Shopping center shock-horror

The Buffalo Gun Club on Maple in Amherst is sold to Benderson, which wants to put up a “lifestyle center”, which is shorthand for a mall that looks like an old-fashioned main street.

There’s one called Legacy Village in Cleveland. Check it out.

The commenters at BR (which is breaking its own rule by highlighting an Amherst development) are, predictably, in fierce disagreement with the idea of a lifestyle center, and westcoastperspective himself calls it a “fancy strip mall”.

Yes, but this is Western New York. We’re used to just plain old strip malls. We’re not talking Gates Circle, here. We’re talking UB North. It’s already overrun with strip malls.

Put something up in Amherst that mimicks urban design, and it’s a step in the right direction.

One of the first things that creeped me out when I moved here was hearing the ignorant prattling of people on Sandy Beach spewing hatred at the City. I don’t like it when City folk do the same at the suburbs, either. We’re in this together, folks.