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Article: The key elements to successful waterfront design.(Special Report: Waterfront)
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- May 28, 2008
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Large-scale waterfront master plans--they are often unveiled with much fanfare and the promise of recapturing land that has fallen into disrepair or that was once occupied by factories churning out their products 24-hours a day. The sad truth about large-scale waterfront master plans, however, is that many never get built. The same "wow" factor that captures the public's imagination and the media's attention for these mega plans can also bring about their demise.
Designers often pay too much attention to the buildings that would occupy the land adjacent to the waterfront and not enough to the waterfront itself. They ignore the surrounding communities in the ...