Work draws to completion on new Lewiston Landing markers

Story and photo by Joshua Maloni
Lewiston Porter Sentinel, September 30, 2006

From left, Dick and Russ Conrad.

Work is scheduled to wrap in the next few days on the new Lewiston Landing markers on the corner of Center and Fourth streets.

Russ Conrad, whose family purchased and donated 6.5 tons of stone from Thruway Builders for the posts, and his uncle, mason Dick Conrad, were putting the finishing touches on the project Wednesday with the help of the Village Department of Public Works.

The development has an inner court, where a flowerbed will be planted, and an outer court, where landscape and mulch will be seeded.

Conrad, who owns Princeton Equity Partners and the building housing the Village Bake Shoppe, wanted to give back to Lewiston, his home for two-and-a-half years. He also wanted to build a permanent structure in honor of his family.

“It’s something that our kids can look at in 30 years and say ‘My dad did that,’ ” he said.

To ensure the markers are, indeed, lasting, Conrad used stone instead of brick – which the former posts were made of.

“It’s more permanent,” he said. “We wanted something that was going to last.”

Conrad plans to use matching stone on the outside of the Village Bake Shoppe at 417 Center St.