DMAVA Park and Shoreline Stabilization

Jersey City, NJ

SCAPE recently started the Shore Stabilization Structure, Walkway and DMAVA Park installation with Langan Engineering. This project presents an exciting challenge to merge environmental, historical and recreational issues into a vibrant waterfront park on the Hudson River. New Jersey’s role in the early making of America – epitomized in the movement of goods and cargo from canal boat to ship on the Morris Canal’s Little Basin and the historic migrations of people through nearby Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty – make this section of the Hudson Riverfront an incredibly compelling story that can be highlighted and interpreted through a sensitive preservation approach, a strong landscape design and ecologically based engineering. The opportunities for historic narrative interwoven into the public experience of movement along the walkway, combined with dramatic views to the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan, are significant, and are a driving force in our landscape design, currently on the boards.

Credits:
LANGAN