How times change

[WNYresident]

Barberians Barber Shop offered more than just a haircut as DEA busts cocaine operation

When state officials announced a Buffalo Billion grant to improve Lovejoy's historic storefronts, one of the first neighborhood businesses to pop up was Barberians Barber Shop.


To hear investigators talk, the offerings there included more than just a haircut or shave.
Steve Alejandro, the operator of Barberians, was arrested with three others last month and accused of using the business at 1132 East Lovejoy St. as a front for dealing cocaine.


Located across the street from Lovejoy Discovery School, the "barber shop-social club," opened after the building was rehabilitated under the Buffalo Billion Main Street program. The program is designed to revitalize historic downtowns or, in Lovejoy's case, mixed-used neighborhood commercial districts.

http://buffalonews.com/2017/12/16/fe...lion-property/

I grew up one block down from there. I believe that was a grocery store years ago.

[Dan Roman]

So the total grant for the Lovejoy area was 275,000. They created more jobs per dollar invested than the 750 million dollar shiny, mostly empty building down near the waterfront