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About a week ago, there was a fire at a vacant house located at 210 Gibson Street across from the Broadway Market.
On the next day, the demo of the house began.
Adam Cichocki of Camellia Meats sent me a picture of the demo in progress. I wanted to post more about it at the time but didn’t have the time. After a meeting at the Market on Thursday last week, I snapped some more pictures of the demo along with the street scapes of Lombard and Gibson around the Market. I still never found the time to post about what I was thinking about at the time.
Today, the Buffalo News has a picture of 210 being demo’d right on the front page as part of a story on vacant buildings around Buffalo. It was a reminder to me pull the pictures out and do a post about the area and street scape around the Market.
Any plan to revitalize the Broadway Market should incorporate a way to protect the urban landscape around the Broadway Market on Gibson and Lombard Streets. If a house or commercial structure is vacant or abandoned, there needs to be a mechanism in place to secure and ensure that these buildings are safeguarded for future reuse.
A clean and seal program should be developed to keep such structures from further deterioration and actually make the buildings look nice while mothballed for later use. It could help change the aesthetics outside the Market by making the area look less blighted.
As it stands right now, some of the buildings on Gibson and Lombard are dying the slow death we have seen with other structures throughout B-F.
The streets and buildings around the Broadway Market are a unique urban landscape here in Buffalo. They need to be included in the mix in any conversation about turning around the Market.
You are right on with this Chris. Simple planning and execution can make it happen.
The house was owned by Brian Norris of Colorado Springs. Why was it vacant?
Who is paying for the demolition?
Let’s make this happen!