Sentences with phrase «public access to the waterfront»

The good news, Gioia says, is the NFTA, the City and Erie Canal Harbor Corporation agree the long vacant property needs to be in the hands of an organization focused on providing public access to the waterfront.

At planning workshops over the last six months, we engaged over 1,000 residents and stakeholders in lively conversations focused on three major challenges: A pressing need for affordable housing, limited public access to the waterfront, and a shortage of economic opportunities.

In addition to offering a variety of food options at different price points, Portside Pier will increase public access to the waterfront with a second level viewing deck, a second level perimeter walkway along the water's edge and an extended dock and dine to accommodate up to twelve vessels.

That development has a lot in common with the Collingwood site — it reopened public access to the waterfront by redeveloping an old industrial site, and connected the new community to the existing commercial section of Port Credit.

As for what would follow any cleanup, most candidates envision a mix of business, industrial and residential use that conforms to the feel of the neighborhood and provides some public access to the waterfront.

They said the development corporation's proposal lacks broad public support and threw their support behind a plan that scales back residential and commercial development in favor of more green space and public access to the waterfront.