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<\/p>\nOn February 28, 2022, the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation (CTRC) announced it was awarded a Community Placemaking Grant from the Project for Public Spaces.<\/p>\n
Project for Public Spaces\u2019 Community Placemaking Grants Initiative will transform the Terminal\u2019s Great Lawn from an under-designed, grassy lawn into a highly activated public green space for the sharing of civic experiences. The CTRC will use a community-engaged design process to build resident ownership and investment in the placemaking of the Great Lawn.<\/p>\n
Over the last year the CTRC completed a community-driven Master Plan that is the most in- depth framework for redevelopment ever created. A major pillar of this plan is the reactivation of the Terminal as a Civic Commons, a year-round, regional venue for public events and activities. The early activation of the Great Lawn is the first step in engaging Civic Commons. Placemaking on the Great Lawn will create a welcoming entry to the Buffalo Central Terminal as a place for neighbors and visitors from near and far. The Great Lawn will develop much needed recreational greenspace and strengthen the physical connection of the Terminal to the larger Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood.<\/p>\n
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This coupled with the last year\u2019s announcement of the Broadway-Fillmore Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI)<\/a> will be a big boost not only to the Central Terminal, but the neighborhood. \u201cAnother piece of exciting news for us was Broadway-Fillmore receiving a $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative or DRI award from New York State. The DRI is really exciting because it will use a community-driven process to fund the Central Terminal, the Broadway Market and other catalytic projects in the neighborhood. Funding for the Terminal will be used to create a Civic Commons, both inside and outside the building, for year-round community events and activities,\u201d said Drew Canfield, Associate Director of the CTRC.<\/p>\n The CTRC also completed a Master Plan for the Central Terminal in 2021<\/a>. More from Drew Canfield, \u201cLast year we completed a community-driven Master Plan because it was really important that we develop a shared vision for the future of the Terminal with the community, especially with Broadway-Fillmore. We listened to hundreds of participants who came out to community meetings and focus groups and we worked closely with our Community Advisory Council. The Master Plan gives us a framework to re-establish the Terminal as a vibrant year-round local and regional destination. It leverages the diversity of spaces in the building to support economic and social opportunities for the neighborhood and the region.\u201d The plan is a comprehensive path forward for future the Central Terminal. To read more about the plan, follow this link: https:\/\/www.buffaloterminalplan.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n On February 28, 2022, the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation (CTRC) announced it was awarded a Community Placemaking Grant from the Project for Public Spaces. Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Central Terminal's Great Lawn to come to life","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,58],"class_list":["post-25162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buffalo-central-terminal","tag-ctrc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/great-lawn..jpg?fit=740%2C463&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-6xQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25208,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions\/25208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1050054.jpg?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1\")
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