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39 Buff. L. Rev. 313 (1991)
Buffalo Change & Community

handle is hein.journals/buflr39 and id is 321 raw text is: BUFFALO LAW REVIEW Volume 39 Spring 1991 Number 2 Buffalo Change & Community PETER R. PITEGOFF* I. INTRODUCTION ; F ROM Rust Belt to Money Belt in Buffalo.. , announced the X headline in the New York Times. Since the late 1980s, the na- tional and international press has reported the apparent renaissance of Buffalo, New York,2 as this medium-size industrial city strives to dis- tance itself from a troubled past. So, too, have local players broadcast and celebrated Buffalo's re-emergence.3 The overall rate of unemploy- * Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, School of Law. Pitegoff formerly was legal coun- sel to the Industrial Cooperative Association in Boston, Massachusetts, and a community organizer in Oakland, California. He was lead organizer of the April 1990 Conference on Buffalo Change and Community and founder of the community economic development law clinic at the University at Buffalo, School of Law. 1. Sack, From Rust Belt to Money Belt in Buffalo, N.Y. Times, July 20, 1990, at B1, col. 2. 2. Crawford, Buffalo: Our Kind of Town, Toronto Star, July 3, 1988, at Al, col. 1; Buffalo Shuffling Back to Prosperity, THE ECONOMIST, July 2, 1988, at 24; McKibben, Buffalo Stirring Again, Boston Globe, Oct. 26, 1990, at 61, col. 3; Lowenstein, Buffalo Starts to Come in From the Cold, Wall St. J., Dec. 8, 1988, at A2, col. 2; MacKenzie, Buffalo Finally Favored, N.Y. Times, Jan. 23, 1991, at A19, col. 1; Auerbach, Once an Industrial Dinosaur, Buffalo Prospers from Free Trade Pact, Washington Post, July 16, 1989, at H2, col 2. Cf. Fink, Buffalo Shines in Yet Another Survey, Business First of Buffalo, Mar. 27, 1989, at 1, col. 1 (cites growth in non-residential construction). Note, also, favorable endorsements in Gannes, Some Real Comers Among the Midsize U.S. Cities, FORTUNE, Oct. 23, 1989, at 74, and in M. BARONE & G. UJIFUSA, ALMANAC OF AMERICAN POLI- TICS 1990 799 (1989). 3. See, eg., Madore, Buffalo Making Big Pitch to Nation's CEO's, Buffalo News, July 19, 1990, at D9, col. 2; Bus. WK., July 9, 1990, at 79 (announcing special advertising section, Buffalo: The Hot Spot for Business); Campbell, MBA Program Reins in Foreign Business to WNY, Business First of Buffalo, Aug. 6, 1990, at 9, col. 1. Professional sports franchises serve as popular vehicles for Buffalonians to celebrate and broadcast Buffalo's re-emergence, most notably the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (reaching the Super Bowl in January 1991, only to lose by one point to the New York Giants), the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League, and the Buffalo Bisons, a successful Triple A minor league baseball team and a finalist in a bid for a Major League Baseball franchise. See Summers, Opening Day Puts Major League Road Warriers in Gear, Buffalo News,

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