What community does she refer to? Was there a ballot initiative? Who was asked ? In fact, mis-representations, and half-truths indicate contempt for the public at large, as if the rest of us are too stupid to know any better.

So 15,000 signed a petition . That means 275,000 didn’t. Weren’t asked? or refused?

http://fixbuffalo.blogspot.com/2007/05/role-reversal.html

Guess you missed the date - April 1st - for the Walmart piece!

The water front is big. NO one, that I know, is saying that Bass Pro isn’t welcome. The question is why do Bob & Mindy Rich and their Florida neighbor Johnny Morris get to dictate where Bass Pro gets built and in so doing change the terms of the earlier agreement.

Role Reversal… for additional images and the Flynn Battaglia sketch of the terminus area…

Oh well…guess if you live in suburbia (or Florida) you have one notion of historical interpretation. Trying to suggest that it’s the correct one is a different topic.

Argue the other points, but thanks to a catchy folk song, Buffalo and the Erie Canal are in fact known the world over.

While David Torke takes pot shots at the preservation crowd for ignoring the East Side (rightly IMO), I’ve never read any comments from Tim Tielman or other preservationists expressing a preference for IKEA or Crate & Barrel over Bass Pro. Dan clouds the issue by creating an inconsistency where none exists. BP had a great post on why IKEA is not appropriate for this location.

I’m all for building up this area. The Naval and Military Park is sufficent green space. I’d like there to be multiple unique stores and restaurant/bars so that this doesn’t become a single destination stop. Reality dictates that there will need to be public parking nearby. Quincy Market in Boston has a parking garage adjacent to the site and many garages within a block or two that serve downtown workers and tourists alike. Make that canal are accessible to a waterfront park on the outer harbor where the Coast Guard station is and, hopefully, will be relocated or some other nearby greenspace. I don’t feel that we need another pocket park that isn’t maintained after it is built (e.g., lights in Cathedral Park that are supposed to illuminate the trees don’t work and the park between North and South Division near ECC not only has a water fountain that doesn’t work, but is overgrown and acts as a summer camp for the homeless).