Corner Lots are the welcome mat to a Neighborhood especially one on a main drag . An unkempt empty lot on a corner can make the first impression a bad one for a entire Community. This large lot at 1921 Niagara St. corner of Hamilton has been in disrepair forever it's location and size make it a viable location for a wide variety of uses. However the
Barbed wire fence that has seen better days and the 3' high grass in the summer time are not the best selling points. Any suggestions on what can be done to advertise this property or get the current owner to take responsibility please chime in.
Corner Lots are the welcome mat to a Neighborhood especially one on a main drag . An unkempt empty lot on a corner can make the first impression a bad one for a entire Community. This large lot at 1921 Niagara St. corner of Hamilton has been in disrepair forever it's location and size make it a viable location for a wide variety of uses. However the Barbed wire fence that has seen better days and the 3' high grass in the summer time are not the best selling points. Any suggestions on what can be done to advertise this property or get the current owner to take responsibility please chime in.
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Anyone know who owns this lot? Perhaps complaints to the city's Resolution line (formerly the Complaint Line) are in order. This lot is an eyesore. I keep thinking that a fenced in playground for kids would be good here. In NYC there are playgrounds like that on busy street corners, behind tall fences for the safety of the children so it could work here too. It would be a lot safer than the kids playing in the street, like they do now.
call the number that is on the sign in the first photo and ask the owner to maintain his/her property. Just curious, what originally stood on this corner lot. It's quite large so I assume that several buildings stood here once.
The city of Buffalo Property Info site list the owner as IGNAZIO NAPOLI He or She possibly holds up to 6 other property's in the city. Four of these are COMMERCIAL VACANT LAND one is a parking lot next to a APARTMENT that is also owned by the same. List of Property's as follows-
474, HERTEL 98. W La Force.
476, HERTEL 43. W La Force.
478, HERTEL West Cor La Force.
1286, KENMORE 967.70 E Delaware.
1288, KENMORE 942.7o E Delaware.
1921, NIAGARA North Cor Hamilton.
I work two blocks from this lot and always thought it would be a great place for an express car wash. A wet t-shirt car wash would be even better.
I hope your joking about the car wash
right? The beautiful passive park at Niagara and Amherst was once purposed to be a muffler shop.These do it yourself car washes contribute nothing to the community except noise pollution at all hours of the night. I think an outdoor market would be more community friendly. But i would go for a bikini sponge hand car wash.
No, I wasn't joking.
I was thinking more along the lines of an a small automated car wash (bikini clad buffers at the end of the line :)
Whether or not they contribute "nothing but noise at all hours of the night" is a matter of opinion, and highly unlikely if the car wash closes at 9 PM.
Regardless of what that vacant lot eventually becomes, if anything, I hope it is a privately owned business and not another playground, garden, or other "community" space which does nothing to improve the economic conditions of the area.
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