I’m going to this, but i’ll be late:
Carl F. Burgwardt………………….
Visions of our Inner Harbor Possibilities…
“Into the PAST Lane”
FREE – Lecture – power point presentation & short open discussion
7:00 PM – Tuesday, 18 July 2006 – BECHS Auditorium, Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society 25 Nottingham Court, Buffalo, NY
The first phases of the Inner Harbor Historic District are finally now becoming a reality with the re-watering of the Commercial Slip only a few months away. Next year, the remaining site-work of the district will continue using the balance of the budgeted funding to complete the funded portion of Empire State Development Corporation’s project. The result will then leave lower Main Street with a cleaned-up cobblestone streetscape, some designated foundation relics, a re-watered Commercial Slip and a couple of new museum buildings for the relocated Naval & Servicemen’s Park but little more to support a successful or dynamic tourism objective. Little has yet been announced or even discussed for what’s to follow in the numerous development sites in the historic district.
This talk “Into the PAST Lane” will be presented by Carl F. Burgwardt followed by a discussion by interested followers of this project. Mr. Burgwardt is the co-owner and director of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum in Orchard Park, NY, a life-long Western New Yorker and a retired Buffalo executive who, with his wife, is presently seeking to re-locate their museum to an appropriate historic site at the inner harbor.
It’s always interesting to see what local folks have imagined for the inner harbor, and with development hicupping to a start, it might give others ideas to run with.
Release courtesy Buffalo Blue Bicycle
