Rebirth
In the late 1990s, public authorities began showing an interest in reviving Buffalo’s Erie Canal heritage. Initially, plans called for re-creating some buried elements of the Canal. However a public outcry, with pressure from citizens’ groups and the local media, convinced the planners to excavate and restore actual portions of the district, including the Commercial Slip.
Completed in 2008, Phase 2 of inner harbor plan laid out by the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation consisted of:
- A re-watered navigable Commercial Slip in alignment with the original Commercial Slip.
- A towpath/walkway on the west and east sides of the Commercial Slip.
- Construction of a bowstring truss bridge.
- Commercial Street reconstructed and made available for service and emergency access.
- Steamboat Hotel and Lloyd Street ruins uncovered and preserved as an archeological site with a combination hard and grass surface.
- Site of the former Union Block as an interpreted site with a grassy, sloped lawn.
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