fix buffalo today

a view from recently demolished 669 Genesee Street

Deconstructing Buffalo...

4 Comments Published by fix buffalo on 3/31/2007 at 10:31 PM.


Caught up with Michael Gainer and the crew from Buffalo ReUse this morning at the Central Terminal. During the press conference we learned that Buffalo ReUse scored a major $187,000 grant and is setting up shop underneath the Central Terminal.
Picture 426
This is a major step forward for Buffalo. Reusing old building materials is not new. Intuitively it makes very good sense. First started thinking about this with Michele Johnson a few years ago. What is new and very exciting is Michael is doing it. He's catching us up with other parts of the country where this sort of activity is common place. While visiting friends in Vermont recently, I had an opportunity to check out ReNew in Brattleboro.
Picture 428
Additional morning pix...
Picture 423 Picture 424 Picture 415 Picture 410
Here's the gang, last October at 26 Lombard Street. Follow that link for additional resources about deconstructing Buffalo.
__________________________________________________________________________
Artspace • BAVPA • Tour d'Neglect - 2007 • Woodlawn Row Houses • faq • my flickr

4 Responses to “Deconstructing Buffalo...”

  1. # Anonymous Michele J 4:17 AM, April 01, 2007

    Thank you for your support, The Hat brought us good luck!  

  2. # Blogger Craig C Clarke 5:30 AM, April 01, 2007

    They've been doing this in the SF Bay area for decades.

    In some ways it would be nice if there were fewer "parts" of old Buffalo buildings to reuse.  

  3. # Anonymous Anonymous 8:53 AM, April 01, 2007

    The one with hardhat and the red n white drink mug looks very tastey. Where can i get him?  

  4. # Blogger whitney arlene 10:08 AM, April 02, 2007

    Yay! These are great pictures of the event, wish I could've been there!  

Post a Comment

Web This Blog
fixBuffalo delivered daily. Just enter your e-mail address in the space below.



rss-icon

fixBuffalo::comment stream

Subscribe with Bloglines

http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

http://queencityfarm.org/

http://buffaloreuse.org/

http://buffalofirst.org/

http://pushbuffalo.org/default.htm

http://www.nationaltrust.org/

Join host Carol Coletta for a look at the trends and ideas shaping our cities. Only on public radio.

Save This Page

Buffalo Nickel

http://www.chicagocrime.org/

Recent Posts

Archives

Top Stories

Orphaned in Buffalo
annals of neglect
artspace
14209 Re-Location
bavpa
jn adam/trathen/franzcyk
neighborhood assets
vacant houses/broken promises
urbex
writing the city...

Site Seeing




© 2008 fix buffalo today | I'm running the K2 template. | This site is best viewed using Firefox.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask
of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
- Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) from The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961.

The views expressed here are mine and shouldn't be confused with the mission and statements made by others.

Get Firefox! Use OpenOffice.org http://www.zohowriter.com/login.sas
GeoURL