Colin Dabkowski wrote a cool column called Don’t turn the ‘New Buffalo’ into the old suburb in the Buffalo News today.
From the column:
Our city, any city, should be a space for innovation, for idiosyncrasy, for the celebration of the different. We can make it better without diluting what made it great in the first place.
I wrote the following when I shared the column on Facebook.
This column made me think of the Broadway Market. While other cities have taken their old public markets and made them something spectacular, the Broadway Market sits languishing. I know everything bright and shiny is happening in other places around town. And that’s fine. But places like the Broadway Market are connections to Buffalo’s old soul–old Buffalo. Buffalo isn’t cool because we can ice bike on a fake canal now. Buffalo is cool because living breathing connections to the city’s past like the market exist. It is the authentic. It’s this authenticity which has attracted new blood to Buffalo.
The east side lost a lot in Buffalo’s late 20th century decline. It’s time to position treasures like the Broadway Market for rebirth. And don’t even get me started on the Central Terminal.
(Thanks, Colin Dabkowski. A very thought provoking column challenging us to peer into the soul of Buffalo.)
