There have been a number of overly grandios Walgreens going up in Williamsville and Amherst that have a simaler look, less glass, more brick. Again my concern isn't for the development itself. The Idea is good. Some of you commented that it looks like downtown Philly, the article itself said it was reminiciant of downtown Torronto. That is more my problem. Elmwood is an urban area, but not the same as a downtown district. I'm worried that too much of this might take the village out of our village. It should be said that I don't care for the look of the new pano's either. Especially that gawd awfull sign. That sort of architecture has it's place, but in 5 years I don't want to be living in Chipawa phase two. The design of the new building just doesn't seem to take into consideration any of the history, or existing character of the area that make it one of the 10 best neighborhoods in the country. I realize that problems of aesthetic and neighborhood character which are relatively intagible by comparison to finacial gains, but I don't see why we can't do both. What do you guys think?

Hey all,
This troubled me quite a bit. I just happened across this posting from the Buffalo News about plans to develop the corner of Forest and Elmwood. The concept pictures look like a flying saucer vomiting a pile of bricks and glass. It's sort of like neo suburban stripmall architecture that populates the places that I finally escaped when I moved down here. I think the corner needs to be developed, I welcome that, but this seems like a bit much.



I especially worry about all of the retail space under this development. If the rent is high enough, we'll probably have a gap and a pottery barn there. Has anybody else heard about this?