ERIE | Development Projects Thread

[pj3000]

Well... leave it to Scott Enterprises to cheese and cheapen it up.

Most interesting to me is the proposed location... so if the tower is to be built adjacent to the library/smokestack, and the line crosses Front Street, and the landing spot is next to where the beer garden is... well, that tells me that ain't no 2nd hotel gettin' built!

Zipline, miniature golf course planned for Erie's east bayfront

https://www.goerie.com/story/news/local/...-zipline-mini-golf-bayfront/65345629007/

Scott Enterprises wants to bring a new zipline — which would cross over East Front Street and offer riders elevated views of Presque Isle Bay — to its Harbor Place complex on the city’s east bayfront.

The Soaring Eagle zipline, which would descend from a 130-foot tower located near the Bayfront Parkway, is one of two major new amenities Scott Enterprises plans for the Harbor Place property, which includes the Hampton Inn & Suites at 130 E. Front St.

The company also plans a new landscaped miniature golf course on the northern end of the Harbor Place property, which is part of a $150 million, multiyear development.

Scott said the zipline's exact location on the Harbor Place property could change slightly.

Scott Enterprises must obtain an aerial easement from the city because the zipline would travel over Front Street. Easements allow businesses to encroach upon a portion of the public sidewalk or the public right-of-way.

Additionally, a height variance would be required under city zoning rules because the zipline tower would be roughly 130 feet high.

Landing location of proposed zipline:


Sanford, who is helping Scott Enterprises develop both projects, said according to initial plans the 500-foot-long bayfront zipline would load riders from a 25-foot platform at the northern end of the Harbor Place property, near Oliver’s Beer Garden, and “pull backwards up to the high point, then release them and come back down.

Preliminary plans call for the 130-foot-high zipline tower to be erected at the southern end of the Harbor Place property, adjacent to the Blasco Library and near the 200-foot smokestack, built in 1917, that was once part of a coal-burning Penelec plant.

The miniature golf course, located near the water’s edge, would have “a nautical theme” and be heavily landscaped, with a new ticket booth/clubhouse.

Nearby surface parking lots would also be expanded to accommodate both projects, Sanford said.