Take Another Look Buffalo NY

Backgrounder:

 

All Buffalonians are invited to bring the family and friends who come to town to celebrate Thanksgiving to our fabulous City Hall on Saturday, November 28th from 4:00-7:00pm to Take Another Look at Buffalo and celebrate the resurgence. Cranes on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. HARBORCENTER. Canalside and the re-watered canals. Larkinville. RiverWorks. Solar City. The Outer Harbor. There is so much progress to see.

 

And it is all visible from the City Hall Observation Decks on both the 25th and the 28th floors. But Take Another Look offers additional views of Buffalo, as well.

 

In the vaulted Lobby, the Take a Taste of Buffalo will feature appetizers from our new downtown eateries, Take a Sip of Buffalo will showcase the growing number of craft beers and local wines, the BuffaLove Fair will offer Buffalo-themed gifts designed to remind all of home, Get to Know Buffalo information tables will feature career opportunities and information about our city’s many successes, and Preservation Buffalo Niagara docents will offer complimentary 15-minute mini-tours of the magnificent building itself. Katie and Ed, WKBW-TV on-air personalities, will keep the event moving as emcees in this beautiful space.

 

Then & Now Buffalo videos clearly illustrating our resurgent Buffalo will be screened in the elegant Council Chambers on the 13th floor, and guests can play the Name that Place quiz, with prizes for winners. There will also be What I Love About Buffalo video story-telling by guests, audio interviews as part of the NPR Story Corps The Great Thanksgiving Listen that will be posted locally and archived in the American FolkLife Center at the Library of Congress, and a What I Love About Buffalo post-it note opportunity on the 13th floor.

 

Aspire Technology Today’s award-winning Buffalo photographs will be exhibited in the 25th floor handicap-access Windows on Buffalo room, as will art by PS 84 students, with panoramic views of the city.

 

Many will Take Another Look from the 28th floor Observation Deck, where coffee and desserts will represent the sweet resurgence seen below. Docent-led 15-minute aerial tours of Buffalo from both the 25th and the 28th floor Observation Decks will be available compliments of Explore Buffalo.

 

All guests are welcome to enjoy the beautiful vistas and the sun setting over Lake Erie.

 

The Buffalo Common Council is once again the Presenting Sponsor of this unique event. Nearly 1,000 guests attended Take Another Look in 2014. We expect to double this number in 2015.

 

 

Media Sponsors and coverage:

•The Buffalo News will provide advertisements, significant play in the digital edition, Buffalo.com coverage, Gusto feature and will have a table in City Hall to promote their News Neediest initiative .

•WKBW-TV will do an interview on the City Hall Observation Decks (with permission) prior to the event and air this, air 15 and 30 sec promos, as well as host an AM Buffalo spot and provide the emcees for this event.

•Entercom radio will run promotional PSAs, place the event on all web sites and calendars, and schedule multiple interviews on a variety of talk shows reaching a broad demographic

 

These media sponsors, plus interviews on multiple radio programs, feature articles in most area newspapers, and listings in all area event calendars, ensure high visibility. Television, radio and newspaper coverage prior to the event is already scheduled, as is coverage of the event itself.

 

Partner Organizations:

•Buffalo Place will include Take Another Look as part of its Shop Small Saturday event.

•The Buffalo Public Schools will invite all BPS families to attend and provide both art and music.

•Buffalo State College has connected nearly a dozen students to the project, many as part of the Service Learning Center’s effort to engage students in the community.

•The World’s Largest Disco, walking distance from Buffalo City Hall, will promote Take Another Look as the perfect Disco pre-party.

•Explore Buffalo will provide docents for complimentary 15-minute aerial tours of Buffalo from the 25th and the 28th floor Observation decks, and promote this event.

•Preservation Buffalo Niagara will provide complimentary 15-minute tours of City Hall.

•The Public will provide Then & Now Google Streetview photographs to show in Council Chambers, providing the basis for the Name That Place quiz.

•Multiple downtown restaurants will provide appetizers for the Take A Taste of Buffalo in the Lobby

•Multiple craft brewers will contribute local brews for Take a Sip of Buffalo in the Lobby.

•Arrowhead Spring Winery will contribute wines for Take a Sip of Buffalo in the Lobby.

•The Food Bank of WNY, the Bread of Heaven food truck, and the News Neediest gifts for children will benefit from this event.

 

Tickets are just $10 in advance ($15 at the door). All participants who bring a non-perishable food item and/or a gift for a disadvantaged child will receive an immediate $5 discount at the door.

 

Let’s showcase Buffalo for those of us who choose to live here, as well as for those who do not but wish they did. Some of those who attend Take Another Look may be inspired to find a way to come home, others may decide to invest in their home town from wherever they now reside. All will be better Buffalo ambassadors once they Take Another Look at Buffalo.

 

That is Buffalo By Choice’s mission, what we attempt to accomplish with our Citybration year-round campaign featuring a weekly e-newsletter to more than 9,000 avid subscribers, and Buffy, our iconic white buffalo with the huge red hearts that has come to symbolize Buffalo’s resurgence at hundreds of events and locations. We address retention and attraction; we are helping to build Buffalo.

 

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