5 Comments

1. elias says:

   December 6, 2008 at 9:58 am

   shame on the citizens of buffalo if they re-elect this current administration. the citizens have accepted loss of industry, loss of our best and brightest, higher taxes (like the garbage fee to finance the cronies at city hall), rising poverty, declining neighborhoods, poor schools (see graduation statistics), indecision on development, and now our elected leaders want us to believe crap like this is good for the future of our city. SHAME ON THE CITIZENS IF WE RE-ELECT THIS CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.
2. STEEL says:

   December 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm

   That selected project makes that DOS window look good
3. mike hudson says:

   December 6, 2008 at 6:53 pm

   pitts is also involved in the scam known as the hope 6 housing project here in niagara falls. for those of you not aware, they are building 282 units of low-income housing — at a cost of $500,000 per — atop a former hazardous waste dump in the city’s north end. the project is being subsidized by the bush administration and, increasingly, the city of niagara falls.

   the occupancy rate in the already plentiful rental market here in the falls hovers around 60 percent, btw, and the nicest house in the city wouldn’t sell for a half a million dollars. pitts must be some kind of genius because he’s convinced a lot of politicians that this project is needed here.

   it’s not, but five years’ worth of writing about what a major fraud it is has done no good at all.
4. mike says:

   December 7, 2008 at 12:25 am

   but five years’ worth of writing about what a major fraud it is has done no good at all. boo hoo
5. Dan says:

   December 7, 2008 at 1:55 am

   Looking online, most Wingate hotels of this style are located convenient to Interstate highway exits in areas frequented by business travelers; typically near airports and concentrations of suburban office parks. In the Buffalo area, a Wingate would be appropriately located on Genesee Street across from the airport or in Amherst’s Golden Triangle area.

   There’s only two downtown Wingates I found. In Regina, Saskatchewan, there’s a six-story Wingate on the edge of that city’s downtown. Same architectural trade dress as the rest, but the parking for that location is actually in a ramp. The Wingate planned for suburban Buffalo has surface parking. The building housing the Wingate in midtown Manhattan (http://www.wingatehotelnyc.com/) has no corporate trade dress; it fits in among the street wall.