the course of the week, but I found that on some days I was too busy to cook the meal I had purchased them for. Some weeks I even had to throw some of my rotten produce out. I always felt guilty. but, this year, I have a plan.
Here’s where Just Pizza comes into play. Sunday night has become “clean out night” in our house. Whatever is left in the veggie drawer from the previous week has to go, and I’ve decided that homemade…
Susan Marie
The Buffalo Select Chorus will perform their 3rd Annual Concert in Asbury Hall at Babeville. The recital and reception is free and open to all who would like to view the evening's mixed musical repertoire and any students wishing to participate in the upcoming 2008-2009 Buffalo Select Chorus.
Sponsored by the Righteous Babe Foundation, it is the only chorus made up of Buffalo high school students, with nine different schools represented. The Buffalo Select Chorus is a talented, dynamic group that has persevered despite challenges for funding in the arts in the Buffalo schools.
In the spring of 2005, Linda Appleby (creative director and vocal instructor), along with Susan Mann Dolce (executive director) and other interested community members and parents set out to create a citywide Buffalo Public High School Chorus to begin that fall. The group would have weekly practices, p…
thursday may 15th 2008
A Look At Evans National Bank
queenseyes
If you've been wondering what the new Evans National bank, located at the corner of Elmwood and Delevan, is going to look like... here it is. The bank posted a banner in front of the former Elmwood Taco and Sub building depicting what is expected to come. The image shown here is the viewpoint from Delevan if you were standing at the jacked-up Sunoco station. As a side note, I once heard that Greater Buffalo Savings Bank had taken a look at the Sunoco station for a bank location. Supposedly, the owner of the property wanted more money than GBSB was willing to shell out... and that is unfortunate. Fixing up that Sunoco corner could have been a real win for Elmwood.
It is ironic that a couple years later Evans National Bank opted to move onto that corner. It is a hi-profile corner that is sure to get attention. Of course there is plenty of parking in the back of the building and I …
Eli George
Ever since 2007, new requirements on school bus manufacturing make it mandatory to have a crankcase filter as well as an upgraded catalytic converter. Unfortunately, most buses in service need to be retrofitted to have these upgrades. Enter Tom Hersey, Coordinator-Pollution Prevention Program.
Hersey, along with Alan J. Steinberg, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator, Chris Collins, Erie County Executive, and school district leaders were all on hand at the Rath Building, 95 Franklin Street, to announce the receipt of another grant from the EPA. A retrofitted school bus was even on site for visuals.
Hersey has already been working on retrofitting old buses and yesterday’s announcement marked the second grant from the EPA’s Clean School Bus Initiative. The first grant saw school buses from Kenton, Iroqu…
Eli George
For ten years, Professor Robert L. Wood at Buffalo State College has run a ceramics programs dubbed the “Western New York Clay Olympics”. This fun event takes place at the college’s Upton Hall 128, tomorrow, May 16, and is open for the public to come and watch.
Wood says, “In order to keep it to a scale in a manageable size, we decided to invite alumni who are teachers.” Those alumni are Matt Sagurney of Kenmore East, Ann Perry-Smith of Lancaster, Brett Coppins of Lewiston-Porter, and Scott Losi of Pioneer. These four teachers and high schools have participated in this event during its ten-year run, typically involving around 35 students.
“They’re just sort of fun events that build camaraderie among the students participating. It’s a way for these kids to share their love and enthusiasm for the medium,” says Wood.
The students compete in teams, using clay and…
