STALLED PROJECTS

Still standing on Chicago Street in Buffalo NY, is the E. & B. Holmes Machinery Company Building. This historic factory, known as The Cooperage, revolutionized the barrel making industry with designs and machinery for mass producing barrels. The company operated from 1840 until 2002.

The second image is the collage I made from a discarded ancestor photo plus photos taken on Chicago Street. I combined the photo of the soldiers with the factory because they looked like they might have worked there when they returned from the war. The finished collage is framed with recycled flooring. 

There is actually a plan to restore the building into ‘River Lofts Buffalo’ as shown in this architectural rendering.  Apparently the American Institute of Architects has a Stalled Projects Database where architects, developers, and project owners can connect with investors and re-start projects that make sense but are stalled due to lack of financing.  Perhaps, with all the new development close by, the Cooperage will come to life again.  Are you the person who can get this project unstalled?  Contact http://www.clintonbrowncompany.com