rhm

I'm just leaving this article here to vent. Allegedly a member of Wheatfield's development arm has about as much faith in the brewery in the Summit Mall as you'd expect from a dead mall project. I believe my favorite part is the statement that the demographic isn't there to support this. The demographic of Western New York won't support a brewery? Have you seen Lockport? In the meantime, I've driven up to the mall a few times, and there's still no excavator on site. Considering they have to move the power line, I'm wondering if their "work begins next month" quote in May was a bit too early. As always I'll keep you posted, although this blog is starting to look like the mall a bit. -RHM

The Big Thunder Mountain Brewery just got its $750k . Unfortunately I was blinded by my obsession to realize the reason Save-a-Lot left was because the Brewery is going in. In other words, the brewery and restaurant will be self contained in a building with no direct tunnel connection to the main mall. This also means that my belief that the brewery opening soon meant the mall was opening soon was completely wrong. Here's the updated plan of what's expected to be done by the end of the year: [caption id="attachment_953" align="aligncenter" width="1169"] Mind the terrible doodling.[/caption] A quote from the GM of the brewery does bring an interesting piece in, as we now have a clue into what's expected at the mall: “This project is just the beginning of our vision to become a sports and entertainment destination that will include two sports domes, retail, a daycare, baseball fields across from the mall and more." So, utilization of the fu...