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+ ! ! ! MUSEUM NEWS ! ! ! + -----> Buffalo Waterfront UPDATE <----- click above for JUNE 2007 update 1897 takes shape & matures 2010 The George N. Pierce Bicycle Company Pedaling History Bicycle Museum
the site It's still waiting time.......... Our first grant application, sponsored by the City of Buffalo, filed for the goal of relocating our museum into the Buffalo Inner Harbor Historic District was well received, but unfortunately, no funding has been granted to our purpose for the current year. Your support letters that were attached to this application in great numbers have given us much attention with the Department of Transportation. We sincerely thank all of you that have responded to that past request. The response to our request was tremendous and your comments gratifying in their content. Those letters carried a strong message that will again still speak well to those who will be reviewing our amended applications in the future. While no DOT grant was currently awarded from this initial funding source we were strongly encouraged to supplement and amend the application for next year. Meanwhile, discussions and negotiations are still very active with the Wellness Institution of Greater Buffalo and Western New York, our 501c3 partner, and other funding sources as well, while our relocation dreams are maturing. We will keep you posted here of the results of that grant application to NYSDOT for funds from their Transportation Enhancement Project as well as other news on our progress.
CHAINTREUIL | JENSEN | STARK ARCHITECTS For further information check this website: CLICK HERE Click HERE for more information and a sample SUPPORT letter. Come Learn More about this Vision & Possibility What, Where, When......Visions of our Inner Harbor Possibilities….…."Into the PAST Lane"a Review of Buffalo's Transportation Heritage power point presentation & short open discussion our NEXT Presentation could be YOURS ! You are invited to hear and see this 45 minute presentation at your Western New York group meeting or function of 25 or more people, at no cost. We try to keep this presentation current with the ever-changing, developing, and ongoing progress of the Inner Harbor Historic District and lower Main Street re-development scene. Monitor our vision's hopeful participation and influence in that progress while we keep our dream alive. The first phases of the Inner Harbor Historic District are finally now becoming a reality with the re-watering of the Commercial Slip already here. Next year, the remaining site-work and landscaping 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 destination objective. Little has yet been announced or even discussed for what's to follow in the numerous development sites in the historic district. Buffalo and Western New York's dynamic and historic transportation heritages grew and spread from this waterfront leading America and the World not only on the water but from rails to roads, and from sprockets to rockets. Western New York could and should capitalize and showcase this theme to the world as this historic district is developed. This talk “ Into the PAST Lane ” is presented by Carl F. Burgwardt generally followed by a short discussion. 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |
