Elmwood Village

Yeah.

I mostly stick to the Elmwood Village.

Well, yeah.

I mean, it's a good spot to be.

Their French onion soup is amazing.

But then it's, like, the 40 Thieves in the Elmwood Village.

Like, you always gotta go there.

Doc Sullivan's.

Some great food over there.

One day I'll reel you in and we'll go get dinner in Elmwood Village.

I'll say, Ray, you got to try this spot.

There's some great food.

So we move from Niagara Falls.

Next we have Elmwood Village under commercial real estate, and it says, okay, Jacob Tierney is telling us about mixed-use Elmwood Village building sells for one point seven million dollars.

A group of local businessmen have continued snapping up regional properties at a rapid clip with the one point seven million purchase of a mixed-use building at five-oh-six Elmwood Avenue, marking its fourth significant Erie County purchase in September.

Five-oh-six Elmwood Avenue LLC, led by Ian Finn, Matthew LaFleur, and John Papcenzak, purchased the property from FIF Development, a partnership represented by local developer Carl Frislin, according to property records filed with the Erie County Clerk's Office.

To, uh, and if I'm wrong, you can be like, "Oh, the best market is in-"

Oh, and I'm not doubting you, I'm just saying, I do go to a very nice farmers market every Saturday right down the street here, the Midwell Farmers Market in the Elmwood Village.

It's very nice.

You know what's funny? North Tonawanda, you know, from where you live and from where I live, like, I think North Tonawanda, I grew up in Wheatfield, so I had a North Tonawanda mailing address-

All of that is Region Central.

So you get a lot of east side neighborhoods, you get park side neighborhoods, you get Black Rock, little pieces of Riverside, and you get like Buff State and things below, a little bit of Elmwood Village.

All these galleries and museums and everything else and like this is an incredible cultural corridor and we just have a highway running through it keeping everything disconnected.

So they came up with a new plan that would give it a serious downgrade one lane in each direction a ton of biking and walking facilities red lights you know so that they'll stop.

So the, uh, the first layer being, and this is the gold and all this for us to, to, to really strive towards is, uh, Can I come to this part of downtown and with no plan at all, can I get my needs met for, you know, my personal needs, my work needs, my family needs? And think about different places where you can go, even within Western New York, and feel that way.

You know, it might be the Elmwood Village, Hurdle.

uh east aurora village of hamburg kenmore now all those places mentioned for one thing have a lot of residential around them you know so like you have folks that are constantly walking past those the the shops and restaurants and stuff like that and um patronizing them uh but also you have a density of experience there where if i go to a coffee shop spend 45 minutes there and then walk outside the door of that immediately right next to me is a shop or, or, or entertainment option that draws my eye.

And then the next third down, same thing.

You had a huge influx of refugees all on the west side.

You had a first-time homebuyer's tax credit, which was creating a lot of young people that wanted to purchase, and they wanted to purchase in the city, and they wanted to purchase in the Elmwood Village, but they couldn't afford it.

So they went to the West side and, um, and you had a lot of people that didn't feel like their money was safe in the stock market and they want it to be in, in, um, in real estate.

So you had this kind of like, you know, all of these things just kind of, you know, happening on the West side all at once.

Yeah.

You know, the crime that we experience in the city is the crime that you experience in the city.

The criminals aren't like, well, we can't go to the Elmwood Village.

They love the Elmwood Village.