Grand Island Welcome Center
Also know as the former Dunlop HQ on Long Road at the 190, at the North end of the island.
This eyesore has sat, vaccant and rotting, for a decade or more and it seems that local government is powerless to force the owners to mow the grass or board up the windows, let alone clean the graffitti. This is the first thing many visitors see when they enter Grand Island. No wionder there is so much vacant commercial real estate in a very wealthy town.
Maybe use it as a fire training site
I think your Supervisor is a Grand Island Fireman - see if they can use the building as a fire training excerise and burn it down! This company was the savior for Grand Island when they arrived to lower your taxes with it's great promises. Oh well that's pretty much how most of W.N.Y. has gone, but I agree the real estate market - other than the Casino, is a bust in your neck of the woods.
Grand Island Anti-Business!!!
I wouldn't say it's anti-business, it's called " Unless you can line my pocket, I won't let you line yours" People like Mrs. Lang, L Grant and a few others years ago took over Grand Island. They were out for their own good, plucking up prime development land cheap - and then getting the development aid to promise big business. You do have a Business Park, you do have the new Imigration / B. Patrol building, you have the Fucillio Dealership (god I hate that commercial), you even have that huge, money rich drug co. - can't think of it's name. I think what Grand Island needs is to eliminate the bridges and keep everyone on the island to support the small businesses that come and go like flies. The trouble is, the town as you mentioned, won't let development go on the west side of the 190? There are various areas where the state put in pipes just as you metioned for sewer to be expanded to the west. I guess the right people with the power don't own property there. Amherst was fairly flat on dvelopement until people on the board owned some of the areas that got developed - look at it now. Good luck, I still just want to go to the Bedell House ;) and have a beer, spill some so it runs down the floor into the river. Or the Idlehour - is that still there?:cool: