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Yet, what does this have to do with the housing growth in the Lancaster area?
It has everything to do with Lancaster's very small housing growth. as a whole WNY is bleeding population loss's every single year, Now the City of Buffalo's crime filled ghetto's are now spreading into the 1st ring suburbs such Cheektowaga, pushing people out to the outer ring suburbs that can afford it.
It has everything to do with Lancaster's very small housing growth. as a whole WNY is bleeding population loss's every single year, Now the City of Buffalo's crime filled ghetto's are now spreading into the 1st ring suburbs such Cheektowaga, pushing people out to the outer ring suburbs that can afford it.
Not necessarily and it still appears that it is a substantial housing development for the town.
It has everything to do with Lancaster's very small housing growth. as a whole WNY is bleeding population loss's every single year, Now the City of Buffalo's crime filled ghetto's are now spreading into the 1st ring suburbs such Cheektowaga, pushing people out to the outer ring suburbs that can afford it.
No. Lancaster is overall much nicer than Cheektowaga, not that Cheektowaga is a horrible place to live. Lancaster has been extensively developed since 1990, whereas Cheektowaga was almost exclusively developed before 1980.
Oh please with the crime pushing people away. No one is leaving 900 to 1600 sq ft houses and moving into 2,500 to 3,500 sq ft houses because of neighorhood crime. Cheektowaga is an old established community, the older sections of the town has bad housing stock and high poverty from renters. At some points you can't tell what is Buffalo housing stock vs Cheektowaga because it's so old and broken down. The "new" housing stock from the 80's to 90's is boring and geared more towards blue collar workers who spend more on 6 packs of beer yearly than home upgrades. Lancaster taxes are lower and attract builders of larger homes for that reason. Sure there are some new generation white flighters who run from Cheetowaga to Lancaster's equally small and older housing but the new builds have nothing to do with that.
Lancaster taxes cheaper ? The Property Taxes on 2,500 sqft home in Lancaster are $10,000 to $12,000+ a year and go up every year another $400 or $500 a year, and yet your paying all that and you still have a volunteer FD with unmanned fire stations providing 1960's EMS level Boy Scout basic first aid. When the national standard's are Advanced Life Support and Paramedic Level which is just about everywhere else but WNY, What you are paying for in Lancaster are 20 brand new take home Fire chiefs Tahoe's that get most miles put on them on personal use, 20 Fire Chief SUV's for a population of 40,000 ? Governmemt workers 6 figure salary's, 6 figure pension's, uncontroled Pension spiking, 6 figure cash out bonus of unused sick time & vacation time in a whole 30 year career at retirement, yearly salary raises & yearly longevity bonus.
"Uniland Development Co., after 16 years of trying unsuccessfully to attract commercial tenants to the Eastport Commerce Center"
This doesn't seem to work out mathematically or logically. If, after 16 years, you can't attract jobs to the area, how are these new homes going to be paid for? Sure there will be some very short term jobs to build the houses, but then what?
End of 2016 Update: All of the Buffalo MSA had 931 single family homes built in 2016. There were 1,005 units built in multi-unit structures. The number of single family homes is down slightly from last year, but the number of multi-unit structures has drastically increased.
Lancaster is just exploiting white flight from Cheektowaga.
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