Syracuse Competition to Close the Gaps

The City of Syracuse and Town of Dewitt are jointly-sponsoring Elevating Erie, an ideas competition seeking proposals from throughout the world to reposition the four-mile Erie Boulevard East corridor between the Town of Dewitt and Downtown Syracuse as a biodiverse, multi-modal urban transit corridor. Elevating Erie is also asking all community members to share their thoughts on the following questions: What is our new Erie Canal? What is appropriate, transformative, innovative, bold, and uniquely Syracuse?

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“We applaud the City of Syracuse and the Town of Dewitt for thinking big and daring all of us to do so too. We look forward to a wealth of stimulating ideas that will result in a vibrant recreational and multi-use corridor that will close the gap in the Erie Canalway Trail between Dewitt and Downtown Syracuse. We have no doubt that Elevating Erie will revitalize public, professional, and governmental interest in and reconnect the community to the Canalway Corridor in a manner that celebrates environmental stewardship and enhances economic competitiveness,” said Fran Gotcsik, PTNY’s Director of Programs and Policy, and a member of the selection jury.

Elevating Erie is supported in part with funding from the New York State Department of State and the Central New York Community Foundation.The deadline for proposal submissions is December 22, 2015. Finalists will be included in an exhibition opening in the Spring of 2016 at the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse and included in a forthcoming publication on the competition.



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