Slate Belt Heritage Project
Project Introduction to Plan Slate Belt, April 1, 2020 Monthly Meeting
PennPraxis Project Goals Project Outline
1. Heritage-based Placemaking 1. Define Best ProjectOptions
and Economic Development • Review work done todate
• Discuss options with thecommunity 2. Enhancement of the SlateBelt as an Outdoor Recreation 2.Analyze site and project
Destination • Review site constraints andopportunities
• Discuss funding and policy tools with LVPC and Northampton County
• Eliminate projects with feasibilityproblems
3. Visualize site concept for discussion and fundraising
PennPraxis 1. Successful projects 2. Ideas for the Slate Belt 3. Your Ideas, Questions and Feedback
PennPraxis Successful projects
PennPraxis Successful projects: National Slate Museum and Dinorwic Quarry, Wales 70,000+ ANNUALVISITORS Llanberis, Wales,UK Population 1,844 Coordinatedsmall improvementsthat add up to somethingsignificant
PennPraxis Successful projects: Snowdonia National Park,Wales, UK 350,000 ANNUALVISITORS Wales, UK Largest Park inWales Cultural andNatural Heritage Assets Includes multiple Slate Quarry Sites 1,497 miles of public footpaths
PennPraxis Successful projects: Snowdonia National Park,Wales, UK 350,000 ANNUALVISITORS Wales, UK LLANDUDNO SLATE TOWNS provide lodging, food, LIVERPOOL MANCHESTER services, entertainment and heritage tours BANGOR BETHESDA
LLANRWST Farming, active quarries, villages, forest,
LLANBERIS BETWS Y CAED trails and former quarries are all part of the national heritagepark
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WREXHAM PENRHTNDEUDRAETH Y BALA
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MAIN ROAD
RAILWAY
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TOURISM DESTINATION
NEWTOWN ABERYSTWYTH 0 20 40 miles PennPraxis Successful projects: Manitoga, Garrison, NewYork, HudsonValley Population 4,225 Former granite quarry remade by a designer has created a major cultural destination. Many projects are funded by large grants from foundations for heritage preservation. Manitoga hosts an array of dance, art and other events that increase visitors and economic benefit to the surrounding area.
PennPraxis Successful projects: West Point Foundry Preserve, Cold Spring, NewYork, HudsonValley Population 1,971 West Point Foundry is a small park and preserve that expresses HudsonValley heritage and helps the town attract a significant number of visitors annually. It is also and everyday amenity to the town and region. Scenic Hudson estimates that Natural and Cultural Heritage generates 1,300 jobs in Putnam Countyalone.
PennPraxis Successful projects: Quarry Garden, Crenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai, China Strong and simple access design allows people to experience the dramatic setting of the quarry and to view its features up close.
PennPraxis Successful projects: Allmannajuvet Zinc Mines, Sauda,Norway Connection to Ryfylke NationalTourist Route and MiningHeritage 5Miles from Sauda Population 4,760
PennPraxis Successful projects: D<rail / National Heritage Corridorridor 282,796 annualvisitors Industrial Heritage, OutdoorRecreation, Mobility Network and Development Stimulus Local amenity and regional connector that creates a destination for nearby cities once it reaches critical mass overtime
https://www.railstotrails.org/trailblog/2018/january/17/pennsylvania-s-dl-trail/
PennPraxis Successful projects: Bethlehem SteelStacks 850,000+ ANNUALVISITORS Industrial and community heritage paired with Arts Quest programming, major economic development and culturalimpact. Many areas and structures left “as-is” while others are transformed.
http://landezine.com/index.php/2017/06/bethlehem-steelstacks-arts-culture-campus-by-wrt/
PennPraxis Cultural Landscape of SlateQuarries as Powerful asSteelStacks
PennPraxis Tourism to theArea: Over 3 MillionVisitors aYear
Sierra Club
Each # symbolmarks the locationof a significantslate heritagefeature that the Penn Historic Preservation research team surveyedand mapped
PennPraxis Tourism to theArea: 842,000 Residents of the LehighValley
WATER GAP
PORTLAND N. BANGOR
E. BANGOR BANGOR PEN ARGYL THE SLATE BELT WIND GAP
MARTINS CREEK
3 cities within 20 to EASTON 30-minute drive of the Slate Belt BETHLEHEM
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PennPraxis Ideas for the Slate Belt
PennPraxis 20172017 Exhibition STUDIO EXHIBITION andDiscussion IN BANGOR
SLATE BELT FUTURES POP-UP EXHIBITION and conversation with the designers FRIDAY, MAY 12 TOLINO VINEYARD 280 Mount Pleasant Road,Bangor
5:00 to 8:00 pm Food, drink, ideas + music by BIG VALLEY BLUEGRASS (cash bar)
MAY 14 - JUNE 11 Exhibition moves to SLATE BELT
HERITAGE CENTER Trail Town Logic designed by Luke vanTol 30 North 1st Street, Bangor RSVP FOR POP-UP Sponsored by: at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ Lehigh Valley Planning Commission slate-belt-futures-pop-up-exhibition- Slate Belt Council of Governments may-12-2017-tickets-33782125246 PennDesign / University of Pennsylvania Ideas for the SlateBelt New Development Helps Pay for a Bangor to East Bangor Park System, JiepingWang
PennPraxis Ideas for the SlateBelt Camping at North Bangor Quarry, LukeVanTol
PennPraxis Ideas for the SlateBelt New Paths, Lighting and Heritage Markers at American Bangor Quarry, Tiffany Gerdes
DYNAMITE BLASTED WALL WIRE SAW CUT WALL
PennPraxis Ideas for the SlateBelt Quarries integrated into a light industrial campus inWind Gap, An Hua Liao
PennPraxis Ideas for the SlateBelt Viewing Platforms toWatch Operations at the Active Dally Quarry in Pen Argyl, Le Xu
PennPraxis Ideas for the SlateBelt Cutting new pathways and platforms into quarry walls using local know-how, Margarida Mota
PennPraxis Transformative Project 1. Heritage-based Placemaking and EconomicDevelopment 2. Enhancement of the Slate Belt as an Outdoor Recreation Destination
QUARRY PROJECT + TRAIL
PennPraxis PennPraxis Ideas, Questions and Feedback
PennPraxis Location Considerations
• Potential to create an anchor destination • Visibility of quarry works and cultural landscape • Addition to character and amenity of the Slate Belt communities • Local interest and importance of the place • Potential for investment andpartners • Quarry can be acquired at reasonable cost • Site can be redeveloped at reasonable cost (not too challenging to make safe) • Proximity to towncenters • Proximity to trails and other area destinations (DelawareWater Gap, etc.) • Central to all or most Slate Belt communities, potential for linkage • Scale and options to phase development of the project
Other considerations? Most importantconsiderations?
PennPraxis What’s next: Project Outline
1. Define Best ProjectOptions
• Review work done todate
• Discuss options with thecommunity
2.Analyze site and project
• Review site constraints andopportunities
• Discuss funding and policy tools with LVPC and Northampton County
• Eliminate projects with feasibilityproblems
3. Visualize site concept for discussion and fundraising
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