Congratulations to Christopher Wan and Joan Yang for their inspiring plans to develop the site at Tupper and South Elmwood into a beautiful new building with apartments and retail. Unlike most similar projects, it has the approval of neighbors and the Preservation Board. It appears not to depend on tax breaks. The design is not too tall and very attractive and they are including considerable green space instead of maximizing the number of apartments to maximize profits. For an historic neighborhood, it couldn’t be better.
Unlike this plan, we at Canterbury Woods, Gates Circle, have been living for almost six years with an eyesore. No progress is being made on the TM Montante site behind our building, not even a cleanup. In a beautiful area of the city, we look at abandoned buildings, rubble, construction vehicles, broken fences. Their plan, with no starting date, includes adding a wing to an already crowded jumble of old buildings. Why does the city tolerate this?
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Barbara Maynor
Buffalo
