The downtown Buffalo that Nancy Smith remembers from her childhood can best be described in one word: booming.
That description rarely applies today. Smith, a retiree who lives on the city’s West Side, believes part of the answer is a grocery store.
“We need a market in downtown Buffalo. The way I look at it as mayor is, if downtown falters, the entire city of Buffalo’s tax base falters because the downtown tax base supports every single neighborhood in the city of Buffalo,” Brown said.
“They need one downtown,” Smith said Thursday.
Mayor Byron Brown could not have said it better himself. In fact, he has been saying it, repeatedly and loudly, in the hopes of convincing Common Council members to change their minds and approve more than half a million dollars in funds to keep Braymiller Market on Ellicott Street afloat.
But based on interviews with some of the Council’s more influential members, it appears the wishes of Smith and Brown and others may go ungranted.
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