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I remember eons ago that they opened Taylor's in the old AM&A's building. High-priced clothes, dress code (to keep the kids out) and a doorman !
Apparently that didn't last long (I remember it closing barely after being open for a few months, if that!).
When I left the area I remember hearing about Bass Pro developing, and with that and the aforementioned Taylor's, I wonder if Buffalo knows its own demographic. Doubt it.
Taylors was a poor idea. The location was bad. People who would frequent it don't live downtown. What you fail to realize is that other stores of high quality were here until just a short time ago -- to the 1990s, there were Jenss, LLBerger, & many small stores.... back in the 1970s, Sample (on Hertel) was reasonably upscale and in the 1950s, my husband said Flint & Kent was top notch. Those all did your tailoring free, the salepeople catered to you... what a pleasure. If you walked in Jenss in jeans, you got poor service -- if you went in nice khakis or a skirt, the clerks were all over you.[ I still have clothers from LLBerger I got in the late part of the 1980s -- classics!!]
Had they put Taylors in a pricey area, I think it might have worked. I felt the prices were exorbitant, but given the choice of that or going to NYC or Toronto to shop? The idea made sense. The location and overly high prices didn't...
I was recently in Buffalo and was shocked at how empty the dowtown was. What incentives is the city offering to get businesses back in the downtown area?
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I was recently in Buffalo and was shocked at how empty the dowtown was. What incentives is the city offering to get businesses back in the downtown area?
I don't know, isn't Buffalo nortorious for not being business friendly? To me, the fall of downtown happened right when they put in that stupid lightrail and subway to nowhere. So many Main Street businesses had to close down. It was very sad to watch it all go down....
To me, the fall of downtown happened right when they put in that stupid lightrail and subway to nowhere.
It's the equivalent of the 8-Main bus---redundant and useless.
Another place I remember from downtown was Woolworth's---plenty of odds and ends and yarn and things. I think that was changed to Rainbow (cheap clothes for the junior set) before I moved to DC.
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