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Originally Posted by Blurr
Meanwhile others are praising Hamilton...
http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/884855.html
Anyway.
Oh come on. With the exception of a few, those buildings would largely have been demolished in any decent city.
The problem is not the buildings that are gone. It is that in the 80s 90s and 00s this city lost the very ambition the city was built on. Nothing happened.
If this city was doing better business wise I wouldn't mind grabbing a little more red chalk for some of those buildings on King.
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Nice article, in the Buffalo News.
I tend to agree with you on the assessment of the old downtown. I am old enough to remember most of the old downtown. I was very young but my recollection of those areas of the downtown were of derelect buildings.
I am sure there were some buildings that would have survived to this day, but for the most part, the areas that were bulldozed were razed because they were derelect.
The old CIBC building had to be jacked up every few years. It would sink. When it was built there was no such things as pilings. You could tell when they jacked it up because the sidewalks around the building would slope away from the building for a year or two, until it once again would sink.