People, tonight you have an amazing opportunity to help design Hoboken's future resiliency park at 15th and Garden!
Please see Mayor Bhalla's invitation below, with the three proposed schemes: Ridge, Meadow, and Bloom.
Which one do you like best?
I'm partial to the Bloom scheme, myself. I love its changes in elevation, and seems to bring more trees into the park interior. I hope every inch is inhabitable... no gardens to stare at. I see kids climbing up and down that terraced lawn... also hope there is plenty of seating in that scheme.
See what you think!
INVITATION FROM THE MAYOR
Dear Hoboken Community,
As a waterfront community, Hoboken is at the front lines of climate change and its consequences, including rising sea levels and more frequent storms. Fortunately, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity through our $230 million Rebuild by Design project, which will play a critical role in reducing our flood risk.
As a part of Rebuild by Design, a new and expanded Harborside Park (at 15th and Garden) will be constructed. This new park will expand our existing waterfront park and add two additional acres of open space, with above ground flood infrastructure to protect from storm surge.
The park's open space amenities and elevated features will fit in with a natural landscape of the new park, preventing storm surge from reaching our streets. This will be one of the first parks in the country to combine a natural park with innovative above ground flood infrastructure to protect from coastal flooding (our "parks as defense" strategy).
I’m pleased to share with you the three proposed concepts for the new Harborside Park:
I invite you to join us at a public meeting today (Thursday) at 7 pm at Elysian Charter School (1460 Garden Street) to provide feedback on these three designs, which will help us make a final decision on what the park will eventually look like.
If you can’t make it, please feel free to email me your thoughts and suggestions. Finally, thank you to Governor Murphy and his administration, as well as former Mayor Dawn Zimmer and the citizen’s advisory group for helping us follow through on our Rebuild by Design project.
Best,
Ravi
I attended the RBD community meeting at the multi service center Tuesday night. The idea isn't to pick the design you like best - it's to let the design team know which elements of each design you find most appealing. The team will then use that input to create two new designs- each of which will be a hybrid drawn from the favored elements of these three designs based on public input.
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing project for Hoboken that exists thanks to the "rantings of the lunatic Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer" (quote from Chris Christie's book).
It is gratifying to see these plans getting closer to being real. It was almost twenty years ago when Hoboken park advocates stopped the construction of two, twenty story towers at 1600 Park Avenue which became the two acre soccer field that will be connected to the new waterfront park. They are welcome humanizing spaces in what has become canyon of massive bulky high rise buildings.
ReplyDeleteThere were no bad options presented and when completed this will be an amazing space.