Gaps in the skyline: Voice your opinion, Buffalo

[Checkered24]

Originally Posted by ThaShizit

They need ta build a huge statue of a buffalo in the the middle of the city!!! Then it'll be perfect!!

Now that would be funny!

[ocean2026]

Many of you are clueless. The gaps are not a problem nor are the old buildings -that's what gives Buffalo its charm. If you mixed it with more modern junk what would you have to offer people?

Answer - another town with high taxes, a poor economy,and lots of crime. With that you're doomed much like Detroit, just not as quickly.

Buffalo's best chance- Marketing it as a museum to see what the US looked like 50 years ago. Babyboomers really love this and that's why I visit Buffalo. If you somehow made the tax structure competitive with the rest of the country - Buffalo would really have a chance to prosper. For me that would be the difference between just visiting .. and buying.

[ThaShizit]

Originally Posted by Buffalonian4life

How big? lol

bigger than any other building!!!
wow can u believe the lowly bills got t.o.????

[Buffalonian4life]

Originally Posted by ThaShizit

bigger than any other building!!!
wow can u believe the lowly bills got t.o.????

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[Buffalonian4life]

Centered is the Buffalo Sky Needle. A rotating observation deck where the public is invited to look out from the light up Glass Buffalo and see all around. Included in the picture drawing rendering are some more modern structures seen in 2020... There's even snow!

[truemuck]

Originally Posted by Buffalonian4life

I just hope that once we restore our old, historic buildings in downtown Buffalo, we get some new buildings built on the empty parking lots where beautiful structures once stood. This city is leaning toward a "mixed use" factor, that nearly every new build from now on will mostly incorporate retail and office space, hotel (BADLY NEEDED here in Buffalo), residential (critical), and more. These factors that are fulfilled in the various new builds that could be coming our way would add density, people, businesses and retail, and most of all the need for new downtown hotel and residential uses. If you build it they will come... Hmm, just maybe people might catch on that Buffalo is looking to the future and is no longer stagnant. Hello new business!

My feeling exactly. I'd also like to see them rebuild this, (for those that don't know, its the old Larkin Company Building):



A Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece that should've never been demolished.

[Buffalonian4life]

Originally Posted by truemuck

My feeling exactly. I'd also like to see them rebuild this, (for those that don't know, its the old Larkin Company Building):



A Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece that should've never been demolished.

You're right about Wright's awesome masterpiece that was the Old Larking Building, what an incredible structure - if it still stood today, it would be considered one of America's treasured architectural gems. How shameful they demolished this historic building, and I do indeed hope they at least rebuild it, as I'm sure many of us think that is best.

Great input and thoughts.

[goldinbuffalo]

There are some great photos of the Old Buffalo skyline available at a poster shop on Elmwood Ave in buffalo. These may help you get a feel for what a great city Buffalo once was.

[Buffalonian4life]

Originally Posted by goldinbuffalo

There are some great photos of the Old Buffalo skyline available at a poster shop on Elmwood Ave in buffalo. These may help you get a feel for what a great city Buffalo once was.

There are some books out there depicting Buffalo's skyline and waterfront from the early 1800's to 1950's. Truly stunning - seeing all of the many ships, barges, and multiple cruiseliners and mega-ships with the very dense, growing skyline in the background is an absolute mind-blowing sight! People seeing the newly built - Buffalo City Hall on their way into Buffalo was like seeing the Empire state building in NYC, but on a slightly lower level of course. What an awesome (3rd densest at one point) city in America skyline we had, today it is reasonable, missing quite a few historic structures, but soon things will change and we will have one good lookin skyline...

[Buffalonian4life]

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