Outside Erie

Lots of anger today over City Council’s decision last night to table a plan that would give the city $250,000 in upfront state money and up to $2 million more to help revitalize downtown.
Fellow GlobalErie blogger Jim Berlin (who has invested heavily in the redevelopment of Union Station) has a rant over on Berlin’s Wall.
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The Mercantile building has long stood out as a massive sore thumb on State Street.
The boarded-up windows on the massive building just south of West 12th Street has long been a landmark that you’re leaving the professional stretch of Erie’s downtown and heading into an area full of economic despair.
It’s a nice sign, then, to […]

The renaissance of Griswold Plaza continues this weekend with the unveiling of a historical marker commemorating the life of magician and Erie native Harry Kellar.
Lisa Gensheimer, who is working on a television documentary about Kellar’s life, describes him as the “globe-hopping conjuror who could make things materialize, levitate and disappear.”
At the close of the […]