A state agency's vote today approving $13 million toward an Outer Harbor project means construction and landscape work could soon start, barring any legal setbacks, on converting 8 acres into an events and concert space.
Funds approved for music pavilion on Outer Harbor
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Terminal B building and Lakeside Event Lawn area, with Terminal A building and adjacent parking areas in background, Buffalo Outer Harbor.
The exterior of Terminal B on Outer Harbor, where a musical pavilion is planned. The walls and roof will be removed, leaving only the steel framing and floor. An area outside will feature greenspace and a view of Lake Erie.
Steve Ranalli, president of Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., and landscape architect Kathryn Wolf at Terminal B looking over an area that will be redone with native species of trees and shrubs.
The Outer Harbor rests on a landfill from dumped material dating back over a half century ago. The site has no soil, said Kathryn Wolf, a landscape architect with Fisher Associates in Ithaca, who helped develop the site plan.
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The plan calls for the work to be done in phases over 20 years along a nearly 1.5-mile stretch.
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