1. The Woodlawn Row Houses, blogged about by David Torke, are available again. A hoped-for redevelopment of them has fallen through.
2. The governor went on WBEN and basically said what everyone’s already pretty much thinking – that Bass Pro + Buffal looks worse and worse by the day. Despite Jordan Levy’s protestations to the contrary, Bass Pro isn’t coming to Buffalo. If it was, it would have executed a legally binding agreement to do so. In fact, it might have done so sometime after January 2004, when then-Governor George Pataki first announced that Bass Pro was “negotiating” to come to Buffalo. Five years later, and we’re literally no further along than we were then.
3. As the Statler officially enters receivership, consider this astonishing line from the Business First article:
The receivership does not include a 44-foot luxury yacht acquired by BSC Development’s owner, Bashar Issa, that remains stored in Western New York.
Remember the “Statler on the Sea?” I don’t know how easy it would be to sell that in this economy, but for God’s sake, he still owns it?
Anyhow, in keeping with the theme of money problems, I present to you Neil writing a letter to his bank manager:
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The Buffalo Record 
There are days, often many in a row, where I wonder if I haven’t somehow wound up in the Bizarro World where the citizens stumble around chanting the Bizarro Code which states “Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!”.
BP, you’re under the thumb.
If it hadn’t been used by now I would venture the word FAILBOAT about now but I am about 98% sure I’ve seen it here somewhere…
The waterfront project has NEVER had anything to do with Bass Pro. Ever. That was a ridiculous yardstick created by the media.
Its about redeveloping what was a gravel pit into a downtown destination. Bass Pro is merely one potential tenant for one storefront.
Yes! The Young Ones!
Terry, that Bizarro Code is so hysterically apt — nearly had me ROFL.
About the question to the Governor about Bass Pro: I love the way that The Powerful have been lining up to kick the reporter. The person who has the temerity to ask out loud about the emperor’s clothes, gets put against the nearest wall to receive a fusillade of bullets.
In any other state, or at least most of them, Bass Pro would have been finished and open for business years ago.
But not in Buffalo
and some wonder why so many people are moving away after high school or college