Do I Dare Write About Parcel 5?

There is an empty site in our downtown. It is called Parcel 5. It has resulted from the slow but steady redevelopment of an area once occupied by an enclosed but long gone shopping mall called Midtown Plaza. New buildings are to the west, and an older and ugly existing building is to the east. …

Buffalo’s Billion

Our Governor here, Andrew Cuomo, has just announced that the State of New York will be forking over $1 billion to the city of  Buffalo, to aid a city in crisis. Yup - a cool billion. As you can imagine, the howls of disbelief and anger in Rochester and Syracuse are deafening. These three cities, …