Infrastructure

Pier55

Meatpacking District’s Pier55 Awaiting Final Approvals, Landscaping Tweaked

11:00 am on June 5, 2015 By Reid Wilson

While the proposed park off the Meatpacking District, dubbed Pier55, waits for the Army Corps of Engineers and State Department’s approval, the project’s landscape architecture firm Mathews Nielsen has made small tweaks to the design. The park’s highest elevation has been lowered to 62 feet, according to Curbed, and vegetation will be very diverse. An amphitheater will be located near the back, and federal funds have been allotted for the park’s 13th Street pedestrian bridge. Construction is expected to begin in 2016.

Dryline

Planning Begins for Bjarke Ingels-Designed “Dryline” Flood Protection

5:00 pm on May 26, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Plans for protecting Manhattan against floods are inching forward. Curbed reports the first phase of the Dryline, a landscaped park area along the waterfront stretching from West 23rd Street (in West Chelsea) to Montgomery Street (on the Lower East Side), are in the surveying phase. The Dryline would eventually continue into Midtown on both sides and is estimated to cost $1 billion.

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