\u00a0\u201cFrom its booming city center to its buzzing West Side, Buffalo \u2014 once considered too dicey to even walk around \u2014 feels like a city on the cusp of something\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBuffalo\u2019s rough edges haven\u2019t been entirely smoothed. I was still warned away from neighborhoods like the East Side. And empty storefronts pock some downtown blocks. But momentum\u2019s in the Nickel City\u2019s favor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both of those paragraphs are from the same article just posted by the NY Daily News about the city. I didn\u2019t bother posting the link because I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll flood your news feeds throughout the weekend. It\u2019s a nice article about how the attitude is changing on the West Side and basically tells everyone to go to all the places every one of these articles tells you to go.<\/p>\n
Whoever is in charge of the promotion of this city right now, whether it\u2019s Visit Buffalo Niagara or some other entity, y\u2019all are doing a bang up job. You can\u2019t go a week without seeing a new article like this. Congratulations you have successfully turned the West Side around enough where a majority of the people here aren\u2019t afraid of it.<\/p>\n
Instead of warning people of the East Side though, why not tell them about the gems hidden in an area that is waiting for its turn? Wouldn\u2019t it make sense to find some businesses or landmarks in the area and hype them up to maybe draw investors into an area that so many people try to ignore? I like to believe that time is coming sooner than later, with the recent news of the brewery going on Clinton in the Kaisertown\/ Babcock area and the proximity of Larkinville, people are going to have to go out of their way to ignore the East Side.<\/p>\n
I may not be involved as much as I\u2019d like in promoting the area, maybe it\u2019s time to change that. Here\u2019s hoping the steps I\u2019m taking right now will help bring a positive effect to an area I feel a connection to more than most other parts of the city.<\/p>\n
Stop being afraid and start welcoming the rest of the city into the renaissance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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