Imagine strolling through Downtown Utica. Starting with a meal in the Varick Street Brewery District and then make your way towards the Adirondack Bank Center for a hockey game...
Your group just had lunch on Varick Street. Now you are at our Brewery for a tour. After this, you have mapped-out a 3/4-mile stroll to catch a hockey game. Here's the possible stops that the Wynn-BUD Initiative envisions...
Start with a breakfast or lunch on Varick Street, then take-in the Brewery Tour & Tap Room. Dip into the Adirondack Distilling Company to compare and contrasted beer-making with whiskey production. Next, your group could stop into a authentic Irish Pub and or checkout their cultural museum.
Okay, those activities are all on Varick Street, but under the current plan making your way to the Adirondack Bank Center for hockey means nothing but a walk past a hospital. However, the Wynn-BUD vision changes that...
Next it is into a German-style pub on Columbia Street, checkout their cultural center in the 1894 Utica Turn Verein Hall. Now you walk to an exhibit to see artifacts, working models, and purchase keepsakes of Utica's Erie and Chennago Canals. Imagine back in time as you view a life-sized mural of a bridge, which once stretched over the Erie Canal at Broadway. Stroll a little further on an orginal Erie Canal cobblestone street, Carton Lane, (Need a rental car? You're passing by Express Car Rental) then drop into the Erie Canal Inn; book a room or visit the gift shop and or basement cafe. There you'll find tour information and or tips for getting on the water via the Utica Harbor and or Barge Canal. Now you are ready for a recreation, within an original building owned by furnace inventor "John Carton")", where you'll witness furnace and boiler-making forging and assembly operations. It's now time to skirt-by The Wynn Hospital via another stretch of Carton Lane, through a park, and then over an elevated walkway to the Adirondack Bank Center.
We're not opposing The Wynn Hospital, just don't bulldoze more of Downtown Utica's Historic Columbia-Lafayette Neighborhood..., help inact the Wynn-BUD Initiative.
