On Tuesday, State Sen. Tim Kennedy, Rep. Brian Higgins and Riverline Director Jeff Lebsack of the Western New York Land Conservancy announced $225,000 in funding from New York State for
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WBFO s Nick Lippa talks with Paul Peters, Principal at Hood Design Studio, the group behind The Riverline Project.
Nick Lippa: Tell me a little bit about your involvement with the Western New York Land Conservancy and your relationship so far with the Riverline Project.
PP: Yeah, we re the design team, which is led by W Architecture out of New York (Brooklyn). We are a landscape architecture and public art practice, based out of Oakland, California. And we work on projects all across the United States. And we are a social art and cultural landscape practice. And so W Architecture put together a team for The Riverline in Buffalo consisting of themselves as the lead, and architect, as the landscape architect, and then greenshield ecology as well as an ecologist. And we ve just started the project. It s in the pre-design phase. So we ve begun to work with the Land Conservancy, as well as began to do some initial community engagement and research and are beginning to develop a s