Archive for July 17th, 2007
This is why things don’t get built. The government needs to get out of the everyday affairs of businesses. I can see no reason why it should require government approval for any of these projects.
- Approving plans by Shanghai Red’s restaurant to convert a second-story outdoor patio that overlooks the Erie Basin Marina into a 4,000-square-foot indoor banquet facility.
- The planning board approved plans by Elmwood-Franklin School to increase its student dining room by 1,050-square-feet. The dining room hadn’t been updated since 1951.
- Approved a design and site plan by Sheehan Memorial Hospital to convert a vacant third floor into an adult day care center.
Source: No decision on Gates Circle condos - Business First of Buffalo:
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The Bass Pro debate continues today at The Church on Delaware Avenue. The focus of today’s debate is whether or not Corporate Welfare, aka taxpayers money, should be used to support and attract retail businesses.
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - A national consultant working with Gander Mountain sporting goods stores, brings his barnstorming tour against public subsidy of retail to Buffalo Monday, at the behest of several trying to fight or change plans for a Bass Pro store on Buffalo’s waterfront.
“It’s an issue of fairness,” says David Ewald, a lobbyist who has compiled research on the “billions” of taxpayer dollars regularly given to Cabela’s and Bass Pro, two of Gander Mountain’s national competitors.
Ewald meets with the Buffalo City Council Monday at 1 p.m., before taking part in a public forum on Bass Pro and the subsidy issue, at 7 p.m. in The Church on Delaware.
Ewald was invited to address the Common Council by Councilman Joe Golembek, Jr. Tonight’s public forum at The Church is being coordinated by Free New York, Inc. and the Campaign for Greater Buffalo History, Architecture and Culture. The time is 7 pm, Tuesday, July 17 at The Church on the corner of Delaware and Tupper.
