Commercial retail development of this scale has no right being smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood.
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Jenna Luehrsen
11 years ago
Keep our neighborhoods just the way they are. Large scale retail commercial development belongs downtown.
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Kenneth Rogers
11 years ago
Keep the commercial on Elmwood. Support our local businesses.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
For many years, I worked as a nurse at Millard Fillmore Hospital at Gates Circle. I remember gazing out the windows looking at the beautiful flowers & fountain. If this is a part of the Delaware Park system, let it remain so, & send development elsewhere.
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Kevin Heffernan
11 years ago
If you're going to add more retail to a neighborhood, do it downtown where it's needed.
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Roger Glasgow
11 years ago
the effects of this new development are problematic at best. The composition of this development could have serious consequences for surrounding neighborhoods. each part of this shouldbe approved as an individual project since each project will have varying effects on us as a city.
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Beverly A Thomas
11 years ago
I absolutely concur. We do not need more retail. You will ruin a beautiful, traditionally stable neighborhood. How important is the almighty dollar? Please respect our integrity.
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Maureen
11 years ago
Leave the commercial on elmwood
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Larry Scott
11 years ago
The surrounding community needs to be meaningfully involved in decisions impacting the future of their neighborhood.
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Diana Sachs
11 years ago
I agree with Dan Sack.
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Emory Brown
11 years ago
Save Gates Circles
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Helen Weintraub
11 years ago
Our neighborhood will be lost
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Betsy mccarthy
11 years ago
Too much retail!
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James Smith
11 years ago
The Buffalo Planning Board is on track to grant broad City general approval for almost a million square feet of development at the foot of Lancaster Avenue-probably by October. Well over 100,000 square feet of this new activity would be currently unallowable retail. City approval for this is discretionary. It does not have to be granted.
It has been convenient for the developer to refer to this as the "Gates Circle Project", as if the residences on the Circle were the story. In fact, the great bulk of development, and all of the retail, would take place at the end of Lancaster, on a direct extension of Lancaster into the former hospital property. To set the scale for 100,000+ square feet of new retail, consider that the Lexington Co-op is only 5000 square feet. Changing zoning to allow retail will mean room on the new Lancaster for one of the 30,000 square foot "green" Tops markets, and one of the new urban Targets, and a Rite Aid, and even an LA Fitness, if someone else doesn't want that 50,000 square foot chunk of new space soon to be initially freed up by the Planning Board.
With this new mall at one end, and the Elmwood strip at the other, Lancaster Avenue would be turned into something more like a long mall feeder road. Nearby streets would of course unavoidably play their mall-supporting role as traffic patterns will develop.
Retail traffic is different from hospital traffic. There will be many more vehicles in the neighborhood...more cars, and more big trucks, at all hours, weekday and weekend. And the traffic will be more constant. A traffic signal at Lancaster-Elmwood is a likely early possibility. Vehicles will back up all around, but particularly down Lancaster from Delaware, and from Elmwood on Lancaster, and down Chapin and Lafayette to the Circle, up Linwood who knows how far south, and up and down Delaware both ways. Everywhere neighborhood parking will be more of a challenge for those who now depend on curbside availability.
Wegman's
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Tom Murdock
11 years ago
We welcome development at the end of our block but not blanket C1 zoning.
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Maggie Sacco
11 years ago
Terrible idea. No.
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ellen smith
11 years ago
Absolutely not necessary.
Amen
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Diane Cress
11 years ago
The Elmwood Village and Elmwood's commercial areas need to be supported, not diluted by more commercial square footage in what should be a residential area. A coffee shop or lunch spot, yes, but there are many shops within a short walk from Gates Circle. Let the new residents support those shops on Elmwood and increase the number of available apartments in Montante's development.
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Rev. Phoenix Hawelu-HIlls
11 years ago
I support affordable (in actual reality) housing at this location.
Leave it alone!!!!!!!!! IT'S UNIQUE
Commercial retail development of this scale has no right being smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood.
Keep our neighborhoods just the way they are. Large scale retail commercial development belongs downtown.
Keep the commercial on Elmwood. Support our local businesses.
For many years, I worked as a nurse at Millard Fillmore Hospital at Gates Circle. I remember gazing out the windows looking at the beautiful flowers & fountain. If this is a part of the Delaware Park system, let it remain so, & send development elsewhere.
If you're going to add more retail to a neighborhood, do it downtown where it's needed.
the effects of this new development are problematic at best. The composition of this development could have serious consequences for surrounding neighborhoods. each part of this shouldbe approved as an individual project since each project will have varying effects on us as a city.
I absolutely concur. We do not need more retail. You will ruin a beautiful, traditionally stable neighborhood. How important is the almighty dollar? Please respect our integrity.
Leave the commercial on elmwood
The surrounding community needs to be meaningfully involved in decisions impacting the future of their neighborhood.
I agree with Dan Sack.
Save Gates Circles
Our neighborhood will be lost
Too much retail!
The Buffalo Planning Board is on track to grant broad City general approval for almost a million square feet of development at the foot of Lancaster Avenue-probably by October. Well over 100,000 square feet of this new activity would be currently unallowable retail. City approval for this is discretionary. It does not have to be granted. It has been convenient for the developer to refer to this as the "Gates Circle Project", as if the residences on the Circle were the story. In fact, the great bulk of development, and all of the retail, would take place at the end of Lancaster, on a direct extension of Lancaster into the former hospital property. To set the scale for 100,000+ square feet of new retail, consider that the Lexington Co-op is only 5000 square feet. Changing zoning to allow retail will mean room on the new Lancaster for one of the 30,000 square foot "green" Tops markets, and one of the new urban Targets, and a Rite Aid, and even an LA Fitness, if someone else doesn't want that 50,000 square foot chunk of new space soon to be initially freed up by the Planning Board. With this new mall at one end, and the Elmwood strip at the other, Lancaster Avenue would be turned into something more like a long mall feeder road. Nearby streets would of course unavoidably play their mall-supporting role as traffic patterns will develop. Retail traffic is different from hospital traffic. There will be many more vehicles in the neighborhood...more cars, and more big trucks, at all hours, weekday and weekend. And the traffic will be more constant. A traffic signal at Lancaster-Elmwood is a likely early possibility. Vehicles will back up all around, but particularly down Lancaster from Delaware, and from Elmwood on Lancaster, and down Chapin and Lafayette to the Circle, up Linwood who knows how far south, and up and down Delaware both ways. Everywhere neighborhood parking will be more of a challenge for those who now depend on curbside availability. Wegman's
We welcome development at the end of our block but not blanket C1 zoning.
Terrible idea. No.
Absolutely not necessary. Amen
The Elmwood Village and Elmwood's commercial areas need to be supported, not diluted by more commercial square footage in what should be a residential area. A coffee shop or lunch spot, yes, but there are many shops within a short walk from Gates Circle. Let the new residents support those shops on Elmwood and increase the number of available apartments in Montante's development.
I support affordable (in actual reality) housing at this location.