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:

Get ready to putt putt into a grain elevator.

$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/ 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!

guaranty — Rumor has it that we may get inside the Guaranty 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

13116120_1613173765570022_2303084688223816044_o — Sawtooth + Brewery = Awesome

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!!!

Buffalo… home of the chicken wing, lake effect snow and the grain elevator. Won’t you come explore the Queen City with us?

Here is a sneak preview of what is happening in Buffalo, NY on July 15, 16 & 17th! Everything is free unless noted, but don’t forget to register for the weekend.

Friday, July 15th.

Who says we can’t party inside a vacant industrial grain elevator? Join us at 7:30pm at the Agway located at 1100 Niagara Street on Buffalo’s West Side along the infamous buffalo belt line and with epic views of Lake Erie. A tour kicks off at 8:15pm sharp… bring a flashlight! Kegs of local beer and pizza and wings will be provided, too. BYOB is not required but always appreciated.

Saturday, July 16th.

Shouldn’t every morning start with fresh locally made bagels and coffee and a tour of the largest concentration of Grain Elevators in the World? Join us at 9am sharp at Silo City at 87 Childs street. Swannie Jim will be on hand to provide information as we wander in and around these industrial gentle giants!

Late Morning / Lunch : Join us at 11:30am in front of City Hall for a tour of downtown Buffalo featuring several iconic buildings including the Guaranty Building by Sullivan, the Ellicott Square Building by Ellicott and our stunning art deco City Hall. Lunch will be at Expo (Buy your own), Buffalo’s newest downtown hipster lunch spot.

Our afternoon will be spent in the historic Hydraulics neighborhood OOOing over the last remaining corner of the iconic FLW administrating building, drinking pints of locally made beer at the Hydraulic Hearth and putt-putt-ing on the smallest golf course in the rust belt – Larkin Links! We’re serious, you can hit a ball into a giant heart bomb, a grain elevator and Ellicott’s historic radial street system he made for Buffalo! (716 Swan Street – More on this event soon!)

Saturday evening is TBD. It will likely be pretty crazy since it is Bernice’s 30th birthday and BYP is hosting…. so… yeah! Rumor is an old basement club or perhaps a rooftop party. Stay tuned!

Sunday, July 17th.

Sunday morning will be magical – breakfast on the Olmsted-designed front lawn and a tour of the Richardson Complex!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a huge win for RBCoYP, they rarely do tours these days so it is ultra special. Designed by H.H. Richardson, the old psych ward is now being restored and renovated into a boutique hotel, an architecture museum and more. 9am breakfast / 10am tour – $15 for the tour the day of.

After the tour, we will likely wander over to the Albright Knox Art Gallery (world renowned for our Contemporary Art Collection, including Andy Warhol!) and check out Delaware Park, an Olmsted Designed Park and Parkway system!

If you have any energy left, this would be the time to check out Niagara Falls, canalside, central terminal and the other spots that we didn’t cover!

!!!!LOGISTICS!!!!

SLEEPING: If you need a place to crash, email bypteam@gmail.com ASAP or Bernice has kindly opened her vacant lot and back yard next to her house for tents… there is a shower inside the house!

TRAVELING: Expect to drive around to these places… you can also bike pretty easily if you bring your bike. We do have a bike sharing program which will be launching soon but until then, you’d have to bring one or rent. WE DO NOT HAVE UBER OR LYFT.

PACKING LIST: Blanket for breakfast on the lawn, flashlight, a winter jacket (half kidding but it can get cold here!), shoes to adventure in and snacks. Tent if you feel like camping.

See you in one month! #buffalove #rustbelttakeover #buffalony

RBCoYP!

Rust Belt Coalition of Young Preservationists!

Category: Buffalo & Buffalove

Buffalove or bust, baby! Join us July 15 – 17th in Buffalo, NY!

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

Buffa-WHAT? Sneak Preview for July 15, 16 & 17th in Buffalo, NY!

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