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[Chadwick Bay Chad]

2 minutes ago, JoeF said:

Thanks, Don.  These are really fun reads...fiction or non-fiction makes no difference to me.  If you are a kick-butt insider than thanks for posting this stuff.  If you are a fiction writer, I am enjoying it anyway!

Joe push your believe button

[The Frankish Reich]

1 minute ago, Dunkirk Don said:

Not in Buffalo 

OK, TBDers - start listing your guesses.  I haven't lived in WNY for many, many years, so I'm not one to speculate.  What's going on in the east suburbs/exurbs? Any good redevelopment prospects? It'd have to be on the Thruway or nearby if the "entertainment complex" is part of the mix.

[Chadwick Bay Chad]

Any questions for my source  

[Steptide]

I will say, having driven to medina plenty of times that there is a ton of open space between Batavia and Buffalo. This would be my guess 

[BillsFan130]

1 minute ago, Dunkirk Don said:

Any questions for my source  

I appreciate any info you post here regardless of what some people say. I am sure a lot feel the same way. Thank you for all of this and thank you for continuing  to post.

 

 

[runner68]

2 minutes ago, Dunkirk Don said:

Any questions for my source  

Don, my guesses are the new STAMP plant being built by the state in the Town of Alabama or an area further south by Darien Lake. Am I correct with either? 

[Chadwick Bay Chad]

Close

[runner68]

Just now, Dunkirk Don said:

Close

It must the in Batavia Downs casino area, as Thurman Thomas is heavily involved with that. 

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Pembroke...they've got a real nice reststop 90 Eastbound 

[The Frankish Reich]

2 minutes ago, Steptide said:

I will say, having driven to medina plenty of times that there is a ton of open space between Batavia and Buffalo. This would be my guess 

What's going on near Darien Lake? 

[EmotionallyUnstable]

1 minute ago, Dunkirk Don said:

Close

 

Please no

[Chadwick Bay Chad]

I need to get to sleep.  Will have more tomorrow.  Former bills are part of an investment group.  What bills have a restaurant in Buffalo now.  They recently bought 10 acres paid pennies for the land.   Watch the news announcement of new restaurant and shopping center will be announced in next two months.  They will make more money in this venture then they did playing

[PolishDave]

1 hour ago, Dunkirk Don said:

The property around the stadium will be hot property for hotels bars, restaurants etc.   

I am currently a low level investor in an investment group that is working on a big land deal so I cannot share location but if you check public records on transaction it will lead you there.  My percentage is small but very lucrative.   We are going after parking. No up keep and money generator year round

 

There are several kind of crappy gin mills and a half way decent restaurant and zero hotels by the existing stadium.   Why is a new one going to attract all these new hotels, bars, restaurants and etc.?

[The Frankish Reich]

1 minute ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:

 

Please no

Why not?  A lot more accessible for Rochester. If the Bills and their "small market" are going to survive, they've got to draw a larger metro market than just Buffalo. Toronto concepts are always intriguing, but that damned intl border makes it too difficult.  We need a true EU style Canada-USA border, but until we have that, it ain't gonna work.

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Just now, The Frankish Reich said:

Why not?  A lot more accessible for Rochester. If the Bills and their "small market" are going to survive, they've got to draw a larger metro market than just Buffalo. Toronto concepts are always intriguing, but that damned intl border makes it too difficult.  We need a true EU style Canada-USA border, but until we have that, it ain't gonna work.

 

It'd be a longer drive for me 

[JaCrispy]

10 hours ago, John from Hemet said:

Will people stop attacking everyone that says they have a source?

 

For christ sake guys

Thank you!!!

 

Now that we have that squared away, I have a confession- I have a source...

[The Frankish Reich]

Just now, EmotionallyUnstable said:

 

It'd be a longer drive for me 

Ahh... i see.

[Augie]

4 minutes ago, PolishDave said:

 

There are several kind of crappy gin mills and a half way decent restaurant and zero hotels by the existing stadium.   Why is a new one going to attract all these new hotels, bars, restaurants and etc.?

 

I questioned that earlier, then I thought more about the Braves stadium. They built the new stuff as a year round attraction that just happens to be used on game day. That didn’t exist near the old stadium. If it happens as part of a master plan and it’s close enough to a sufficient population base, it can work. 

[PolishDave]

6 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

I questioned that earlier, then I thought more about the Braves stadium. They built the new stuff as a year round attraction that just happens to be used on game day. That didn’t exist near the old stadium. If it happens as part of a master plan and it’s close enough to a sufficient population base, it can work. 

 

Atlanta is a much larger city though.  No?

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Seems to me it would make sense at the site of the old Thruway mall which is currently being demolished it appears.

 

That would be a place close enough to heavy population that could support a conglomerate of new restaurants, bars, clubs and hotels.   And it would still be in Erie County -a county with enough money - close enough to not deter Canadians - and slightly more attractive to people traveling from Rochester area.

 

Pembroke - too desolate for restaurants/bars and in Genesee county which could not even afford to build the road infrastructure for such a project.

Edited December 14, 2017 by PolishDave

[Augie]

1 minute ago, PolishDave said:

 

Atlanta is a much larger city though.  No?

 

ABSOLUTELY, but it wouldn’t have to be on that kind of scale to be successful. It all depends on the location and how they execute. It could be it’s own destination if done properly. (For the record, in ATL it’s VERY close to the intersection of I-75 and the beltway - easy to get to for a lot of people.) Time will tell.