by Michael Olear | Mar 29, 2013 | Buffalo, NY Real Estate
How much are you willing to pay to turn the HSBC tower into a vital offshoot of Buffalo?s waterfront development and keep it from becoming a vacant beacon of Buffalo?s blight? That?s the question that?s going to dominate the discussion through the end of next year as...
by Michael Olear | Mar 27, 2013 | Best Ideas Ever, Buffalo, NY Real Estate, Things To Do - Western NY
Built thirty years ago, the metro rail that runs both under and above Main Street is finally seeing a bright future. What’s the cause? The catalyst is the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, where 17,500 people are expected to be working soon, and they will depend...
by Michael Olear | Mar 25, 2013 | Buffalo, NY Real Estate
Actor Gary Sinise’s foundation, Building for America’s Bravest, is helping to rethink design in order to accomodate veterans who return from war with serious injuries. As more veterans returned from home with injuries, designers realized that they needed...
by Michael Olear | Mar 20, 2013 | Buyers, sell my house, Sellers
From Zillow.com: It?s a question many real estate agents hear from clients: Why do short sales take so long? Despite improving real estate markets, short sales and foreclosure sales will be with us for the foreseeable future. Many homeowners are still underwater, and...
by Michael Olear | Mar 15, 2013 | Best Ideas Ever, Strange Things That Have Happened
Many of the nation’s leading craft breweries boast their efforts of sustainability: the Alaskan Brewing Company, however, is taking it up to a whole new level. It’s Juneau factory will now be powered by its most abundant (and free!) resource: beer. By...