Two words:

LAZER.

TAG.

have cillian murphy wake up there butt nekkid.

Episode of Ghost Adventures?!

Condos for the homeless.

If you buy it with the intention of implementing your idea, you get the million.

School for training doctors and nurses.

duh

Cythraul: I change my answer. I'd turn it into a sex club.. for the homeless.

It's an abandoned building. That's what it is already.

South Harmon Institute for Technology

" The developer would not receive the prize until it has completed purchase of the property"


So its just a million off the asking price is what it boils down to.

tnpir: Two words:

LAZER.

TAG.

two other words:

PAINT
BALL

JC

El Pelon: Episode of Ghost Adventures?!

Darn, you beat me to this. I was going to offer "Ghost Hunters" as well.

Damn, that place is much bigger than I initially thought.

ltdanman44: So its just a million off the asking price is what it boils down to.

Yeah, forget that. It's like a $100 million lottery ticket where the prize is $1 million.

The people of the lower west side in Manhattan just lost their hospital with a 161 year history, and will soon get a luxury condominium development instead.

FTA: The hospital's attractive location

I wonder why all the hospitals in attractive locations seem to be tanking?

Film set.

/But geez folks, this is Buffalo. You know the winning developer is just going to knock it down and leave the site vacant when they go bankrupt.

In Dayton, they took an empty hospital and turned it into a bunch of independent offices. There weren't a lot of tenants when my center first opened, to the lab manger and I would run around the building requisitioning everything that wasn't nailed down. And at one point we got a crowbar, so we got a few things that were.

What I'm saying is, looting is kind of awesome.

JoeCowboy: tnpir: Two words:

LAZER.

TAG.

two other words:

PAINT
BALL

JC

AIR
SOFT


/Why not dedicate one floor to each...

There's an old shut down nursing home for sale near where my wife works. If I had the cash, I'd buy it up. Not sure what I'd do with it yet; that town is one big HOA. It's zoned residential, but I'd get lynched if I turned it into a cheapy apartment complex. It was build in the 60's, so there are probably some abatement needs, plus it needs to be rid of the old person/urine smell.

QuinnTheFetus: JoeCowboy: tnpir: Two words:

LAZER.

TAG.

two other words:

PAINT
BALL

JC

AIR
SOFT


/Why not dedicate one floor to each...

Damn you all. Get out of my head.

A place as large as that could easily be remodeled as a mixed use apartment/professional office building with some small shops and restaurants on the ground floor.

Actually as I recall, the Feds own quite a few large buildings that could be put to some better use (heh, like Congress). Someone ask the Republican presidential candidates what to do about them.

In line with the hospital in NYC that got turned into condos for those who made their living from the arts: How about renovating it into upper end condos for those who a) are in the health care field - minimum wage nursing home aides all the way through brain surgeons, or b)any frontline municipal worker, cop, firefighter, social worker, sanitation worker, teacher. Yeah, that's soshalizm, Fark You.

Anyone holding elective office is immediately disqualified.

ABC & NBC already did it and made alot of money off of a show called scrubs.

Scrubs season 10?

Turn it into a giant Starbucks with a logo so big you could see it from the moon.

LoneCoon: In Dayton, they took an empty hospital and turned it into a bunch of independent offices. There weren't a lot of tenants when my center first opened, to the lab manger and I would run around the building requisitioning everything that wasn't nailed down. And at one point we got a crowbar, so we got a few things that were.

What I'm saying is, looting is kind of awesome.

Just avoid the blue powdery bits.

Kit Fister: I'd go Paintball over Lazer Tag.

agrees (nsfw)

The Third Man: Film set.

/But geez folks, this is Buffalo. You know the winning developer is just going to knock it down and leave the site vacant when they go bankrupt.

This is an upscale urban neighborhood (for Buffalo). Buffalo has had problems with vacant and abandoned buildings in other places, but this is a prime piece of real estate that someone will do something with.

As for people asking "why not put a hospital there?" the reason is that it is being made redundant by all the new facilities and expansion at the Roswell Park medical corridor just a couple miles down the road.

I vote for conversion to condos/apartments.

Cultivation.

QuinnTheFetus: JoeCowboy: tnpir: Two words:

LAZER.

TAG.

two other words:

PAINT
BALL

JC

AIR
SOFT


/Why not dedicate one floor to each...

Unreal Tournament '12

A-10 Warthog practice target.

Dig under it and lower the entire building enough that the roof goes down to about 50 feet below ground level, then make it into a secret underground lair.

Zombie Games.

The survivors get only what they carry in with them and what they can find for seven days. They run out of paintball ammo? They lose and die. They run out of food and water? They lose and die. The team argues and splits up into little groups? They lose and die.

All televised over CCTV feeds. Best reality show ever.

/be kind of fun to have 'zombie' as a job description on a resume
//be even cooler to have 'zombie lord'

Cythraul: sandi_fish: Condos for the homeless.

I change my answer. I'd turn it into a sex club.. for the homeless.
nekkid laser-tag for the homeless...it will naturally become a sex club for the homeless at some point.

Doc Daneeka: The Third Man: Film set.

/But geez folks, this is Buffalo. You know the winning developer is just going to knock it down and leave the site vacant when they go bankrupt.

This is an upscale urban neighborhood (for Buffalo). Buffalo has had problems with vacant and abandoned buildings in other places, but this is a prime piece of real estate that someone will do something with.

As for people asking "why not put a hospital there?" the reason is that it is being made redundant by all the new facilities and expansion at the Roswell Park medical corridor just a couple miles down the road.

I vote for conversion to condos/apartments.

Given the economic picture for commercial buildings nationally, I'm hardly surprised that no developers bid on this one. It's hard to imagine that the "Price reduced by 1 million dollars" sign out by the street will help much.

We've been travelling around the country a fair bit recently, and I've been amazed at the number of "see-throughs" everywhere we've been.

wolf_in_cheapclothing: South Harmon Institute for Technology

Was about to ask if it was an abandoned mental health facility.


/hot

Hide a salarian genophage researcher in it.

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/ Serious answer: "haunted hospital restaurant"

Came for The Joker. Leaving satisfied.

Serious answers:

Old hospitals are being moved out of largely because they're old buildings that don't work well with modern medical technology. Same thing happened at the hospital I worked at about 6 years ago. They built a new location where they would be able to modernize the layout, put related services adjacent to each other, standardize patient room layout throughout the floors, etc. Doing the improvements this way was more economical and less intrusive to current patient care than trying to massively renovate the old structure.

And the old hospital building there has a new owner, too: an inpatient medical testing facility purchased the building to use as their testing site. While the layout may not have been ideal for treating ER patients and running an ICU, it has all the equipment and connections required for the testing group's work.

TL;DR version: Sell it to someone in the medical field that actually has piles of money to throw away. Like the drug industry. Or insurance companies.

/not patient care, works in the A/R side of healthcare

Scientology tree fort?

Backdrop for snuff film?

/just watched 8mm a couple of days ago.

Fill it, obviously. When do I get my prize?

Turn it into a refuge for mentally ill homeless people. Have several dozen edged weapons hidden in various locations, from scalpels to sabres. Have several dozen hidden cameras installed. Chain and padlock doors, drop food in from a helo once a day, and sell the footage from the cameras to whatever network pays me the most.
Am I a bad person?