{"id":222,"date":"2007-05-03T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/05\/03\/5-questions-for-chris-byrd-in-artvoice\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:32:50","slug":"5-questions-for-chris-byrd-in-artvoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/05\/5-questions-for-chris-byrd-in-artvoice\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Questions for Chris Byrd &#8211; In Artvoice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=article-lede><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\" size=2>From this week\u2019s issue of Artvoice:<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=article-lede><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\" size=2>About two years ago Christopher Byrd fell into a conversation with Michael Miller of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, the organization which helped to save the hulking East Side vestige of Buffalo\u2019s more prosperous days from the wrecking ball, and which continues to seek the means to rehabilitate and reinvigorate the building. Like Miller, Bird has a strong affinity for the struggling Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, and the two discussed the need for an umbrella organization that would unite the voices of the neighborhood\u2019s various community and church groups. Thus Broadway Fillmore Alive (broadwayfillmore alive.org) was born, co-founded by Byrd, Miller and housing activist Michele Johnson. AV recently met with Byrd at the Broadway Market to ask him about his group and its aims: <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\" size=2><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=2><strong>Artvoice:<\/strong> What led you to start Broadway Fillmore Alive? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=2><strong>Christopher Byrd:<\/strong> We tried to put together an umbrella organization for the neighborhood that doesn\u2019t look at one thing specifically, like the Central Terminal or the Broadway Market or the churches. A group that would promote everything in the Broadway-Fillmore area. We\u2019re trying to get all the organizations in the area to work as one\u2026we all have different interests, but there are crossover issues, things that concern us all. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this week\u2019s issue of Artvoice: About two years ago Christopher Byrd fell into a conversation with Michael Miller of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-3A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}