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Aim for the Sky |
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Type:
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ideas
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Registration Deadline:
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June 28, 2019
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Submission Deadline:
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August 26, 2019
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Open to:
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All
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Entry Fee:
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Prizes will be awarded to the top three submissions in the amounts of $100,000 [top idea], $50,000 [first runner-up], and $25,000 [second runner-up].
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Jury:
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A jury convened by Governor Cuomo
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s challenge to reimagine the Buffalo Skyway Corridor is a competition to define a clear vision for the City of Buffalo’s waterfront, helping inform the direction for investment in placemaking and economic development opportunities.
The Skyway, a four-lane limited access expressway, extends four miles along the City’s Lake Erie waterfront, and carries almost 40,000 trips per day of commuter traffic as part of the regional highway system. Completed in 1953, the Skyway was originally designed to connect truck traffic from multiple large and small factory complexes and the Port of Buffalo to the then-fledgling interstate highway system.
Yet with the closings of the region’s major steel plants in the 1980s and changing land uses along the corridor from heavy manufacturing to recreation, it has evolved to serve more as commuting corridor to the city’s southern suburbs. https://esd.ny.gov/skyway
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