January 2021
On The Wrong Side of History- A Special GreenWatch Report

Times Beach Nature Preserve is located on Buffalo's Outer Harbor. Much of the surrounding land is owned by the New York State agency, the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation. For years this development corporation, a subsidiary of Empire State Development has advocated for private development on Buffalo's Outer Harbor including property directly adjacent to the nature preserve. The development corporation considers wildlands including nearby grasslands, woodlands, and scrub lands as "underdeveloped wasteland." The Friends of Times Beach and the Our Outer Harbor Coalition have taken a position against this because we believe that creating privatized condo communities on public land will do irreparable harm to the Nature Preserve and to the valuable habitat that we find throughout the outer harbor.  Now there are new plans to develop sites on the Outer Harbor for private residential communities including the marina directly across Fuhrmann Blvd from Times Beach.  Download the PDF here for a special report.