Tucker Looks To Create A Winter Destination
While attending the waterfront BoomDays event last evening, I ran into Dug's Dive Restaurant owner, Tucker Curtain. Tucker told me that this was hopefully going to be the last time Buffalonians would be activity-less at this part of the Outer Harbor during the wintertime. "I'm planning on turning this part of the lake intto a destination area for winter activities," he told me. "I want this to be a place where people will come to skate, ice boat and curl. I've already been looking into insurance and permits, and if all goes well this will be a fun place to be all year 'round."
The fact that Tucker opened up Dug's Dive for BoomDays activities is just the start of his push to bring people to the lake during the colder season. BoomDays, an event that grows bigger and bigger every year, already draws people to the restaurant for, shall we say, celebratory reasons. Why not celebrate every weekend? Or every day for that matter? If you offer all of these activities and give people a place to warm up, eat food, and drink... duh?
And if you incorporate ice boating, then you've brought a spectator event to the waterfront as well. People have been iceboating on the Canadian side for years.
Dug's Dive 1111 Fuhrmann Blvd Buffalo, NY 14203 (716) 821-9600
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AvaRouge
Nah- makes too much sense and doesn't cost enough.
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gaustad
Great Idea....anything to get these people off the couch in the winter
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Dan
With outdoor curling on natural ice, it's very difficult to maintain fast, consistent ice. Still, consider that the first international curling bonspiel was on outdoor ice Buffalo, and that a rock hasn't slid along a sheet in the area for nearly 30 years. It's kind of sad that the last remnant of the Buffalo Curling Club is in Cleveland. (www.imagepup. com/up/EqTg_1206989390_Photo-0008.j pg)
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RisingDamp666
If you lay down a lattice of refrigeration coils under the Lake and keep the compressors running all and night, you just might get the ice to the desired thickness for these events. Money well spent.
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magnum
Good job Tucker, all one needs to do is look at ottawa and their winterlude festival to see what an opportunity balmy buffalo is missing (blamy in comparison to ottawa). In 2007, it set a new attendance record of an estimated 1.6 million visits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterlude
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sbrof
well we don't need to have the quality of indoor arena's we just need a place to have fun, fall down and enjoy ourselves. Part of being outside in the winter and on the city is the unpredictability of it all. Like skating on ponds frozen over in Riverside Park. It is perfect but it sure was fun!
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bison716
Great news, hope it happens!
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tonyarmani
great work tucker - dont give in to any political bureaucracy/laws/unions - like they say at Nike, Just do it.
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Colin
Yes, by all means, violate the law!
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