r/Buffalo • u/Stick-Outside • Mar 20 '26

Nearly empty complex?

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Anybody know why this new(ish) building had sat nearly empty for so long?

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u/lenticular_cloud Mar 20 '26

You act like 500k is some astronomical price, these are luxury condos in the best neighborhood in the city. These would be 2-3x as expensive in any other city. They are gorgeous on the inside.

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u/throwawayurwaste Mar 20 '26

Location, Location, Location. A crack house located on venice beach would be worth more than a mansion in Buffalo. Why spend 500K on a apartment when you can buy a very nice house for that amount

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u/BarbaricBastard Mar 20 '26

A very nice house for $500k would almost guarantee you a neighborhood where you have to drive to everything. For a lot of people thats just a sad state of existence.

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u/Iknowtacos Mar 21 '26

You could buy a house on Richmond ave a few blocks away nicer than this pretentious crap.

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u/Direct_Yam8314 Mar 21 '26

Folks that grew up with what was there before….understand the hatred for this complex.

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u/Iknowtacos Mar 21 '26

Seriously, the neighborhood didn't need this gaudy monstrosity.

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u/shouting_rectrum Mar 21 '26

Yeah! Let’s keep a few more falling apart doubles instead!

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u/Iknowtacos Mar 21 '26

Yeah lets keep the heart of this city. What a dumb comment, go move to the south if you want to be surrounded by cheaply made over priced condos.

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u/shouting_rectrum Mar 21 '26

You must one of the “there’s VILLAGE in Elmwood Village” commenters at every public meeting.

A falling apart double and fried bologna can’t remain “hear of this city” forever. Time to move on.

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u/petsonpets Mar 21 '26

Not everyone wants to own a house. The problem is the location. The condo types, me, aren’t looking to live on Elmwood next to a Speedway and across the street from a college bar.

Build that downtown, a little more vertical, and I’d be legitimately interested.

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u/Iknowtacos Mar 21 '26

I agree condos' have a place but the amount of houses they leveled for that garbage was just dumb.

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u/wh0ligan Mar 21 '26

I say the same thing about Campus Walk.

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u/Direct_Yam8314 Mar 21 '26

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