The Buffalo News: Opinion: A billion dollars later, Buffalo’s
shedding its long history of botching development
Published:
Monday, February 9, 2015 - 16:37
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The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is just one of the areas in
Buffalo that is booming. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News file
photo)[/caption]
Here is, perhaps, the most extraordinary thing about the Buffalo Billion and other economic development efforts that are remaking this city, something that says more about the change in Buffalo than any other single factor: Things are actually happening.
It’s not all just talk. No longer is Buffalo the world’s No. 1 producer of artists’ renderings – plans that go nowhere but to a shelf, there to gather dust.
That had been the Buffalo way for decades. Where is the Adelphia skyscraper, the new Peace Bridge, the Bass Pro store on the waterfront? Mirages, they were – figments of the imagination.
But that was then.
