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What can we do to help Main Street in it's continuing struggle? Though some projects have been created on Main Street in the past couple decades, much of the downtown Main Street core where the Metro Rail is, is quite old and vacant, and quite depressing. Places like the Main Place Mall, AM&A's department store and Warehouse, and many smaller abandoned structures, could use a spruce up. How about some low-cost ideas to help these eye sores become more attractive to retail and commercial tennants and businesses? Any thoughts or ideas?
It's like midtown here in Rochester. (soon to be torn down for Paetec tower) I think people would rather go to the suburbs where you have big box retailers mixed in with more elaborate shopping malls.
The best thing that the city could do is to limit the big box retailers from coming in. They really do kill the mom & pop shops as well as the smaller retailers.
What can we do to help Main Street in it's continuing struggle? Though some projects have been created on Main Street in the past couple decades, much of the downtown Main Street core where the Metro Rail is, is quite old and vacant, and quite depressing. Places like the Main Place Mall, AM&A's department store and Warehouse, and many smaller abandoned structures, could use a spruce up. How about some low-cost ideas to help these eye sores become more attractive to retail and commercial tennants and businesses? Any thoughts or ideas?
These are some very good questions that need to be raised instead of (most people I know who have left the city) sitting back and complaining that nothing ever get done around here.
I miss the days of taking a bus downtown to go shopping. I think the single most thing needed for what's already there is a reason for businesses to reinvest along Main Street. We can't rely 100% on Bass Pro to be saviour of downtown, more is required to have a surviving city. It's desolate, sad but true, then again, many neighborhoods see the same vacancies throughout Buffalo. A promising start has to begin somewhere though.
The best we can do is maybe plan a community meeting with the Mayor, maybe at cityhall or some place centered enough. We (the concerned citizens) can present these types of questions, because in the past 20 years, downtown has been unable to help itself, not just for the Mall, but the entire business strip. A role of leadership, I feel is needed because we can't answer questions on our own.
I have some pictures, thank you Buffalonian4life for letting me share. (Mine also taken on a vacant weekend)
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