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Substantial transformations are taking place in the once forgotten industrial landscape of what is now commonly referred to as the Larkin District. Anchored by Larkin at Exchange, this old neighborhood is seeing new life as a successful urban district home to some of... Read more...

This is a guest post by Eric Schmitz, who typically blogs about Buffalo sports at 3rdmanin.wordpress.com Besides his local sports blogging he also maintains a similar level of enthusiasm, criticism and loyalty to another hometown team, The Goo Goo Dolls. He received an... Read more...

Hundreds of times a year, I would look outside a NFTA metro car by 620 Main Street and see the three last names etched in stone: “LEVY KING & WHITE” with two flower-like objects enclosed in circles with the letters “LK&W” artfully presented... Read more...

Tonight (or as I subconsciously typed at first, TOnight…), the Bills will take the field as the home team at Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto for a preseason game versus the AFC Champion, Indianapolis Colts. If you’re a masochist Bills fan, you’ll watch... Read more...

Might we witness the newest wave of white flight? Middle to above average income families, mostly white, left the urban areas of America in droves from the 1940’s onward and many cities have never fully recovered. Sure, downtowns across the countries are reinventing... Read more...

I looked at today’s Buffalo News and instantly rolled my eyes. Although that happens a lot when I visit said website, today’s headline was just rediculous. “IKEA on list of potential tenants” As a public service to Buffalo, let me copy and paste... Read more...

From a list of anonymous to unknown to unproven developers, the light at the end of Statler’s tunnel has emerged. Famous for his redevelopments of Rust Belt relics, John Ferchill will apparently team up with My Dynasty LLC to put in a bid... Read more...

Larry Quinn provided some quotes for WBFO’s story about HSBC’s future in Buffalo. That story can be listened to here. He suggests that the bank is looking for a vibrant community to be located in, and suggested that Canal Side would be something... Read more...

To kick off the weekend on an optimistic note of sorts, take a couple minutes to read a recent article about the project that started the dramatic evolution of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Harborplace, the indoor market/mall that kick-started the transformation of Baltimore from... Read more...

As maddening as yesterday’s Common Council session was, today’s closed-door meeting and then special hearing between the Mayor and Council Representatives was equally reassuring. We now know that the 1.9 acre Webster Block will be sold from the City to the ECHDC for... Read more...

A uniquely Buffalo press conference took place this afternoon as three unlikely allies gathered together to scold and lecture individuals and groups perceived to be the obstacle towards directly impacting 4,000 + jobs in Downtown Buffalo. Byron Brown, Carl Paladino, and Larry Quinn... Read more...

As the glass panels get put up on the facade of the new Federal Courthouse at Niagara Square, enthusiasts who have drooled over the renderings of the project since the early 2000′s might feel as if they’ve been played. KPF released renderings that... Read more...

According to Architectural Record’s annual ranking of the top 250 firms, Grand Island-based Cannon Design is ranked as having the 10th highest architecture revenue of any American firm with $156 mil in the last fiscal year. $123 mil came from domestic projects. Of... Read more...