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Queen City Velodrome

In recent weeks there have been more than a handful of discussions regarding what to do with upwards of 20,0000 square feet of available warehouse space in Black Rock. The ... Continue Reading

Biography: BS in Urban and Regional Planning and Anylsis from BSC.
Last Login: on 5/9/08
User Rating: 4.55 (9 votes)

Interests:: Architecture, Movies, Eating, Drinking, and other merryments, bad speling
Favorite Movies:: The American President
Favorite Music:: EVERYTHING to include: Tori Amos,Sufjan Stevens, Dreaming Ferns, and Rebekah Jordan, Ben Folds, Depeche Mode, THE EELS, Supergrass, Madame Butterfly (its Opera, you just dont understand), The 5678's, Cardigans, Dixie Chicks, The Hombres, Jeff Buckley, Jewel (before the sellout), Nelly Furtado (after the sellout), Johhny Horton, Loretta Lynn, yeah just about anything really.
Favorite Books:: Catcher in the Rye, Farenheit 451,1984, The Quiet American, Animal Farm, It, The Stranger, Anything by Albert Camus, Sidhartha, A Potrait of the Artist as A Young Man, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch 22, Atlas Shrugged, Lord of The Flies, I live by: Winning Back America; Howard Dean, Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living, Death and Life of Great American Cities; Jane Jacobs

Call for Artists for New Amherst Street Art and Craft Fair

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May 29th, 15:43

I miss Frenchy's impromptu art gallery and the parade of characters. And you can never have enough street festivals espically in such a diverse and interesting neighborhood as Amherst St. I wish I could move you all here and help to revitalize th…

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Will County Executive Collins honor his promise?

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May 8th, 09:37

We canly only hope

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It's Time For Action... Not Apathy.

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Feb 21st, 22:50

Having been directly involved in that neighborhood for many years, the problem isn't a simple solution. Old buildings that need lots of work + low property values + high concentration of poverty + Mediocre business enviroment= urban diaster. The …

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From Old Appliances To Modern Design...

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Nov 6th 2007, 21:05

Well it is sad to see my favourite impromptu art gallery close, but it is very exciting to see a new business opening up! Kudos to the Grant-Amherst Business Association and Frenchy for her insightfulness.

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sbrof

I agree 100% that there needs to be both a regional approach to this problem and that we should be investing more into rennovation than both new construction and demolition. At the same how do we know that t...
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gaustad

Having worked in Real Estate and mortgages for the last several years, I can unequivocally tell you that the entire market in Erie County needs to correct by at least 20-30% Specifically, purchasing a sin...
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chrishawley

It might look even better with some barbed wire and look-out towers along Delaware Avenue facade.
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chrishawley

The renderings seem to show the original storefront windows on the Werner photographic building would be removed and replaced. The charm and historicity of the building would be far, far better expressed if ...
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chrishawley

The project timeline seems to express that all the original cobblestone streets will be reconstructed at historic grade "by May 2008." So where are they?
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