Creating a world class destination: Riverworks invests millions into entertainment space

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Riverworks is gearing up for summertime and producing a big investment in their amusement park and event space.

When it nonetheless doesn’t feel like summer months in Western New York, the area is just weeks absent from festivals, pleasurable and excitement. The outdoor routines at Riverworks will very likely open in about a thirty day period and the occasion heart hopes to make the place even more substantial and superior than in advance of, bringing in website visitors from around and significantly.

“If you did not know the zip code, you wouldn’t know you ended up in Buffalo,” Monthly bill Casale, typical supervisor of Pearl Avenue Attributes, said. “It’s critical to us to create a world class place. We’re hoping we give men and women even more of a explanation to appear to Western New York and keep for far more than a single working day and go to the Falls. Ultimately right here in Buffalo there is a large amount extra to do.”

The virtually $3 million expense into the riverfront function place will consist of a new banquet area, seem technique for live shows, digital reality middle, tiki bar close to the out of doors biergarten and a new trip named “The Jawz Fall Tower.” The journey will exchange the shorter fall ride that is at present in the amusement park area.

With the winter season period hopefully in the rearview mirror, Riverworks is transitioning to summertime functions, getting ready for extra occasions, guests and even summer time camps for kids.

“Now it is time to flip and get the summer time activities heading. It’s a extremely rapid system and we have a quite shorter window to do that. The good news is we’re heading to get some good temperature next week to set some patio home furniture out, finding everything cleaned up,” Casale continued.

Casale added that Riverworks will only proceed to increase as they hope to add a lot more enjoyment to this up-and-coming space of Buffalo. So considerably, $40 million has been invested into the home and they are not finished nonetheless.

“We are in the teeth of a incredibly rough economic predicament coming out of COVID, we struggled. We ended up shutdown for about 6 months out of that 12 months, 2020. We are nevertheless rebounding, but we consider it is crucial to continue to reinvest create possibilities, and generate a lot more things to do for when individuals not only appear to Buffalo but also Riverworks,” Casale discussed.

Riverworks closed the ice rink on Thursday. The concentrate will change to summer time packages, situations and routines. The Jawz Fall Tower journey will ideally be up and running by Memorial Working day. The Ferris wheel will be open up by Mother’s Working day. Each openings are issue to weather delays.