The Aud To Be Demolished

[RockStar36]

With a deal struck for a Bass Pro Shop to be built in downtown Buffalo, some room needs to be made on the Waterfront. The vacant Memorial Auditorium will be demolished.

The Bass Pro deal calls for $10 million to be provided to the city to handle the demolition. Construction of the Bass Pro Shop is expected to begin sometime in the middle of 2008, with the store to open in 2009.

http://wgr550.com/sabres/fullstory.php?id=2278

[Michael82]

The Bass Pro deal is alive again?!?! :shocked:

[TheGhostofJimKelly]

Give me a row of blue seats.

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

The Bass Pro deal is alive again?!?! :shocked:

3 Sources tell 2 On Your Side that a deal with Bass Pro will be announced on Friday.

That announcement will take place at the Erie Canal Harbor Commission's meeting Friday morning at 10 a.m.

The sources tell us that the Bass Pro location will not be the old Memorial Auditorium. Instead, a smaller store will be built on the waterfront.

In recent weeks, the focus for Bass Pro moved from the Aud to a site across the street near the historic Erie Canal terminus. The store could be built to resemble a historic 1800s building.

The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation said in December that a comprehensive plan for development along Buffalo's inner and outer harbor was in place.

The commission presented the plan, which includes thousands of square feet in retail, business, and residential availability near the current site of Memorial Auditorium. It includes a museum on the inner harbor, and a maketplace similar to the one in Seattle, Washington.


"This is a 'go' project," said Quinn.

The commission is going ahead with studies to figure out whether to gut the Aud or tear it down completely.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46682

[THATHURMANATOR]

Good knock that **** hole down.

[Michael82]

3 Sources tell 2 On Your Side that a deal with Bass Pro will be announced on Friday.

That announcement will take place at the Erie Canal Harbor Commission's meeting Friday morning at 10 a.m.

The sources tell us that the Bass Pro location will not be the old Memorial Auditorium. Instead, a smaller store will be built on the waterfront.

In recent weeks, the focus for Bass Pro moved from the Aud to a site across the street near the historic Erie Canal terminus. The store could be built to resemble a historic 1800s building.

The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation said in December that a comprehensive plan for development along Buffalo's inner and outer harbor was in place.

The commission presented the plan, which includes thousands of square feet in retail, business, and residential availability near the current site of Memorial Auditorium. It includes a museum on the inner harbor, and a maketplace similar to the one in Seattle, Washington.



The commission is going ahead with studies to figure out whether to gut the Aud or tear it down completely.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46682
gut the aud. It's a beautiful looking building on the outside and I bet that they could do some nice stuff with it.

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

As the late Seymour H. Knox said

http://www.classicbuffalo.com/images/TheAudFinal.jpg
[CENTER]"FAREWELL OLD FRIEND"

[Crisis]

Knock the f'er down. It's about time.

Memories will always be there, but the building should've been gone a long time ago.

[GThirst]

Somewhat sad to see it go, but all it had were memories.

Would be neat if they let us buy the old seats and such!

[Nighthawk]

See ya! It's about time! Buffalonians hold onto things way too long, thus the reason we have so much trouble making progress. I'm glad to see it finally being knocked down. Fun place to watch a game at, but those days are long gone, so it is time.

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

The City of Buffalo has lost so much the huge marble giant Lehigh Valley R.R. station on Main Street that was replaced by the Buffalo News, the DL&W R.R. terminal on the foot of Main Street that was raised to build the skyway (the car barns still remain today and is used by the NFTA but the station is long gone) the H-O Oats grain elevator that was raised to make way for the casino that the Indians are building ARE YOU STARTING TO GET THE PICTURE? The City of Buffalo doesn't know how to preserve their heritage that's their problem their solution is to rip down old buildings instead of finding a way to use them again! A good example of this is the NYC Buffalo Central Terminal R.R. station on the East Side of Buffalo that was stripped of every valuable item and neglected for years. That was until the Buffalo Central Terminal Restoration Corp. bought the building for $1 and started restoring it back to life they boarded up the broken windows, got the 4 clocks on the tower restored, re-lit the top of the tower, removed the esbestos, repaired the leaking roofs, re-opened the baggage claim area, bought the original clock that used to stand in the middle of the concourse back and restored that in working order. The Aud was built in the same era as the Boston Gardens, Chicago Stadium (replaced by the United Center) Maple Leaf Gardens, The Montreal Forum, the orignal Madison Square Gardens So see you can't rip down the Aud it's part of history!
My Grandpa bless his soul taught me about herritage of Buffalo he loved the city that he grew up in and he loved the old buildings that were in Downtown Buffalo and he would be rolling over in his grave if he could see what they were doing to all these magnificent buildings.

[carybillsfan]

3 Sources tell 2 On Your Side that a deal with Bass Pro will be announced on Friday.

That announcement will take place at the Erie Canal Harbor Commission's meeting Friday morning at 10 a.m.

The sources tell us that the Bass Pro location will not be the old Memorial Auditorium. Instead, a smaller store will be built on the waterfront.

In recent weeks, the focus for Bass Pro moved from the Aud to a site across the street near the historic Erie Canal terminus. The store could be built to resemble a historic 1800s building.

The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation said in December that a comprehensive plan for development along Buffalo's inner and outer harbor was in place.

The commission presented the plan, which includes thousands of square feet in retail, business, and residential availability near the current site of Memorial Auditorium. It includes a museum on the inner harbor, and a maketplace similar to the one in Seattle, Washington.



The commission is going ahead with studies to figure out whether to gut the Aud or tear it down completely.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46682

At least this makes sense now with the added retail and residential space. I have not understood for years now what the big draw of the Bass pro shop was. There's one in Greensboro, I've been there, probably won't go back. Bunch of Hunting/fishing gear a couple of tanks with fish in them...wowee!!! I heard a lot of people say this store was going to save downtown, I could never understand it.

As far as historical places, tear the Aud down, its been abandon too long, there are a lot of other, nicer looking, buildings downtown. Besides with the right developer that area could be very nice.

[Dude]

The City of Buffalo has lost so much the huge marble giant Lehigh Valley R.R. station on Main Street that was replaced by the Buffalo News, the DL&W R.R. terminal on the foot of Main Street that was raised to build the skyway (the car barns still remain today and is used by the NFTA but the station is long gone) the H-O Oats grain elevator that was raised to make way for the casino that the Indians are building ARE YOU STARTING TO GET THE PICTURE? The City of Buffalo doesn't know how to preserve their heritage that's their problem their solution is to rip down old buildings instead of finding a way to use them again! A good example of this is the NYC Buffalo Central Terminal R.R. station on the East Side of Buffalo that was stripped of every valuable item and neglected for years. That was until the Buffalo Central Terminal Restoration Corp. bought the building for $1 and started restoring it back to life they boarded up the broken windows, got the 4 clocks on the tower restored, re-lit the top of the tower, removed the esbestos, repaired the leaking roofs, re-opened the baggage claim area, bought the original clock that used to stand in the middle of the concourse back and restored that in working order. The Aud was built in the same era as the Boston Gardens, Chicago Stadium (replaced by the United Center) Maple Leaf Gardens, The Montreal Forum, the orignal Madison Square Gardens So see you can't rip down the Aud it's part of history!
My Grandpa bless his soul taught me about herritage of Buffalo he loved the city that he grew up in and he loved the old buildings that were in Downtown Buffalo and he would be rolling over in his grave if he could see what they were doing to all these magnificent buildings.Didn't they already say that rehabbing the Aud was cost-prohibitive due to the amount of asbestos removal? Regardless, what's the point of keeping a building around if it's not being used? If the land can be put to better use then tear it down. Nostalgia doesn't pay taxes.

I hope if they sell stuff from the interior that I can buy one of the giant cigarette butts that hung from the ceiling. :up:

[Historian]

I'll take a pair of golds.

[Typ0]

The Aud was built in the same era as the Boston Gardens, Chicago Stadium (replaced by the United Center) Maple Leaf Gardens, The Montreal Forum, the orignal Madison Square Gardens So see you can't rip down the Aud it's part of history!



funny that those cities saw fit to rip down those buildings when they built new ones. If buffalo is able to get something going it's going to be behind massive infrastructure changes in the entire downtown and waterfront areas.