The replica bowstring bridge is now in place over the rewatered Commercial Slip, just a block and a half from the front door of HSBC Arena.

Can you see the remnants of the foundations in the foreground? This is a special and hallowed place. Here is where America’s commerce and industry met and pushed westward in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a hustle and bustle of ships, grain mills, docks, bawdy houses and residences, and now will enjoy new life as the restored Canal Side Inner Harbor project.

I can’t wait until this is all done. I can’t wait to come down here on a warm summer Buffalo evening… to reflect on the old Buffalo, and to let my spirits soar and imagine what the new Buffalo can become.

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