Why is Upstate NY so creative ?

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Upstate lineage Born in Binghamton 183-5 Water Street. Why is Upstate NY so creative ?. March 2009. Tech Works! will be a center that:. Preserves the pioneering technologies and enterprises of New York's Southern Tier. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Why is

Upstate

NY

so

creative

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Upstate lineage

Born in Binghamton 183-5 Water Street

March 2009

Preserves the pioneering technologies and enterprises of New York's Southern Tier.

Engages visitors in understanding the regional advances in technology that enhance the quality of life throughout the world

Educates visitors on the individuals, resources, and cultures that gave rise to the rich heritage in innovation in our region.

Inspires visitors, students, teachers, the workforce, and the com-munity at large to continue to innovate for economic growth.

Tech Works!will be a

center that:

CT&I is a 16 year old not for profit, who since 2003 has a mission to Document and present in context the inventions and industrial innovations of NY’s Southern Tier.

Board of Directors

Erik Antonsson, Prof, Mechanical Engineering, CaltechPaul Ceruzzi, Nat'l Air and Space Museum, Washington, DCFarouk El-Baz, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston UniversityChuck Goodwin, Exec. Dir., NYS Technology Educators AssnJohn Grady, retired Architect & Exhibit Designer, NYC Stan Hayes, retired Apollo Pgm Manager, Link AviationMark Kriebel, President, Arranged Sound, Johnson CityDon Seraphim, IBM Fellow, retired, Vestal, NYEmily Wade, Museum Institute for Teaching Science, BostonRoger Westgate, Watson School of Engineering, BU

In MemoriamHerbert Griffith, retired CEO, ITS Communications Corp., Endicott, NY & Arthur Rosenblatt, NYC, recipient, 1998 AIA Thomas Jefferson Award, members of CT&I Board at the time of their deaths, 11/04 & 1/05 respectively.

2010-11 1,000+ visitors to behind the scenes tours 2011-12 TechWorks! design - repairs - fundraising 2012 1st fl Renovation - New South Entrance ~ 40% of 1st floor code compliant Fall 2012 Install IBM Endicott collection - 2nd Fl 4,000 sf 2013-14 1st fl Exhibits 10,000 sf 2015-16 Out of this World Technology exhibit, 5,000 sf Visible Access Artifacts/Archives to 2nd Floor + ? years New North Building for Shuttle Simulator

Tech Works!notionaltimeline

Chenango River Bike &PedestrianTrail

Trolley Barn

Riverwalk Hotel

Tech Works!

Rod Serling’sfather’s market 1930s

Interstate Access

ARTS DISTRICT

Intermodal Station

Series A Site Plan approved by Zoning and Planning Commission Approvals August 2011

321 Water Street, Binghamton, NY - Fall 2009 Two story brick bldg (1912); One story brick addition (1946); Metal addition (1972)

Replace one story addition (SW corner) with at-grade entrance, glass curtain wall, solar thermal panels, metal sunscreens as needed Retain brick stairwell as fire exit from second floor (right center) Glass-in porch (SE corner) for kinetic exhibit & giant video screen Stucco & solar ivy on E facade to visually unify construction eras.

Existing south façade

Proposed south facade

Preliminary Concept Sketch Bucher Borges Group - 9/

2011

Final Phase - Replace metal north addition with Shuttle Simulator under glass

First Phase - Certificate of Occupancy, handful of visitor experiences

Second Phase - Exhibits, Garden of Ideas, Sculpture added as funding permits

SE Corner Porch - Kinetic exhibit of manufacturing processes temporary display to change over time, e.g., Pick & place electronic components (Universal) Carroll Press printing punch cards (IBM) Bending "bill till holders" (E H Titchener) Moving pkgs (Binghamton Materials Handling, Raymond) etc.

Imagination Zone - Entrance Experiencethat expands the mind &points the way to other experiences.

All visitors useinside rampup to mainLevel.

Hall of Enterprise

Stories and artifacts showcasing pioneeringadvances by inventors & Southern Tier companies

Good things come in small packages

IBM 1440 System – released 1961, to be restored by CT&I 2010-2011

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1440.html

Dance of the Photons

Final Phase - Replace metal Butler Building withShuttle Simulator under glass

First Phase - Rehab 4,000 sf of 2nd floor for IBM Endicott collection

Second Phase - Rehab remainder of 2nd Floor as archives, offices, collection management, terrace and café with river views

IBM PLANT # 1

Past,

Present

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Future

Explore the Power of “THINK”

Request a reservations at least one week in advance at www.ctandi.org

Tours the last Saturday afternoon of the month,plus group tours on request

SecondFloor

4,000 sffor

Visible Access

& guidedtours of

IBM PLANT # 1

Collection

Candidate for replacement with modern structure to accommodateNASA's Shuttle Simulator and Raymond side loader for visitor accessIn the interim, Hardwiring our Innovative Legacy interactive muralsBU-SOM Pricewaterhouse Cooper Scholars proposed project.

Interactive murals – technology history

NASA Shuttle SimulatorUnder Glass

Visitors ride aRaymond Side-loader to cockpit

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Rehab Cost Exhibit Cost Soft Costs + Endowment

$ per # visitors Visitor Jobs

visitor per year spending generated

Residents 23,272

$ @ TechWorks! $10 $232,720 9 FT, 6 PT

Day Trip visitors 22,764

$ @ TechWorks! $10 $227,640 9 FT, 6 PT

$ in community $45 $1,024,380 25

Overnight visitors 25,252

$ @ TechWorks! $10 $252,520 9 FT, 6 PT

$ in community $169 $4,267,588 75

Annual Totals 71,288

TechWorks! revenue $712,880 9 FT, 6 PT

$ spent in community $5,291,968 100

$6,004,848 112 jobs

Data Source

2011 movie $, Greater

Binghamton CVB - 2011

Consult Econ Market Potential

Study, 2006

Consult Econ Study, 2006; NYS Dept. of Labor, 2011

TechWorks! Economic Impact

Business Day• Tourism is the 7th largest private sector employer in New York State on the basis of direct tourism employment. (Comparisons are with 2009 industry employment, BLS.)

Rank Industry 2009 BLS1    Health care and social assistance 1,281 2    Professional and business services 1,096 3    Retail trade 861 4    Finance and insurance 498 5 Food services and drinking places 493 6    Manufacturing 477 7 Tourism 455 8    Administrative and waste services 404 9    Educational services 385

10    Wholesale trade 331 11 Construction 324 12    Transportation and utilities 264 13    Information 254 14    Real estate and rental and leasing 180

Employment Ranking

Moving Display - SE Porch - Glass enclosure

Programs & Rotating Exhibits

Space for film series,

lectures,& specialevents.

Connecting Big Ideas - Tile Room

A. Good things come in small packages Miniaturization of electronics & the products made possible by same. B. Visual Systems - collimation of light LEM visual system, Night vision goggles, lenses, future Virtual Reality

In between

Multiple invention process kiosks

Endicott – IBM Plant # 1

IBM PLANT # 1

Past,

Present

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&

Future

The History & Heritage Center showcases innovations that mattered for innovators who will matter.

NASA – TN D 7112 – Apollo Experience Report Simulation of Manned Space Flight for Crew Training

In 1929, Edwin Link, Jr. developed the concept of a flight trainer,

which was patented in 1931. Legend has it he was having lunch

sitting on an organ bellows, and thought – “this feels like flying.”

Ben Lawless, Eisterhold Associates, CT&I Museum Master Plan (2007)

Northern stretch of 300’ Flood Wall along western property line

Southern Tier Ideashed

Addresses grade difference, makingexterior access ramp unnecessary

Demo 1 story SE corner addition, lowceilinged rooms, spalling concrete

Curtain wall, glass w/ pierced metal sunscreen &/or solar thermal panels

Glassed in cube at SE corner - Kinetic Entry Exhibit

New South Accessible Entrance & Foyer