Outer Harbor Development

The Buffalo Niagara Partnership and Joel Giambra's office must like the Opus East LLC plan for outer harbor development the best. How do we know? Because the Buffalo News says that plan is the "likely" winner. Some highlights:

• A 300,000-square-foot convention center.
• A 3,500-room convention hotel and winter garden complex.
• More than 1,000 apartments, townhouses and condominiums.
• A 500,000-square-foot festival pavilion.
• A 215,000-square-foot sports center.
• A 150-suite hotel/water park/aquarium complex.
• 200,000 square feet of Class A office space.
• 236 boat slips.

I prefer the WestEnd plan, but since I'm not Andrew Rudnick, nobody gives a rat's ass. And don't ever expect to see this thing built. Not the way it's set out now. This is Buffalo. This will be mired in litigation for eons. /cynicism