This project requires careful planning, design, and implementation to ensure that the park is safe, accessible, and sustainable and that it meets the needs of the surrounding community. The process began with the acquisition of the property in September 2019.

To date, we have completed the following steps:

• Site remediation planning
• Community and Stakeholders Site Walks
• Fundraising
• Historical study, environmental assessment, hazardous abatement, and demolition of three unsafe structures
• Completion of archeological site, wetland, and Natural Diversity Database studies and a commercial market analysis
• Initial site design
• Submitted regulatory permits
• Publish RFQ/RFP for urban waterfront park planner