Students from RIT have put together some recommendations for the Broadway Market and will present their findings on 02/17/2010 at 3 pm.
From the Facebook event notice…
Eleven students are working under the guidance of Professor Alex Bitterman, Ph.D, to revitalize the visual condition of the Broadway Market. The project allows senior-level students the opportunity to collaborate with the Broadway Market to address current issues.
The group’s final solutions will be presented to Broadway Market employees and Buffalo city officials alike. The presentation will be held at 3pm, February 17th 2010, at the Broadway Market, 999 Broadway, Buffalo, NY. The event is open to the public.
You can register for the event on Facebook by clicking here…
It should be interesting to see what they have come up with.
Why are public meetings like this always done during the day?
Most people work 9 to 5.
You can tell this is put together by academics and politicians who are out of touch with normal working people. What a joke. They just don’t get it. Maybe it is done out of design to stifle real conversation.
When is the Market going to get real business people to come up with a plan and recommendations? What happened to the task force set up by the city for this purpose? It just seems lame to have students without any real world experience come up with a plan.
I have seen so many plans like this for the Market over the last twenty years and not a single one of them has ever come to pass.
If the presentation was at a different time, I could attend.
Will it be available on the internet some where?
Stan, your comments are shortsighted and stupid. You sound like a typical Buffalo idiot. If you really want to attend, take the day off! Maybe it’s because students are not available around the clock, and maybe the “academics” have other things to do. Maybe students are more sharp than “professionals” because they’re not getting a paycheck for what they’re doing. Take your frustrations out somewhere more productive, rather than attacking someone (or a group of people in this case) that are trying to do something good (for free no less) for our city.
Brian, Stan has a legitimate concern. Are people idiots who can’t take off from work? Most people including me can’t randomly take a day off from work to attend a presentation like this.
If anyone seems like the a typical Buffalo idiot, it is you. When public meetings are held outside of times when the public can attend in force, it is counter productive and fits in to the way Buffalo typically handles public input.
I have no problem with the students coming up with a plan, but they don’t recognize that a meeting scheduled during the work day is not the ideal for maximizing on public participation.
Play nice kids…please no name calling…that does little to foster any type of intelligent conversation or conversation period.
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I can delete and will if it persists.
Have to agree with Stan here.
If you want to get people involved or interested in helping places like the Broadway Market, the best way to do it is make it easier for them to participate in meetings like this.
I would also like to come but I have a job and I can’t take off.