by CHTT1
Yep, all Buffalo needs is some giant corporation with really deep pockets to buy the Terminal.
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New York State has announced a grant of $5 million to weatherize and repair the long-vacant Central Terminal railroad station on Buffalo's East Side.This is precisely the type of approach that led to MCS being chosen by Ford. Button the building up and make it possible to conduct restoration work.
gokeefe wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:23 pm I think it's notable that the municipal government felt the real issue worth fighting for here was the downtown station. I can empathize with their concern. Losing Exchange Street station while gaining something further out of town that could serve everything was not really a step forward. In some ways it would be a repeat of the original mistake made when BCT was built.To be fair to the NY Central, it wasn't clear that the BCT location was a mistake when it was built starting in 1925. The population of Buffalo had almost doubled in the past 30 years-- from 255k in 1890 to 505k in 1920. There was no reason to think the city wouldn't keep growing, with downtown expanding the 2 miles east to the new location. There would have been plenty of institutional memory with the Central of Commodore Vanderbilt's construction of the Grand Central Depot miles north of the center of New York City. When planning started in the early 20's they were about as far removed in time from 1871 as we are from the Nixon administration.