Bass Pro Says No to Buffalo
Bass Pro is backing out of Buffalo.
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation was notified by Bass Pro President Jim Hagel today that they would be withdrawing from further consideration of Buffalo's waterfront development.
Congressman Brian Higgins who issued an ultimatum to Bass Pro last week issued the following statement:
"Western New Yorkers have waited fifty years for waterfront development to happen and we aren't waiting anymore. After nearly a decade of talk there comes a point when this community should expect our business partners to either sign on the dotted line or we as a community must again stand up for ourselves and demand we move forward.
“I will be asking Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation to develop a revised plan with emphasis on public infrastructure that will help us to reach our full waterfront potential. Thanks to our hard work over the last several years we have over $100 million in NYPA funding immediately available to implement that plan.
“The potential for a great Buffalo waterfront is emerging; we know it and we see it with the increased crowds at the Inner and Outer Harbor today. The last nine years of limbo is unreasonable and unfortunate but today, with nothing holding us back, we continue the momentum we already see along the water’s edge.”
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny27_higgins/073010_WaterfrontDevelopment.shtml
The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation was notified by Bass Pro President Jim Hagel today that they would be withdrawing from further consideration of Buffalo's waterfront development.
Congressman Brian Higgins who issued an ultimatum to Bass Pro last week issued the following statement:
"Western New Yorkers have waited fifty years for waterfront development to happen and we aren't waiting anymore. After nearly a decade of talk there comes a point when this community should expect our business partners to either sign on the dotted line or we as a community must again stand up for ourselves and demand we move forward.
“I will be asking Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation to develop a revised plan with emphasis on public infrastructure that will help us to reach our full waterfront potential. Thanks to our hard work over the last several years we have over $100 million in NYPA funding immediately available to implement that plan.
“The potential for a great Buffalo waterfront is emerging; we know it and we see it with the increased crowds at the Inner and Outer Harbor today. The last nine years of limbo is unreasonable and unfortunate but today, with nothing holding us back, we continue the momentum we already see along the water’s edge.”
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny27_higgins/073010_WaterfrontDevelopment.shtml
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