How about adding a couple floors on top? Just kidding... Good news indeed.

We all, with a very few exceptions, rely on the anonymity provided by our BRO pseudonyms for one reason or another. The difference, YESYESYES, between referring to people by name in a comment and outing this person you think it someone named Paul Morgan should be clear to you. By outing him you violate a basic rule of the virtual community of which you just now chose to be a part. If you identified yourself it would be somewhat different, but under the circumstances I see no moral high ground upon which you can stand.

Strictly speaking the Allentown Preservation District includes properties on both sides of it's northern boundary, North Street, or so I've been told.

Is Sally on happy pills?

11111inBlo, those four buildings on the corner aren't public housing. That's a private landlord signing up those tenants.

If y'all don't want to shop at the Coop, then don't. Al-alo and others are right, people want different things and can afford to pay different amounts for them. We all make choices about what we choose to spend our money on. I'd rather have a $6.00 carton of OJ than a bottle of Sunny-D, no body's business but my own.

Living and working in Allentown a good deli could do well, at the moment all we have are section 8 geared deli's that cater to the loser 40ozer/scratch off crowd that feed off the system. In order to change Allentown and bring it back to life we need people like this to believe in the area and invest, such as many home owners and new business owners have done. If I need milk or such , other than getting in the car and driving someplace I am stuck with "Bills" at the corner of Allen...yuch. So I for one do not mind paying a small upcharge for that milk in order for the convienence of this store untill I can hit a grocery store. Should a "Dashes" decide to open in the area, that would even make that corner better. The only thing that would make this store and a Dashes crash and burn would be if they cater to the section 8 factor. In all honesty, I would love to see a store that does not accept food stamps, sell beer, scratch tickets and cheap stoggies. [ Did I just say all that out loud?] No apologies here folks

don't worry, Dash's on Hertel is expanding into the open lot west of them...should make it much less congestive...the one on Colvin is the best market in WNY

Um, let's see.... A: BuffaloBloviator - there are no $7 eggs at the co-op - there are eggs in the $3-4 range, and there are $2.50/doz. eggs as well as $1.79 eggs (I was just there). I was also at Wegmans. A dozen eggs there (regular old Wegmans eggs) were $1.79.

B: Brokeeps: Sounds like you you have some issues with your perceived "Co-op crowd." While quite off base, it also seems like you have some envy issues or something.

C: Inferno: If $6.00 orange juice was the ONLY choice, it would be wrong. It's not the only choice. And there's Wilson Farms for people who don't WANT to go to the Co-op. What's RIGHT is IF someone wants to spend $6 on orange juice, they can. God knows enough people spend more than that on beer.

Hey Chocalate: They'll have dumpsters.

This is great news for this spot. I love it!!

Plastic foo-foo food boutiques such as this are just another step down the road of turning Buffalo into a generic Anyplace USA, much like Charlotte, Phoenix, or even worse, Amherst. I personally prefer gritty, earthy, real Buffalo-style corner stores, operated by hard-working Yemenese immigrants who chose Buffalo over supposedly more "glamorous" destinations, where one can find a wide selection of honest, real locally produced products such as Genesee Cream Ale pounders, Weber's Mustard, Seneca Nation cigarettes, and well-aged baked goods -- staples of Buffalo's hard-working, working class folks, who are the friendliest in the country.

:D

I love the CO OP...they can market to whoever they want, it isn't a public service.....their peanut butter is great

I am switching sides - I am now positive - I will single handedly turn this city around!

I once busted a friend of mine purchasing those $7 a dozen "free-range" eggs at the Lex. She explained to me that the chickens were not kept in cages.

I explained to her that the only thing "free-range" in my kitchen is the oven that I retrieved from somebody's curb.

OLD PINK IS THE HIGEST REV GENERATING PLACE IN ALL OF ALLENTOWN - FOREVER - AND THE PLACE SMELLS LIKE PISS

A neighborhood convenience store is a Foo Foo Boutique? Why, because it has an awning? Would you rather them just put all the alcohol and cigarrette signs up in the window and add some graffiti to the front door? What on earth....

Tudorguy,

I share your disappointment that the $7 free-range eggs are no longer carried at the Lex. Personally, I love seeing unbridled (free-range) capitalism on Elmwood. It adds to the political diversity. Try ordering them in.

I'm glad that they are coming to the area. Hopefully they ARE over priced to keep out the scum bags. Have you ever gone into the laundromat next door? I call it "Crack Head Laundry" and it is usually filled with people that fit the description. I really think this is the reason that Quality Markets and later Latina's went out of business. They are located directly across the street from public housing. Public housing = poor people and poor people = crime.

This place will never make it! Although I appreciate the the idea, this block is loaded with Section 8 housing. These peole eat nothing more than just pizza, chcken wingsn and got the the pink, tuck their sack back and listen to silence of the lambs Buffalo Bill music......is that a run on sentence?

Anyway, not a good place for a high quality grocey market - clean up the section 8 and you will have a better chance....thanks for looking out.

Damien Abbate

For the life of me I cannot understand why Guercios on Grant only has one location. I could see them doing very well in Allentown, downtown and south buffalo. heck with the developments in the fruit belt I can see a neighborhood grocery store there as well.

The problem with B-Kwik was nothing more than format....other cities have these small grocery stores and but also with Wegmans style prepared foods. To be honest....yes the city needs more grocery stores but to make neighborhoods livable they city needs these small upscale neighborhood markets too. Its a market niche in downtown and our inner city neighborhoods that hasnt been tapped at all.

I love this site - now I remember why I moved out. From hippies to crackheads to liberals and everything in between, someone from outside the city can see why nothing ever gets done here.

Something as simple as a grocery store has inflamed 1/2 of the population of Buffalo...

good luck buff

PS - more beauacracy only makes things worse...

Speaking from experience from working in this area, this store will not last long. The people in this area of Elmwood are nothing but unemployed, non-ambitious, welfare hungry degenerates. They love to steal what they don't want to pay for and have their hands out for money all the time. Most of the people in the housing across the street fall in this category. It's harsh, but it is reality. I wish the busness much luck, but I know the outcome before they open their doors.

al-alo

I don't think that they are all seniors. There are 4 buildings on the corner of North and Elmwood that I've seen plenty of non-seniors in and out of...

sometimes high school group mentality never matures.

Well if the lines were "out-the-door" at the Quality and Latina's then Elmwood should be able to handle a small market.

I think this website should be re-named Buffalo Falling - all comments on here are now very negative and anti Buffalo - Its a shame that the entire city appears to be help hostage by a select few with now way out! Couple that with our climate and pretty soon everyone will be gone!

Apparently my statement above has some validity, that this store will be useful to the people in the neighborhood.

I like the idea of a food store in this location. I live half way between both of the Wilson Farms on Elmwood. If I'm too lazy to go to wegmans I usually end up at a Wilson Farms. I'd rather have an alternative to Wilson Farms that carries simmilar foods. Keep the store ultra clean, run a tight ship and striclty enforce a loittering ban.

its not it's

stop the madness. this place seems okay but just keep an eye on it. if there are problems then complain and complain real loud till you get satisfaction.

This is a great development for Elmwood and the surrounding residents. There are a lot of people within walking distance that this store would be very beneficial for. I hope they have reasonable hours and prices so I can do some shopping there.

I miss the old Van Slyke pharmacy but this should be a great addition...who needs the excel market when you got this place going up, hopefully the sandwich need will be addressed...but I still think an Aldis is a perfect fit for this area to cater to the poor and cheap people of this neighborhood.....no more stray grocery carts to boot.

Great I can't wait. Now that Latinas and Excell produce are closed they should get lots of business. I hope they offer poultry and other fresh meats. Fish would also be nice.

The Allentown Association is not the same as the Allentown Village Society - who are the ones that put on the Allentown Art Festival. They are the ones that battled with Music is Art and do not allow the local merchants in. The Allentown Association is completely separate from that.

^haha. great to see this highly visible location be redeveloped.

I like the idea a lot. What happens to this store though if the rumors are true and Tops moves into the former Latina's etc?

Buffaloblov - I wasn't saying the co-op no longer carries $7 eggs - I'm pretty positive they never did! I'm was just trying to point out that some people/posts inflate things for their own needs (also the the $50/hr "broom pushers in the Buffalo Tower story) or to make a point - in this case, if the co-op wants to carry items more expensive than the average - so what?

Please, I know like anyone else there is a need for section 8 and food stamps, but Allentown seems to be the destination point for those that just feed off the system and don't give a hoot for the area or Buffalo as a whole. I truly hope this market makes it.

congrats on the new store, I wish you luck in your new business

blehpunk --- Welcome to warm cozy Buffalo! You'll get used to it (or tolerate it), we (and I'm not speaking French) all do or did!

^^is that true? that would be great. The Dash´s on Hertel is pretty neglected right now. The one on Colvin is incredable

Townline - Dan's comment looks like good satire from start to finish.

foo foo market in anyplace USA? its not like Panera Breads or Cold Stone is coming to Allentown......although Panera I wouldn't mind....

yes! I can't wait! :)