Michael Mroziak • Thu, Aug 18, 2011: Buffalo’s Common Council President says there’s one person who is to blame for the Broadway Market’s continued operation without a dedicated full-time director. That person, says David Franczyk, is Mayor Byron Brown.
“We’ve given him every opportunity to move forward on the Broadway Market and he’s doing absolutely nothing, dragging his feet,” said Franczyk in a telephone interview with the Am-Pol Eagle.
Last week, the Am-Pol Eagle published a story featuring comments from vendors concerned about the continued lack of an executive director. Franczyk was contacted for an interview but after several traded phone messages, both sides were finally able to correspond but not until after last week’s press deadline.
“I think that’s the biggest problem right now because the Common Council has no authority to pick an executive director. For some reason, he doesn’t think it’s a priority. Everything else to him is a priority,” said Franczyk. “Even when we got the million dollars two years ago for the Market, I got it out of him kicking and screaming. He wanted to trade it for another project in the Masten District which I was going to support anyway.”
