GingerBread Lane

GingerBread Lane is an ever-evolving holiday display that was established on November 22, 1994 in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, by chef, Jon Lovitch. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/virtualtours/holiday1999/11.htm> The display consists of hundreds of hand-made gingerbread houses and buildings and takes months to complete. ([http://www.marthastewart.com/article/winter-wonderlands-kansas-city-missouri)
Every piece is edible and created with real candy and frosting.
It takes on average 800 man-hours to create the edible villages from scratch. <http://article.wn.com/view/2005/11/23/A_touch_of_frosting_at_Childrens_village/>
Each GingerBread Lane village consists of 5 divisions (boroughs): GumDrop Row, established in 1998, is the oldest mainstay of the village. The second oldest site on the village is EggNog Bay dating back to 1999. With the newer additions being Candy Cane Place, PepperMint Central Park, and Toffee Boulevard.
GingerBread Lane 03-04 & GingerBread Lane 05-06 were both exhibits that you could walk under. With full-size tunnels of gingerbread and candy.
It can take 4 days and around 50 hours to set up the village for the season and is normally on display for around 56 days (8 weeks). Though the largest GingerBread Lane display to-date was in 1999-2000. It was displayed from November 26- January 24. <http://www.thejamescenter.com/Newsletters/James_Center_Holiday_2003.pdf>
In 2010, GingerBread Lane unveiled The MINT (Mass Internal Neighborhood Transit). An underground feature specifically designed for Light Up Night in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. <http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_718312.html>
It has been the focal point of many holiday destinations across the U.S., including Kansas City, Washington, D.C., New York City and Pittsburgh. <http://www.malletin.com/mallnewsletters/39801.html> The villages have been showcased at such venues as the Rockefeller Center in NYC, the Smithsonian Institute of American History in DC and were also featured at the National Children’s Medical Center in D.C. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/virtualtours/holiday1999/12.htm>
<big>To date, GingerBread Lane has used:</big>
-Over 5,300 pounds of gingerbread
-Over 4,000 pounds of royal icing
-Over 1,000 pounds of gumdrops
-Over 12,000 candy canes
-Over 3,500 pounds of candy
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