What do you think your city will look like in ten years. What are the new projects and plans for the future of your city? Post pictures and info:

As the state of Delaware continues to grow, Wilmington will become bigger and bigger as it is the economic and cultural capital of Delaware. Wilmington's Riverfront is now a second area in the Central Business District, with a few companies having Global, North American, or Regional headquarters on the riverfront. Residential developments all along the Christina River will make the Riverfront a perfect balance between a residential neighborhood and commercial neighborhood. What was a complete urban wasteland in the early 1990's is one of the best waterfront turnarounds in the Northeast (Baltimore's Inner Harbor has to be the best).

Center City will continue to be one of the densest, most vibrant, and most urban downtowns for any mid-sized city in the country.

As Center City and the Riverfront continue to grow, there will be an economic need to connect the two areas to each other. The Market Street and Ships Tavern areas will connect the two together. Right now, Market Street is mainly junky wig shops and other unimportant stores. As the Riverfront fills up more and more, Market Street will become more desirable. Hopefully, the wig shops and pawn shops will get the boot for better retail as more and more people take interest in Market Street. Also look for some midrises and highrises along Market Street or parallel streets like Shipley Street or King Street as Center City and the Riverfront become connected. The Market Street growth is just beginning now, so this wave of development should hit in the next few years.

Delaware's very favorable business laws have made Wilmington a great place for companies to start, whether as a place to put their headquarters or just to incorporate. Wilmington will continue to grow as long as these favorable business laws stay on the books. Those companies will keep bringing in more people which will help the city and the state. And the companies will pay lots of taxes in our state, which will help to fund most government projects in the state.

I made a thread highlighting the growth in Wilmington. Read the articles I have in it to get a better understanding:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=408977

Also, check out the Wilmington Development News thread to see what's been going on. There's only a few of us in there, but despite the lack of interest from everyone, there are a lot of announcements large and small worth reading about. Many neighborhoods throughout the city are seeing an upswing as they become more desirable.

how I envision Buffalo in just 10 years...

With Buffalo gaining alot of condo units, apartments and loft conversions downtown the entire CBD will be transformed from a deserted concrete jungle to a thriving and modern place. With UB, Buffalo State and numerous other collegic establishments thoughout the city, the emphesis on keeping the jobs HERE will be a continued battle. Elmwood and Hertel along with downtown will highlight the city's assets as far as culture of the mainstream. New mid rise residential units are almost expected now, and with office space actually filling up and alot of places moving around...we might expect more than Bashar Issa's tower.

Toronto and NYC business interest as well as regional location are already adding to the revitalization of Buffalo. More and more we are hearing about out of towners looking to Buffalo for expansions and to invest in properties.

The big obstacle for Buffalo is getting businesses and residents to the city, while we have taken a HUGE fall in the manufacturing sector, we are gaining in bio-chem and the advanced medical fields as well as some tech industries.

Buffalo in 10 years will yield:
population over 300,000
developed waterfront
M&T being a fortune 500 company

Buffalo should focus on cleaning and redeveloping the eastside, it might not be the biggest and most incentive filled project for white politicians, but the overall health of the city would increase ten fold.

10 years from now, Buffalo will be better than it is today by far, and should be heading in a great new direction.

lets cross our fingers and hope DT doesn't find this thread. eeek

My predictions for 2015 Buff: 1 new 40 story tower, many new dense (non vinyl) neighborhoods going up near downtown, 5 new 10+ story condo "towers" in downtown/waterfront, skyway gone, abandoned rusty grain elevators gone, a statue replica in front of City Hall of the Sabres 2006-2007 Stanley Cup :), population gains in the city (not just metro), Marine Drive Apts finally torn down to make way for condos, Byron Brown is in year 10 of his 40 year reign as mayor, 3 new subway lines, Governor (President-elect) Spitzer has gotten Albany out of WNY's business allowing Buffalo to have more control over its own destiny rather than being at the mercy of Brooklyn and the Bronx.

skyway. is that that freeway that bisects the city? reminds me of the genius who decided to plunk done a freeway along the hudson in albany.

Buffalo2017 - Downtown Buffalo is a lot healthier. However, the city population continues to bleed but most losses are be offset by the development in downtown. University Heights is an "area in transition" as most of the current population has died or moved out to the suburbs. The population of the city is around 220,000-230,000 and the metro is just under 1,100,000. The city's banking scene has changed dramatically as well - M&T Bank merged with Wachovia in 2009 and as part of their growth strategy, HSBC moved several departments to their headquarters in suburban Chicago, which was completed in 2007. A final study for a new convention center is underway and there is talk of demolishing the old Main Place complex -- but Buffalonians are rallying to save a "classic" piece of 60s urban renewalist architecture. The Aud is still standing, vacant, but proposals have surfaced to turn it into a Buffalo Sabres Museum and Hotel Complex, highlighting their 2006-2007 Stanley Cup winning season. Bassar Issa was run out of town in 2009 when it was revealed that his principal funding was from al Qaeda in Iraq. Once a Buffalo staple, the Anchor Bar was burned in 2008 due to franchising into other cities. As it burned, locals chanted "WE MUST BREAK THE BOND OF THESE EVIL CHAINS!" The Buffalo Bills relocated to either Birmingham, Alabama or Portland, Oregon, in 2012 and no one noticed. Polish people still have questionable taste in lawn decor and the Honda Civic with a fart can has replaced the IROC Camaro the vehicle of choice in Cheektowaga.

That's the Buffalo of the futureeeeeeee.

Baltimore: 2017...hmmm...I'll be 39 so...oh wait this isn't about me. lol! Anyway, Baltimore ten years from now will be a city still on the move. Not only will the population have stabilized, but it will have risen to around 750,000. Unfortunately, many are DC transplants who want nothing to do with Baltimore other than a cheaper place to live. Baltimore won't have one new tallest skyscraper, but three. 10 Inner Harbor and 300 E. Pratt Street will duel for the title of tallest, but in the end 1 Light Street will prevail at over 900 feet, in a design that will earn it the best architectural design award of 2014.

yea he found it...but atleast it was funny

^ did u really think he could not destroy a thread by going out his way to bash the Buff haha

Okay, fine. Here's the non-humorous projection:

Buffalo2017 - Downtown Buffalo is a lot healthier. However, the city population continues to bleed but most losses are be offset by the development in downtown. University Heights is an "area in transition" as most of the current population has died or moved out to the suburbs. The population of the city is around 220,000-230,000 and the metro is just under 1,100,000. The city's banking scene has changed dramatically as well - M&T Bank merged with Wachovia in 2009 and as part of their growth strategy, HSBC moved several departments to their headquarters in suburban Chicago, which was completed in 2007.

the 220,000 - 230,000 is a little drastic.

If anything I would bet Buffalo would retain M&T and build on what it has here...it is the new BIG BANK of WNY.

HSBC, who cares...good bank, and they are all over in this area which means they will keep alot of offices here.

Wachovia, I dunno...I have not heard anything about that...but I have heard about a Chase and WaMu merger. :)

You forgot to add that Aaron was elected mayor and booted you to Nashville because you failed to pay your taxes.

Well, I'm going on estimates from 2000 (292,000) to 2005 (272,000).

I think 2015 Buff at the low end will be around 240,000 and at the high end around 285,000. imo it will completely revolve around jobs (obviously) and if some new decent housing can be built/renovated/converted in the city. I think a lot of people outside the city wouldn't mind moving back into the city if the housing stock was a little better. However, I think it would be a little tooo optimistic to think we could get back to 300,000 peeps by then despite what Byron Brown claimed during the mayoral debates (300,000 by 2009, yeah ok).

M&T obviously isn't going anywhere...I'll make a bold prediction that Wells Fargo will return here where it all started tho not its HQ but maybe a few branches or a call center.

i can see buffalo at around 250K within the next 20 years if current trends remain. i think the more important figure is the overall metro region and if that can level off, that's what's counts.

We can predict the future?

Their will be more loft appartments and condo's downtown, and more people living downtown, but as whole, Buffalo & WNY is going to continue to lose population due to the fact of the economy & the jobs situation. with all the thousands & thouands of Mfg. jobs that are going to be lost and
the health care jobs being lost. It's going to be very very hard for most of them to find a job in WNY. plus it's going to shrink the tax base even further,
Eventually the tax base won't even cover the expenses that are skyrocketing such as, (welfare, Medicad, Public employees salary's, pensions and medical insurances and the vitial services,) and that's after they have raised all property taxes & sales taxes to the limit.
The Federal Government has to come in and start the 1st Federal Government Control Board because the The City of Buffalo Control Board & Erie County Control Board are not doing the job ! The Federal Control Board will get court order's to merge all vitial services, all school districts will merged into the Erie County school system, their will be one Metro police force. etc.......
The Buffalo Bills will have moved to Los Angeles in time for 2008/09 season
Hopefully they will be able to land a CFL Team to replace the Bills and a year later the Buffalo Sabre's will move to Portland. But MR G. Decides to bring in another AHL team or move the Rochester Americans to Buffalo and play in
PayChex's Arena (Mr.G bought the naming rights after HSBC pulled out of Buffalo when all of HSBC's contracts and leases expired and they moved the majority of their jobs to Chicago) that's was the second blow
to Buffalo's banking industry, (Wachovia bought M & T in 2008 and moved
most of their jobs to Charolotte) But in 2007 , The Sabres made the
Stanley Cup finals, but lost to the Anahim Ducks, and NO GOAL II was born

I'm glad all the people who really hate Buffalo are having fun with this...this really is an opinionated outlook...based on what we know, and what we see.

oh well.

Wow, Pebbsy, isn't that a bit drastic? I still think M&T is a takeover target, but that's just this bankers opinion.

The thread is called "Your City's Future" , not "How Can Buffalo Get Any worse"!!! Well, i thought it was a good idea... thanks DT and Pebble Creek!:bleep:

Good Lprd, Fprmer, learn how to spell!!!!

I found this interesting, though:
The Federal Government has to come in and start the 1st Federal Government Control Board because the The City of Buffalo Control Board & Erie County Control Board are not doing the job !
Why would the Feds jump over the State in creating a regional control board, due to a lack of actions of boards answerable not to the Feds, but rather the State? Besides which, as if they're ones to talk!

You've really showcased your ignorance and intellectual ineptitude probably more in that one sentence than in everything you've ever written combined. At least everything else in your post conceivably could happen, you just blew it there.

The Sabres made the
Stanley Cup finals, but lost to the Anahim Ducks, and NO GOAL II was born
And we'll still celebrate our season more than the winner, so who's the real winner? Pro sports are entertainment, and entertainment only. No different than the events in the Roman Coloseum hundreds of years ago.

"No Goal II" already exists, it happened in 99-00 in the first round against the Philadelphia Flyers when John LeClair scored on a shot which ESPN cameras later revealed actually went through a small hole in the side of the net.

Nice try, but grow a brain first, junior.

Their will be more loft appartments and condo's downtown, and more people living downtown, but as whole, Buffalo & WNY is going to continue to lose population due to the fact of the economy & the jobs situation. with all the thousands & thouands of Mfg. jobs that are going to be lost and
the health care jobs being lost. It's going to be very very hard for most of them to find a job in WNY. plus it's going to shrink the tax base even further,
Eventually the tax base won't even cover the expenses that are skyrocketing such as, (welfare, Medicad, Public employees salary's, pensions and medical insurances and the vitial services,) and that's after they have raised all property taxes & sales taxes to the limit.
The Federal Government has to come in and start the 1st Federal Government Control Board because the The City of Buffalo Control Board & Erie County Control Board are not doing the job ! The Federal Control Board will get court order's to merge all vitial services, all school districts will merged into the Erie County school system, their will be one Metro police force. etc.......
The Buffalo Bills will have moved to Los Angeles in time for 2008/09 season
Hopefully they will be able to land a CFL Team to replace the Bills and a year later the Buffalo Sabre's will move to Portland. But MR G. Decides to bring in another AHL team or move the Rochester Americans to Buffalo and play in
PayChex's Arena (Mr.G bought the naming rights after HSBC pulled out of Buffalo when all of HSBC's contracts and leases expired and they moved the majority of their jobs to Chicago) that's was the second blow
to Buffalo's banking industry, (Wachovia bought M & T in 2008 and moved
most of their jobs to Charolotte) But in 2007 , The Sabres made the
Stanley Cup finals, but lost to the Anahim Ducks, and NO GOAL II was born

** Breaking News Ralph Wilson owner of the Buffalo Bills has just released
a Public announcement on the noon news. Ralph Wilson said
" The people of WNY better enjoy their Bill's while they have them, because
their pushing us out!" (re: NFL Commisioners, Commitee's & Owner's)
I will have to change my prediction. and say next year will be their last season in Buffalo, before the Bills move to LA **

Wow, Pebbsy, isn't that a bit drastic? I still think M&T is a takeover target, but that's just this bankers opinion.

I thought you were a hotel clerk.

DT moves out of the Cheek and sells his house to a very nice "ethnic" family. That scares all the white people out of town. The Galleria closes down and a major new mall opens downtown. Bass Pro stumbles on a new fashion trend completely by accident making their stores the new chic trendy destination for the young and hip. Buffalo has their only downtown store making the lower main street area a center for fashion trends. Fprmer goes into massive depression from the constant stream of positive news comming out of Buffalo. Since he can't sell his Cheektowaga property he decides to burn it down and ends up in jail where he meets the man of his dreams

... is cut short on October 16, 2012 by a dramatic fall from the roof of the Buffalo City "Issa" Tower during dedication ceremonies; which happens to be caught live and uncut on WGRZ as he lands on South Elmwood Ave directly in front of the camera crew. This is the result of the Seneca Gaming Corporation rejecting his 17th attempt towards getting a job as a restroom attendant in the Buffalo Creek Casino; citing "a lack of experience in the custodial arts". That, and because he misspelled his name 17 different ways on 17 different applications.

It causes some slight damage to a news van and some understandable splattering on the pavement (some of the remains end up in the storm sewer, however, no "brain drain" occurs). Nothing that the Buffalo DPW's newest entry-level hire, a man by the name of Joel A. Giambra, can't handle, though. The news van is repaired later that week, and a copy of the live feed finds its way to YouTube, where it'll become the most popular video clip in the site's history until finally surpassed in August of 2041 when a cat is filmed chasing a dog for 5 miles while running entirely on its hind legs through a thickly wooded area in northern Idaho near the Canadian border.

... Hey, it's what the voices tell me. I'm merely a vessel for these prophecies.

Yay, I move out of the Cheek in steel's futurvision!

^^ Mine says you do too, and end up settling somewhere between Gaitlinburg and Pigeon Forge, TN. Big tourist area, you end up amassing a portfolio of some 50 hotels/motels. Your only deathbed regret is that you couldn't lure a Westin.

Again, don't shoot the messenger.

No Westin?!

:gaah:

Oh, forgot!

I thought you were a hotel clerk.

Aren't you a CAD monkey? ;)

:lol: This shit is good. I should have called it "let's dump on Pebble Creek & DT Thread"!!

I say call it "Dump on Everyone" thread.

No Westin?!

:gaah:

Not seeing one. Either Knoxville or Asheville gets one instead. The prophecy isn't very clear on which one it is. (You're probably seeing that it can be very detailed with some minutae, yet quite vague in others. I have no control over this.)

You do get Buffalo's Adam's Mark to relocate there, however. Don't be disappointed - it actually works out quite favorably for all involved, and it frees up valuable real estate for Mr. Issa's fifth foray into North American residential development (third in Buffalo; sixth total and fourth in Buffalo if you count the Statler). It doesn't tell me what it is, or what the others are (or where/which other city); so don't ask.

Mr. Issa does eventually meet his stateside downfall when he tries to knock down the Rath Building, however. The historic preservationistas practically burn him at the stake for that faux pas.

It causes some slight damage to a news van and some understandable splattering on the pavement (some of the remains end up in the storm sewer, however, no "brain drain" occurs).

Now that was funny!

:lol: This shit is good. I should have called it "let's dump on Pebble Creek & DT Thread"!!

... or the "Buffalo Non-Development Thread".

Hell, you could just merge this thread with the Non-Development Thread. It's not like you guys do anything different in there than what you're doing in here.

^^ True that, regrettably.

Back to the topic, people ;)

Hartford will be different than it was in 2000.

It will be gentrifying to a good degree. With more than 1,000 housing units u/c right now, the downtown population will explode. There will be many additions to the skyline, including a 20 story tower, and another set of 25 twin condo towers, a science center, and I hope, a new skyscraper that will help growth. The skyline will grow outward to the north and south.

Hartford will get a new arena by 2010, with hopefully a NHL team (rebirth of the Whalers :D) and downtown will go north, past the I-84 barrier. Parking lot seas will be turned into office space and condos, and the riverfront will be a part of the urban fabric. It will also see a growth in younger people, sick of the suburban living, who will move to the many developments going on.

Hartford will, regretably, NOT see a large population growth or will even see a loss by 2016. But I don't care.

The metro will grow to 1.45m. Sprawl will continue, and will eventually go to the Mass border making Hartford and Springfield truly one metro. The commuter rail that we will have by then will have good frequency between the two, and New Haven, and hopefully light rail/trolley is implemented to connect the metro into one.

To check out what's going on right now, please check out the link below :)

hotel clerk > cad monkey

i was one for 9 years...

i hated it.

really.

I think it depends on what your job is. I generally don't get to do a whole lot of CAD in my job (it's technically "below" my position), but I usually enjoy using it when I get the chance.

Their will be more loft appartments and condo's downtown, and more people living downtown, but as whole, Buffalo & WNY is going to continue to lose population due to the fact of the economy & the jobs situation. with all the thousands & thouands of Mfg. jobs that are going to be lost and
the health care jobs being lost. It's going to be very very hard for most of them to find a job in WNY. plus it's going to shrink the tax base even further,
Eventually the tax base won't even cover the expenses that are skyrocketing such as, (welfare, Medicad, Public employees salary's, pensions and medical insurances and the vitial services,) and that's after they have raised all property taxes & sales taxes to the limit.
The Federal Government has to come in and start the 1st Federal Government Control Board because the The City of Buffalo Control Board & Erie County Control Board are not doing the job ! The Federal Control Board will get court order's to merge all vitial services, all school districts will merged into the Erie County school system, their will be one Metro police force. etc.......
The Buffalo Bills will have moved to Los Angeles in time for 2008/09 season
Hopefully they will be able to land a CFL Team to replace the Bills and a year later the Buffalo Sabre's will move to Portland. But MR G. Decides to bring in another AHL team or move the Rochester Americans to Buffalo and play in
PayChex's Arena (Mr.G bought the naming rights after HSBC pulled out of Buffalo when all of HSBC's contracts and leases expired and they moved the majority of their jobs to Chicago) that's was the second blow
to Buffalo's banking industry, (Wachovia bought M & T in 2008 and moved
most of their jobs to Charolotte) But in 2007 , The Sabres made the
Stanley Cup finals, but lost to the Anahim Ducks, and NO GOAL II was born

yaaay!!!!! "Fprmer" is back! Now we have a really stupid person to laugh at again!

Hey now, I haven't worked front desk since like, 2001. Ahh, so young then. Poor Sheraton. I miss her.

nice job starting this thread Spaulding, you get what you ask for. [shakes head] apparently there are no moderators in the Northeastern forum.

I figured that this would turn into a thread only for Buffalo people, so I waited to answer the first part of the question, and only answered the second part.

Here's what I would like to see 10 years from now:

~The Christina Gateway Center built:
http://www.addresswilmington.com/2ndandkingtower.JPG

~Midrises and highrises along King, Shipley, and Orange Streets surrounding and towering over the Market Street retail center. I would like to see the wig shops and pawn shops along Market Street closed up as soon as possible.

~Run-down neighborhoods completely razed to get rid of crackhouses. In their place would go new houses, that through private funding and charitable organizations, would help low-income families own new homes for a fraction of the price. They did it in Eastlake, and they need to do it in other neighborhoods. They can start with the area surrounding the intersection of 22nd and Lamotte Streets near Brandywine Village. I think about half of the record 22-and-counting homicides this year occurred within two or three blocks of this intersection.

Basically, turn this:
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5254/dscf3377xxnq8.jpg

Into this:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6273/dscf5880xxnf5.jpg

~Going along with my previous note, I would like to see tougher punishments for drug dealers in the city. They are the reason why there are bad neighborhoods in Wilmington to begin with. Hilltop, the East Side, Prices Run, Quaker Hill, and similar rundown neighborhoods would be much nicer if people didn't have to worry about getting caught in crossfire.

~Annexation of the land north of I-495. Move out the industrial businesses and use that Riverfront land south of Christina Landing for something better. Build all the way to I-495. Industries surrounding the Port of Wilmington can stay. Move the Market Street and Walnut Street businesses closer to the Port so that it's not too big of a deal.

~A new arena to hold concerts and big functions in. delaware never gets any concerts because our biggest city doesn't even have an arena. Barely anyone comes to Newark to play, even though it's only 8 miles away and part of the metro area, because it's only Newark. While we're at it, put a minor league hockey team in the arena. ECHL would be fine.

~Do something with the 7th Street Peninsula. It's a wasteland. I don't care if it gets turned into a park, a part of the National Park System, gets a casino, gets built into a residential neighborhood, but at least do something with it other than keep a bling eye to the tire-dumping in the ditches along the road.

~A new tallest, surpassing 1201 Market Street. I don't know where it would go that would make the skyline still look balanced; maybe if the DoubleTree somehow went out of business, that would be a perfect spot where a new tallest would blend in to the surroundings.

~Hopefully the city population will come out of stagnation and move beyond the 72,000 area. 100,000 would be really nice, but 80,000 is fine.

DT moves out of the Cheek and sells his house to a very nice "ethnic" family. That scares all the white people out of town. The Galleria closes down and a major new mall opens downtown. Bass Pro stumbles on a new fashion trend completely by accident making their stores the new chic trendy destination for the young and hip. Buffalo has their only downtown store making the lower main street area a center for fashion trends. Fprmer goes into massive depression from the constant stream of positive news comming out of Buffalo. Since he can't sell his Cheektowaga property he decides to burn it down and ends up in jail where he meets the man of his dreams

The story continues....

Turns out DT was working at a motel 8 in Birmingham when he spilled some grits on a customer's coat. He was beaten up and lost all his memory. He wandered the country stealing to make ends meet till he was arrested and tossed into the slammer (Attica). Guess who his cell mate was?

nice job starting this thread Spaulding, you get what you ask for. [shakes head] apparently there are no moderators in the Northeastern forum.

Whats that supposed to mean? I forgot there are jerks here that need to ruin everything. I thought it was a good idea.

what the hell is going on here?

:ohno:

Global Warming/Oil shortages will cause all those "shiny" sunbelt sprawltropolises to show their true colors become unsustainable maggot mounds, devoid of water, fuel, and any other resources necessary for self sustaining.

All the sheep will have to move back up north to temperate climate (err, what was once) cities like Buffalo which will experience massive building booms unseen since the 1920s.

STEEL will be appointed urban design/architecture czar and Buffalo will become the Paris of the great lakes. UB North will become the new regional landfill, while the actual University is built somewhere downtown.

Buffalo will be the place to be! :cheers:

I think I want someone a bit more open minded to be our czar. kthx.

Sounds great for us, but...

...if that were ever to happen, this nation's economy would probably be so devestated that there would be no rebuilding. Just dank, overcrowded shithole cities like you had in Europe and even in the US to an extent before and during the beginnings of the industrial age. Those with the resources would be better off than the others, but would also be cash cows subsidizing everyone else (well maybe that isn't so different from now). The US will be a Third World country (granted we won't be alone).

Personally, that's not something I look forward to. As bad as things may look around here, you still have to admit that in the grand scheme of things we have it pretty good.

what i wanna know is why steel does not live in buffalo because after all:

buffalo > chicago.

;)

STEEL will be appointed urban design/architecture czar and Buffalo will become the Paris of the great lakes. UB North will become the new regional landfill, while the actual University is built somewhere downtown.

You wish. It would cost a lot of money to build a university in downtown. And then you have to spend tens of millions of dollars to remove everything in UB North. The state would rather spend a couple million to renovate and expand UB North than take it down and build and new one in Buffalo. Pluse, it would be idiotic to put a landfill in the middle of Buffalo's largest suburb.

I say, the city will get is ECC North in downtown.

While Bashar Issa is building 18, 30-68s buildings in downtown. The price tag= over $2 billion

Buffalo's population is around 550,000 people, with a metro population of 2.1 million people

The East Side is no longer all wooden housing. 80% of the wooden homes have been replaced with new homes.

The Central Terminal is back in use with apartments on the upper floors and a shpping center on 1st floor.

The Seneca Indians lost all of their money on the Buffalo casino. Giving their land to the city. Then Uniland built a 400 room hotel, 450 apartment units, and 845,000sqft of office space on the land.

The coble stone district has become the "French Quarter" of Buffalo. That is after I am complete with it. (We have to get back in to our roots guys)

1,200 condo units with a view of the Falls.

RIT has become the institution of technology. Giving way to thousands of new jobs in WNY.

Albany has officialy been named "Hell"

All in 10 years? Teh-rendy!

how many square miles is buffalo? can't imagine it's that big. utica is only 16 sq/miles...the size of a wal-mart parking lot here in houston.

Phillys future is in the hands of next years elections to vote in a new mayor. Hopefully Philadelphians won't make the stupid decisions they've been making for the last 4 decades and vote in a mayor who seems genuine in fixing the real problems that are facing this city instead of ignoring them(like Street did).

how many square miles is buffalo? can't imagine it's that big. utica is only 16 sq/miles...the size of a wal-mart parking lot here in houston.
41 if I'm not mistaken.

All in 10 years? Teh-rendy!

Its all in 10 years?

Well, maybe one of the things I listed will get done. If we are lucky.lol.

41 if I'm not mistaken.

that's it? wow. even if it dropped to 250K...buffalo is still hella dense.

what i wanna know is why steel does not live in buffalo because after all:

buffalo > chicago.

;)

But neither compares to Houston

I think I want someone a bit more open minded to be our czar. kthx.

What would be the advantage of being Czar if you have to be open minded?

Utica - none.

NYC - oh boy.

The metro pop of Buffalo says 1.1 million on Wiki, and city is 292k.

Whats that supposed to mean? I forgot there are jerks here that need to ruin everything. I thought it was a good idea.

dude, i'm just messing with you...haha, It was a good idea, just I wouldn't have started the thread knowing the people on our forum and the lack of moderator we have have here.

But neither compares to Houston

we have drive-thru liquor stores and loads of gun stores. :)

^^ Sounds like a southern New Hampshire. Only they don't have drive-thrus (that I know of), but they are located with convenient highway access, including one directly in a rest area (Hooksett).

wilmington in 10 years... hmm first we annex all the suburbs right outside the city. towns like bellefonte, penny hill, edgemoor, elsmere, greenville, newport, marshallton, and pike creek. if doing so our pop will be around 250,000-350,000. annex the land farther south than the riverfront and build stadiums there, and a concert venue and a huge ass mall. expand the riverfront from 95 to the 7th street pennisula, and build skyscrapers from the brandywine village neighborhood all the way to MLK Blvd. rebuild the amtrak station and make it look better its so boring right now. they should buy back the ING building and tear it down and expand the station. then i would turn the airport into a more major airport even though the PHL airport is right up the road.

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