Published July 29, 2025
quotes Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr. in an article about the planned revitalization of the Buffalo's Central Terminal. Taylor said he fears that current East Side residents won’t be able to reap the benefits of a renovated terminal. “I always say there’s the rhetoric and then there’s the reality,” he said. “There’s all kinds of positive rhetoric that centers around the terminal but to me it’s a big gentrification factory and anyone who says that it isn’t is just lying.” “Do we really believe that the city of Buffalo and private investors are putting millions … to build a community for low-income Black and Asian people?” Taylor asked. “And if so, where in the United States have they ever done that before? Nowhere.”
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