Buffalo Re-Defines Extreme Home Makeover
It was a week of endless wonder, amazing teamwork, exhausting labor and a certain amount of public skepticism as ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover Show came to Buffalo.
The Powell Family’s Massachusetts Avenue home was the lucky makeover site and WNY’s own David Home Builders answered the Extreme Home Makeover project call. They, in turn, partnered with AmeriCorps, Buffalo ReUse, PUSH, City of Buffalo Officials and a host of corporate and independent businesses who donated materials, employees, equipment and time to make the dream makeover happen in 7 short days.
Yet was the project good for the WNY Community and Buffalo’s west side neighborhood? Or when the big city-bright lights of Exteme Home Makeover were finally extinguished, did the neighborhood and its well-known problems resurface in the darkness?
Check out this Buffalostyle video that Marc Odien and I put together and decide for yourself….
Thank-you to my daughter, Lisabeth Abt Pieters for her images from the EHM site.
Awesome job Christina!!!
Thanks, Chris…Marc did a great job putting my words and idea with his images……it’s always such fun to take the good news in this community and put it into a video. Glad you enjoyed!
What a nice piece! This is what people need to see and listen to, as opposed to the negativity being spewed on WBEN with Beach and Bauerle. Sometime good came out of this project, no matter what your opinion is regarding whether or not the chosen family was worthy of receiving the Extreme Home Makeover. Buffalo – once again – can be proud of what it has shown not only the nation, but itself. I only hope this outpouring of good will and personal involvement continues, in any way, shape or form, and this “pay it forward” mentality permeates across the Western New York Region. Thanks for this report and spread it so many others get the opportunity to watch it – Very uplifting for the City of Buffalo. Cheers.