Our second Rust Belt Takeover weekend is almost here! Buffalove or bust, baby!

LISTEN UP! These are the important things you will need to know!

Sleeping Arrangements: If you need a free place to sleep, contact Bernice directly at 716.237.0419 ASAP. The Buffalo’s Young Preservationists have kindly offered their city and their homes to us for the weekend.

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Buffalo Packing / Prep List: 

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  $15 cash / check and a blanket for your Richardson Complex Tour

• If you have a…. putter/golf ball for the first ever Rust Belt Take Over Mini Golf Tourney
• Comfy shoes, flash light, rain gear
• Clear space on your phone for some serious IG action
• Snacks / Water Official Schedule: 

Friday Evening, July 15th!!!

Random Awesome Tour: Join us at 1100 Niagara Street (AKA The Agway) from 7pm – 8:45pm. The building is VACANT. It will be DARK. It is a giant white malting house next to a tim hortons located on the West Side of Buffalo. You can’t miss it!

WELCOME PARTY!!!!

9pm – ??? Welcome party at the Pop In!  The Pop In is a special pop up event space on the West Side of Buffalo. We will welcome you with the food Buffalo is famous for – pizza & wings! Beer will be available, too. Donations welcomed. Parking is free and easy on Grant Street. 218 Grant Street. Buffalo, NY 14213

Saturday, July 16th!!!

9am – 10:30am = Tour of Silo City located at 87 Childs Street (right near the Ohio Street Bridge). Silo City is the largest collection of grain elevators in the entire world!!! Meet with Chris who is writing a book on this stuff and Dana, curator of the famous “City of Night” which is the worlds largest grain elevator party! The gate will be open – park inside the gate. We will start the tour at 9:10 sharp – BE ON TIME because they’re very vacant and require traveling in a group! Read about them here: http://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com/2015/06/seven-ways-enjoy-silo-city/

11am – 2pm = Tour of the Hydraulics Neighborhood & the Rust Belt Takeover Mini Golf Competition! Meet at 716 Swan Street (Hydraulic Hearth) at 11am Sharp. We will be picking teams and giving out awards to the winners – Larkin Links is the smallest mini golf course in the rust belt and all the holes have something to do with the history of Buffalo! Food trucks and beer will be open for drinking / eating purposes.

3pm – 5pm = Downtown Tour by Derik Kane. Meet at City Hall located on Niagara Square and explore all the incredible architecture including the Ellicott Square Building and The Guaranty Building by Louis Sullivan! The tour will end around 5pm at EXPO, Buffalo’s newest food market which also happens to be next to our historic Market Arcade building!

5pm – 7:30pm = BREAK. Go explore the central terminal, check out canal side, see Niagara Falls, sleep… whatever.

7:30pm – ??? = Resurgence Brewery Party for Bernice & Nate’s birthdays. YAY!!! Bernice and Nate are both part of the Buffalo’s Young Preservationists. Resurgence is a fun brewery with giant size games, loads of beer and fun AND is located inside a historic saw tooth building. 1250 Niagara Street. http://www.resurgencebrewing.com

Sunday, July 17th!!!! 

9:15am – Noon = Breakfast on the newly restored Olmsted designed Front Lawn and a tour of the Historic Richardson Complex! Breakfast will be served between 9:15 – 10am and there will be a tour at 10am. YOU MUST BE ON TIME and it costs $15 cash / check. This is a crazy special tour – we can’t stress this enough – tours like this are incredibly rare and the building is being renovated so this will be the last time you’ll see it in this vacant state before everything goes in. It is preservation in the making, people!!!!

Noon – 1:30pm = We can wander over to Delaware Park which is our centerpiece in the parks and parkway systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. We will also see the Albright Knox Art Gallery, the Buffalo History Museum and the Burchfield Penney Art Gallery on our walk around the park!

1:30pm – BYE BYE!!!