It's about time and I hope it happens fast. For years now Zepto [?] has been trying for years to pull this beauty down for...you guessed it PARKING! Thanks to the likes of the Mascoti brothers and First Amherst it is now a proven fact that these run down empty shells of history can be saved and re-adapted for future generations to enjoy.
{MEL @ Brown University, met your mother last night at the Buffalo Flag pick up, she's a delight!}

This building screams late 19th century Buffalo... it looks exactly liek the house Mark Twain used to live in on Delaware (I saw a print of what it looked like in a locally made journal). I love these buildings. Lets hope something great happens with this one too. I'm getting very excited about Main St! Maybe I'll move over there!

"Screams"... good choice of words! :)

Things like this really make you wish you had the money to do something. Hopefuly there is someone to take their cue from the Moscatis

If I had the resources to develop this building I would jump at the chance. Unfortunately I have one of the many low-paying jobs in this city. There's also a similar building on North St. near Main that I have wanted to purchase thats just sitting there.

Im not worried about it in the least.

The Life Sciences Complex opened this week and the redevelopment of the adjacent 1800s buildings will be completed soon.

This is one building that isnt going to get torn down and its only a matter of time before the right developer continues to redevelop buildings up and down Main Street.

OF COURSE, THE TRICO BUILDING MUST GET RESOLVED AND REDEVELOPED. ITS HOLDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD BACK but then its only a matter of time because the next expansion of the Life Sciences Complex should include the Trico Building.

Oh and one other thing, if the city really wanted to help the eastside and the Life Sciences Complex it would stop directing traffic to the Elm Oak Arterial and distribute traffic to the Best, Jefferson and Virginia exits so the Life Sciences Complex could expand into the entire Fruit Belt District. What would it take changing 3 exit signs?

Forgive me if I'm not jumping up and down with joy, but ten years ago the City issued an RFP for both 858 and 864 Main, got four proposals, identified the best one, and rejected them all anyway. (I know because I submitted the best proposal.) A decade of further decline and deterioration followed, with the City escaping all the blame.

What's different now? I am not just being cynical, though that is part of it. Why should the City actually accept an offer? Why should they consider a proposal from anyone other than their small stable of big donor developers? What IS different now? I really want to be persuaded. Argue with me.

Gee Cynthia, you neglect to mention that 844-864 (5 buildings or 7, depending on how you count them) are being developed. In fact, they are almost finished. 888 is being made into a restaurant. 916-918--well, there might be progress. Doesn't that make a bit of a difference? There is a lot more activity on the block than there was before and that will bring people in to develop this building. There is already interest and believe me it is being taken seriously.

And, yes, we can thank the medical campus's presence for some of this. And we have different people in City Hall.

With the re-development of the "Granite" near by, this should spark interest in this building. It could also be developed into apartments and or office space and I can even picture a small retail store on it's first floor.
Let's see what happens.

The momentum of re-development progress along this area of Main Street is very encouraging. I look for more project announcements along Main Street soon.