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Why are they suckers? What city wouldn't want a gift of $1 billion, paid for mostly by someone else? Buffalo has been showered with billions and billions of OPM the past few years.
Indeed..........the "suckers" aren't in Buffalo, they're in the rest of the state.
Indeed..........the "suckers" aren't in Buffalo, they're in the rest of the state.
100% correct. Now is the time to use this as leverage to get money for your own area. Rochester is the biggest sucker. We support everything Buffalo. The opposite? Crickets
The stadium has been in the same exact location for 50 years.
The Free Market has spoken.
Any future development will be all speculation. Not saying some of it won't be successful, but if it does, then other existing businesses will suffer some type of loss. All with a smaller capacity stadium.
Can't blame them for trying something, but where have these plans been?
People just get in there cars or tailgate and go home. If the stadium was in the city and people were walking from the Metro or a parking lot, they would be more inclined to stop at a bar or restaurant. It takes hours to get home with the traffic and people don't want to get home even later. Like the previous poster noted, the stadium has been in the same spot for 50 years and putting a new stadium in the same spot isn't going to change anything.
People just get in there cars or tailgate and go home. If the stadium was in the city and people were walking from the Metro or a parking lot, they would be more inclined to stop at a bar or restaurant. It takes hours to get home with the traffic and people don't want to get home even later. Like the previous poster noted, the stadium has been in the same spot for 50 years and putting a new stadium in the same spot isn't going to change anything.
The Mckinley Mall is very close to Highmark Stadium and yet all these years, that traffic to Bills games has not helped the struggling mall much if at all. You're right in that the games crowd seemingly drives over just to see the game and then leave without taking much of a look around. Granted the Mckinley Mall didn't offer anything extraordinary that you could not find in any other American suburban mall but that's the point, the owners should have redeveloped it into something else, perhaps a mixed use development with bars and outdoor activities than just leave it as a plain old indoor mall and hope for the best. That could possibly entice people to stick around longer in Orchard Park and Hamburg. Our Gillette Stadium, the home of the NE Patriots, is situated similarly to Highmark Stadium in that it is pretty far from Downtown Boston or Downtown Providence (kind of midway between) and off a major highway but for the past 15 years it also has had a next door mixed use development called Patriot Place complete with restaurants, businesses, and shops to help entertain game patrons and sustain it throughout the year. Highmark Stadium ought to have something like that, not a strip mall or enclosed mall or anything like that but a mixed use type of development. It is not too late to consider something like this.
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