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Very cool to see what's going on in Erie! Thanks for starting this thread and keeping us all updated.

My dad lived in Erie as a kid and graduated from Strong Vincent HS in the 1960s (which is still open, apparently), so I scoped out his old neighborhood and explored downtown a couple years ago. From what I could see, some of it looks pretty disinvested and the city seems to suffers from pretty bad sprawl (like any city in the Rust Belt, or in generally really) but there are some pretty solid bones in those old neighborhoods too and some great old architecture downtown. I live in Buffalo, only 90 miles away, and travel to Pittsburgh a lot, so I'll have to check out some of this stuff I read about on my way sometime...