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Key People: University California Merced, David L. Spaur, Cecd - President/Ceo Merced County Economic Development Corporation (Mcedc), Heather D. Hennagan - Economic Development
Manager Mcedc, Stanley E. Feathers - Interim City Manager For Atwater. Major Initiatives, Programs, Events, And Organizations: Art Hop, Big Valley Arts & Culture Festival, Merced
Kiki Raina Tahiti Fete.(Tahitian Dance And Cultural Festival). Cultural Institutions: Merced Multicultural Arts Center: Main Gallery, Mezzanine, Skylight And White Box Galleries, White Box
Gallery, Arbor Gallery, Courthouse Museum, Playhouse Merced, Lakireddy Auditorium, Castle Air Museum. Funding Sources: Uc Merced, The Economic Development Administration, Merced
Economic Development Corporation.
CLEVELAND
Key People: Mayor Frank Jackson, Steven Litt - Art And Architecture Critic And Advocate, Winner Of 2010 Cleveland Arts Prize For A Democratic Vision Of The Arts. Major Initiatives, Programs, Events, And Organizations: Community Partnership For Arts And Culture, Cleveland Institute Of Art, Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland Arts Prize, Cleveland Artists Foundation, Ohio
Arts Council, Arthouse Inc., Snickerfritz, Gordon Square Arts District: A Collection Of Theaters, Restaurants And Galleries Clustered Around West 65Th Street And Detroit Avenue -- And Its Leaders
Are Being Honored For Having The Vision And Influence To Revitalize A Cleveland Neighborhood Using The Arts As An Economic Engine. Ingenuity Festival, Pop-Up City. Cultural Institutions:
Red Dot Project, Art-Repreneur, Art Collinwood. Funding Sources: The Gund Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, The Enterprise Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts And
Culture: Funds General Operating Support And Project Support. Music, Theater, Film, Visual Art, Dance. Majority Of Grants (53) Are Focused Within Cleveland, John Huntington Art & Polytechnic
Trust ($152M Total Assets).
FLINT
Key People: Mayor Dayne Walling. Major Initiatives, Programs, Events, And Organizations: Flint Cultural Center, Flint Institute Of The Arts (Museum, Gallery, Workshops), Flint
Institute Of Music (Symphony, Performing Arts), Greater Flint Arts Foundation, Flint Local 432 (Youth Concert Venue), Sloan Museum (Automobile Museum), The Machine Shop (Concert Venue),
Buckham Alley Theatre, Vertigo Productions (Theatre Company). Cultural Institutions: Buckham Fine Arts Project, Greater Flint Arts Council Gallery, Citizens Bank Lobby Gallery, Clio Area
Art Society Gallery, Gmi Administration Building Gallery, Harding Mott Gallery, University Of Michigan-Flint , Left Bank Gallery , Mott Community College Fine Arts Gallery. Funding Sources:
Michigan Council For Arts And Cultural Affairs (Mcaca), Kresge Foundation (Troy, Michigan), Artserve Michigan, James A. Welch Foundation (Youth And Creativity), Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
(Urban Renewal, Humanities), Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust (Education/Youth/Humanities).
TOLEDO
Key People: Michael P. Bell Mayor of Toledo, Marc D. Folk- executive Director of arts commission of greater toledo. Major Initiatives, Programs, Events, and Organizations: Winter
Music Festival, Faculty Exhibition, Toledo Opera Gala: The Romance of the Ring, The Mix Vertical: a fundraiser for Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Crosby Festival of the Arts & Gala Preview
Party, Music Under the Stars, Jazz in the Garden, Toledo area Artists Exhibition, Annual Art on the Mall, Arts in the Garden, Black Swamp Arts Festival, Art Commission of Greater Toledo, The Village Players Theater, Toledo Opera, Toledo Repertoire Theater, Arts Council of Lake Erie West, Ballet Theater of Toledo, Collingwood Arts Center, Glacity Theater Collective, Masterworks Chorale,
Maumee Community Band, Maumee Council for the Arts, Maumee Performing Arts Center, Naturalists’ Camera Club, Perrysburg Area Arts Council, Photo Arts Club of Toledo, Sylvania Community Arts Commission, The Toledo Potters’ Guild, Theater League, Toledo Artists’ Club, Toledo Ballet, Toledo Craftsman’s Guild, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Commercial
Galleries: 20 North Gallery, American Gallery, Art on Central, Arts in Common Gallery, BGSU Galleries, Bozarts Gallery, Collingwood Arts Center, Copper Moon Studio, D’Vine Design, Fenwick
Gallery Of Fine Art, Firenation Glass Studio & Gallery, Gallery at Madhouse, Hudson Gallery, J & J Gallery, Kirwen Art Gallery, Main Street Art & Glass, MMK Gallery, Mr. Atomic Studio & Gallery,
Ottawa Gallery, Parkwood Gallery, Paula Brown Gallery, River House Arts, Schmidt Messenger Gallery and Studio, Secor Galleries, Silver Lining Gallery, Space 237 Galleries & ClaySpace, Sur St.
Clair, Toledo Artists Club Gallery, University of Toledo Center for Visual Arts, Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery. Public and Private Funding Sources: Arts Commission Of Greater Toledo Endowment Fund, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Legacy Society, Ohio Citizens For the Arts, Americans For the Arts
ATLANTIC CITY
Key People: Mayor Lorenzo T. Langford, City Council: Moisse Delgado, Frank Gilliam, George Tibbitt, Aaron Randolph, Marty Smal, Steven L. Moor, William ‘Speedy’ Marsh, Dennis Mason, Timothy
Mancuso, Co-Chairmen Of Schultz Foundation: John J Schultz, Gary L Hill, Executive Director Of Crda: Thomas D. Carver, Esq. Major Initiatives, Programs, Events And Organizations:
South Jersey Cultural Alliance, Atlantic City Arts Commission, Atlantic City Dance Theater, Dante Hall. Cultural Institutions: Resort Graphics, Clauson’s Fine Picture Framing And Art, Atlantic City Art Center ,Oh My Godard Gallery, Atlantic Galleries, Noyes Museum Of Art, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, New Jersey Korean War Veterans Memorial, Atlantic City Historical Museum, The
Music Box At Borgata Hotel, Bone Yard Bar & Grill, House Of Blues. Funding Sources: Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Schultz Hill Foundation, Atlantic City Art Centeratlantic City
Improvement Corporation Inc., Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Art’s Plan Nj, Art’s Pride Nj, Nj State Council On The Arts.
NEW ORLEANS
Key People: Mayor Mitchell J. Major Initiatives, Programs, Events, And Organizations: No Biennial: Prospect 2.0 And 1.5, Art For Arts’ Sake Bach Around The Clock Bayou Boogaloo
Festival, Bayou Classic Carnaval Latino, Caroling In Jackson Square & Home Tour, Caroling In Washington Square, Celebration In The Oaks, Christmas New Orleans Style, Crescent City Blues
Festival Crescent City Classic, Ecole Bilingue Fete Francais, El Tercero San Fermin In Nueva Orleans, Essence Festival, Fall Garden Show, Film Festival, French Market Tomato Festival, French
Quarter Festival, Freret Street Festival, Gretna Festival, Greek Fest, International Arts Festival, Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, Mirliton Festival, New Orleans Film &
Video Festival, New Orleans Spring Fiesta, New Orleans Wine And Food Experience, Old Algiers River Fest, Po-Boy Festival, Ponderosa Stomp, Project 30-90, Red Dress Run, Satchmo Summerfest, Shakespeare Festival, Southern Decadence, Spring Garden Show, Swamp Fest, Earth Fest, Soul Fest, Asian Heritage Festival, And More, Tales Of The Cocktail, Tennessee Williams Literary
Festival,Treme Creole Gumbo Festival, Voodoo Experience, Voodoo Music Experience, White Linen Night, Words & Music: A Literary Feast, Dutch Alley Artists’ Co-Op, Arts Council Of New Orleans,
New Orleans Artworks At The New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking. Cultural Institutions: Newcomb Art Gallery, American Italian Renaissance Foundation’s Museum And Research
Library, Amistad Research Center, Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Confederate Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, Diboll Gallery At Loyola University, Gallier House, Hermann Grima House, Jean
Lafitte National Historical Park And Preserve, Longue Vue House And Gardens, Louisiana Children’s Museum, National Shrine Of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, National Wwii Museum, New
Orleans African American Museum, New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, New Orleans Museum Of Art, New Orleans Museums, New Orleans Public Library, Ogden, Museum Of Southern
Art, Old U.S. Mint, Pharmacy Museum, Pitot House, Preservation Resource Center, The Backstreet Cultural Museum, The Cabildo, The Edgar Degas House, The Historic New Orleans Collection,
The Presbytere, Tulane Museum Of Natural History, Tulane’s Special Collections, Funding Sources, Global Communications Program For Theater, French-American Fund For The Performing, Art,
Kresge Facilities Investments And Reserves, Nea Shakespeare In American Communities. Funding Sources: National Arts And Humanities Youth Program Awards, Contemporary American Music
Recording Program, Peyback Foundation, Micheal P.Smith Fund For Documentary Photography, Pov Diverse Voices Project Co-Production Fund, Funding For Music: Guitar Center,Individual
Artist Funding: Pollock-Krasner, Southern Arts Foundation Touring.
MOBILE
Key People: Mayor Sam Jones. Major Initiatives, Programs, Events, And Organizations: Restore Coastal Alabama, String Of Pearls- Dow Administration (1998), String Of Pearls IiMayor Sam Jones (2008), Bring Back Broad Street, Oldest Mardi Gras Celebration, Dating To The Early 1700S Of French Colonial Times. Organizations, Mobile Arts Council Inc, Alabama Alliance
For Arts Education, Alabama Crafts Council, Design Alabama, Alabama Arts Organization, Playhouse In The Park, Portrait America Inc. Cultural Institutions: Space 301,Blue Velvet Studio,
Cathedral Square Gallery, Crescent Theater, The Blind Mule, Art Off Centre, Inside Up, Mobile Arts Council, Loda Artwalk. Funding Sources: Alabama Power Foundation- Provides $115,000 In
Grants To Support Non Profit Initiatives The Community Forestry Project Is Open To Local Governments, Nonprofit Groups, And Public And Private Schools, Colleges And Universities. Grants Of Up
To $2,000 Are Awarded. In Addition, The Foundation Will Award $4,000 In Gateway Grants To Communities Across The State To Develop And/Or Enhance Their Gateways Or Welcome-Sign Areas.
Alabama State Arts Council- $437,000 To Various Communities.
TACOMA
Key People: Mayor Marilyn Strickland, Sarah Idstrom (Chair Of The Tacoma Arts Commission). Major Initiatives, Programs, Events, And Organizations: Tacoma Arts Commission,
Artist Trust, 4Culture, Artdish Nw Forum On Visual Art, Dash Center For The Arts, Hilltop Artists In Residence Tacoma, Manitou Art Center, Pacific Gallery Artists, Pierce County Arts Commission,
Tacoma Art Place, Tacoma Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Mural Art Program, Metal-Urge, Spaceworks Tacoma, Acoustic Sound, Broadway Center For The Performing Arts, Hilltop
Artists In Residence, Northwest Sinfonietta, Tacoma City Ballet, Tacoma Concert Band, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma Little Theatre, Tacoma Musical Playhouse, Tacoma Opera, Tacoma Philharmonic, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Tacoma Youth Chorus, Tacoma Youth Symphony, Washington Contemporary Ballet. Cultural Institutions: Museum Of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum,
America’s Car Museum, 253 Collective, American Art Company, The Art Stop, B2 Fine Art Gallery, Bkb & Company, Brick House Gallery, Fulcrum Gallery, The Lakewood Gallery, Madera Architectural Elements, Mavi Contemporary Art, Mineral, Proctor Art Gallery, Robert Daniel Gallery, Sandpiper Gallery, Speakeasy Arts Cooperative, Tacoma Art Place, Tacoma Community College Gallery,
Tacoma Glassblowing Studio,, Tacoma Metal Arts Center, The Telephone Room, Traver Gallery, Viceroy Art Gallery. Funding Sources: Arts Anchor Fund (Supports And Stabilizes Established
Arts Organizations In Tacoma With Budgets Greater Than $200,000), Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (Supports The Generation Or Completion Of New Artwork As Well As A Public Component
In Which The Artist Shares His/Her Talents With The Citizens Of Tacoma), Amocat Arts Awards (Supports Community-Based Arts Organizations That Significantly Improve The Quality Of Life For
The Citizens Of Tacoma, “Anchor” The Cultural Scene In Tacoma), Arts Projects (Supports A Variety Of High Quality Arts Projects Throughout Tacoma), The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation.
non-profit organizations in the state of New York have a collected revenue of $15.9 Billion.
Arts supporting non-profit organizations in the state of Ca
yr - NEA initiatives including MICD; Heinz Endowments (Pitt) total $1.8M/yr - green building initiatives; Graham Foundation (Chicago) - $1M/yr – art and a
WEEK 24/42 SUPRASTUDIO 15
Population: 102,471
Area: 25.3 mi2
Major Industry: Agriculture
Heritage: Agriculture
EPA Zone: 9
178,403
Being in one of one of the largest agricultural regions in
the United States and in close proximity to Sacramento
and San Francisco, Atwater and Merced are expecting
great economic growth and commercial investment in the
coming years. Despite being surrounded by undeveloped
land at the moment, both Atwater and Merced should
consider expanding inward as opposed to outward in the
spirit of a traditional European city. Looking inward will help
address the tension between the city’s development and
the agricultural industry while creating a more complete
city fabric. In addition, the rezoning of the Superfund site of
Castle Air Force Base in the City of Atwater should not only
focus on commercial development, but also address the lack
of art and culture activities in the region by engaging the
region’s identity: the agricultural landscape.
22,282
WHERE
AMERICANS
ARE
MOVING
FROM
78,498
56,216
1990
2000
87,006
210,554
63,893
23,113
2009
102,471
245,321
Site A
747 acres
MERCED COUNTY POPULATION
76,273
Site B
327 acres
MERCED-ATWATER POPULATION
26,198
CONTEXT
DEVELOPED LAND
CITY LIMITS
CONTAMINATED SITE
INSTITUTIONS
ATWATER
PRISON
SITE A
CASTLE AIRPORT
SACRAMENTO (116 MI)
SITE B
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED
ATWATER
RAIL
RIGHT
OF
WAY
MERCED COLLEGE
HIGHWAY
99
MERCED
FRESNO (60 MI)
alifornia have a collected revenue of $5 Billion.
Donald Judd leaves the New York art scene and moves to Marfa, TX, 1977.
Simon and Garfunkel put on
architecture projects through research/publication/events; Kresge Foundation (Troy, MI) - funding towards mid-west Michigan/Ohio area; Ford Foundation
The Two Cities
MIGRATION TO MERCED-ATWATER
Merced City
Atwater City
MERCED-ATWATER, CA
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Cleveland, OH
Population: 431,639 (city)
Area: 82.4 mi2
Major Industry: Steel
manufacturing, transportation
hub, and health care
Heritage: Steel production
EPA Zone: 5
MAJOR ISSUES: Population decline, disconnected urban
fabric
Since 2000, Cleveland has lost nearly 45,000 people. This
trend is part of a longer history of population decline that
Cleveland has dealt with since 1950, when almost one
million inhabitants lived in the city limits. As a result of the
population loss, many residential districts have been left
with foreclosed and abandoned homes. For such reasons,
the city has accepted its shrinking state and has focused on
development in the downtown core and industrial bands to
bring in green-tech and bio-tech industries.
We are interested in creating a cultural initiative to connect
the downtown core, residential areas and industry while
also addressing one of Cleveland’s greatest assets: the
Cuyahoga River. The zone, known as the Industrial Valley,
is vital to Cleveland’s economy but is uninhabitable due a
long history of industrial use. This area has a series of EPA
Superfund and Brownfield sites, and is recognized as one of
the Cuyahoga’s “Habitat for Hard Places” re-naturalization
initiative.
LAND USE PATTERNS
Residential Areas Most affected with foreclosure and
abandonment.
Downtown Core New developments such as the Med-Mart
Convention Center, the Flats East Bank, and a proposed casino are
attempting to create a stronger economic base.
Waterfront Beautification The Cleveland Waterfront district
Industrial Bands Light and heavy industrial development.
Green technology should take over these zones as a vital element plan was created to put a glossy coat of development onto the
lakefront. While this project would add parks to the region, it
to Cleveland’s declining manufacturing sector.
ignores major issues and is essentially a band-aid
proposal for urban development.
By leveraging ecological concerns and cultural opportunity
with economic stabilization, this zone can directly address
many urban and social issues of Cleveland.
HUD Grant recipients Between 2009 and 2010 Cleveland
received over $53 million in Neighborhood Stabilization grants
from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to
fix or demolish blighted structures.
POTENTIAL SITES
Cuyahoga River Area of Concern The Cuyahoga River
watershed is monitored by the Great Lakes EPA. The area covers
most of Cleveland’s city limit and has a large ecological impact.
INDUSTRY, CULTURE, AND ECOLOGY
LAKE ERIE
RIVER STABILIZATION ZONES
Riverside Landings / Scranton Road Marina
Type: Brownfield (ACRES)
Size: 6.1 acres
Cleanup Stage: Assessment
Pollution: Soil
Reuse: No
Redevelopment: No
Proposed Future Use: Residential
CHEMICAL AND MINERALS RECLAMATION
RIVERSIDE LANDINGS
FORMER ASPHALT PLANT
Former Cleveland Asphalt Plant
2900 West 3rd Street
Cleveland, Ohio
Type: Brownfield (ACRES)
Size: 1.96 (2.7) acres
Cleanup Stage: Assessment
Pollution: Soil
Reuse Ready: No
Redevelopment Ready: No
Proposed Future Use: Unknown
Notes: Adjacent to Conrail Railroad, Cuyahoga River
HIGHWAY
RAIL
EPA FOCUS ZONE
INDUSTRIAL ZONE
CONTAMINATED SITE
CUYAHOGA
RI
VER
CULTURAL ACTIVITY
a free concert in Central Park - 500,000 people attend on September 19, 1981.
Christos and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The Gates’ project draws over 4 million peop
(NYC); Andrew W Mellon Fund (NYC); MetLife Foundation (NYC).
The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world’s wealthiest arts organization with assets totalling $
WEEK 24/42 SUPRASTUDIO 17
Flint, MI
MIGRATION FROM GENESEE COUNTY, 2008
Population:124,943 (city)
Area: 34.1 mi2
Major Industry: Automotive
manufacturing
Heritage: Auto industry,
birthplace of General Motors and the
United Auto Workers (UAW) union
EPA Zone: 5
MAJOR ISSUES: Foreclosure and demolition of unused
property, high racial tension and crime (top 5 U.S. city),
monoculture, population decline.
An economic downtown a half-century in the making, Flint
must accept it is no longer shrinking, but shrunk. A city
constantly downsizing in population -- 200,000 in 1960 at
the apex of American automobile production – Flint has
witnessed many of its inhabitants follow its industry moving
out-of-town, out-of-mind.
A program must be proposed to encourage a focus on
intelligent reduction where foreclosed homes and abandoned
assembly plants are routinely demolished leaving empty
lots ripe for repurposing. The agglomeration of urban form
has been replaced by the generation of urban space and
Flint must play an active role in regulating how new spatial
territories can be rearticulated to help sustain a smaller, but
more vibrant, city.
POPULATION DECLINE
-20.5%
1970-1980
POTENTIAL SITES
-11.9%
1980-1990
-10.7%
-11.1%
1990-2000
2000-2010
FLINT
WEBSTER ROAD ELEMENTARY
Chevy-In-The-Hole
Type: Brownfield
Size: 113 acres
History: Former General Motors assembly plant
Potential: Re-purpose an industrial site on the downtown riverfront
FLINT RIVER
PINK WAREHOUSE
CHEVY-IN-THE-HOLE
CITIZENS BANK PARKING LOT
CITY LIMITS
DOWNTOWN CULTURAL AREA
CONTAMINATED SITE
Citizens Bank Parking Lot
Type: Brownfield
Size: 0.65 acre
History: Under-used downtown corridor, commerical storefronts
Potential: Locate and quantify city decline through cultural intervention
CULTURAL ACTIVITY
“Decline in Flint is like gravity, a fact of life,”
said Dan Kildee, the Genesee County treasurer and chief executive of its land bank,
“We need to control it instead of letting it control us.”
Pink Warehouse
Type: Brownfield
Size: 0.60 acres
History: Former storage facility in a nearly vacant residential neighborhood
Potential: Directly address the ‘Shrinking City’ through conscious demolition
ple to New York’s Central Park and has an economic impact of $254 million, 2005.
Columbian Exhibition of 1893 in Chicago inspires the City Beautiful
$7.8 billion in 2010.
William Penn Foundation assets were approximately $2 billion at the close of 2010.
Robert Smithson monumental earthwork
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Toledo, OH
Population: 316,851 (city)
Area: 84.1 mi2
Major Industry: Steel
production, Cleantech, Shipping
Heritage: Steel, Glass production
EPA Zone: 5
Years after Toledo’s rail yards and powerhouses have
dissipated into old images of the 1950’s. The region no
longer contains the capacity that drove Toledo’s thriving
shipping and production houses. This trickle down effect has
diminished, but not closed, the city. Its own facilities were
not singularly supported by the surrounding industries and
Toledo became a city pulling from the diversity of production
that still littered the Rust Belt. Creating the effect of a post
industrial landscape.
SITE Typologies
Remaining a city that is constantly on the break of collapse,
Toledo has begun to couple with it’s educational resources
directed towards green energy capitalizing this with the
cities long history of glass production. This invention of new
solar products and their production is the new life line for
the city.
Although new markets are emerging, the city has been
blighted by its urban growth. This common feature of most
small cities of a decentralized core, carries its own issues
that will make it difficult for the city to grow positively with
current trends.
CITY AS A SITE
One of many sites bordering the Maumee River where the city has been removed and just relics of past
infrastructure remain. Dividing the city, these sites are large ranging from between 90 and 200 acres.
Maumee River home to rail traffic
running across the outlining
suburbs.
Suburb Condition (foreclosed,
sparse)
Structures abandoned while the
neighboring buildings removed. The
urban fill has been removed.
EPA contaminated site ready for
reuse bordering downtown.
Introduction of artists reviving the
edge of downtown.
Abandoned structures.
Remnants of past industry.
Abandoned structures.
Abandoned structures.
Toledo circa 1950. The river banks are lined with heavy industry like glass
manufacturing and power stations. The downtown across the Maumee river
thrives with a dense population.
Downtown Core Condition (many buildings removed)
TOLEDO
Lake Eire
Downtown
Cultural Activity
EPA Sites
Post Industrial Land
Rail Lines
Major Highways
Toledo’s urban fabric is composed
of a mixed typologies. Contaminated
sites are coupled with industry and
cultural active zones.
movement, which promotes planning based on Beaux-Arts and Classical aesthetics.
Seattle World Expo makes a profit despite only attracting 9.6 million pe
Spiral Jetty is completed on the Great Salt Lake in Utah, 1970.
Center for Land Use and Interpretation (CLUI) is established, 1994.
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WEEK 24/42 SUPRASTUDIO 19
ATLANTIC CITY
ATLANTIC CITY,NJ
Population: 35,770 (city)
Area: 17.4 mi2
Major Industry: Tourism,
Gambling
Heritage: Beach resort, gambling
EPA Zone: 2
For years Atlantic City was the destination to gamble on
the east coast. Unfortunately, due to the recent economic
downturn, neighboring states have started to legalize
gambling and Atlantic City is struggling to attract the same
number of tourists that the once did. Atlantic City is now
suffering from a struggling economy and developers who no
longer want to invest in the decaying city.
POTENTIAL SITES
Bader Air Field
Background: Permanently decommissioned in 2006, Bader Field has been
sitting unused ever since. It was the first airfield to use the term airport.
In 1998, Bernie Robbins Baseball Field opened and served as the home to
the minor league team The Atlantic City Surf until 2009. Currently even the
baseball stadium is vacant and falling into disrepair.
Location: 5th Ward Planning Area 1
Type of Contamination: Potential Ground Water Contamination
Type of Site: Urban
Major Buildings or Points of Interest: Former site of Bader Airport,
Abandoned Baseball Stadium, Bernie Robbins Field, 1/2 mile away from
boardwalk and casinos
Size: 143 acres
Potentials: City has tried to sell land to casino developers, offering a
straight trade for land. Potential lies in the amount and variety of land that
could be traded for this area.
CASINO
PARK
CONTAMINATED SITE
CULTURAL ACTIVITY
Garwood Mills/Starns Property
Background: Former site of Garwood Department Store, it was last open
in 1976. Since closing, the site has been razed and multiple attempts have
been made to redevelop it. The site has been sold and repossessed by the
city multiple times.
Location: 1st Ward North East Inlet
Type of Contamination: Soil and Groundwater
Type of Site: Urban Residential
Major Building or Points of Interests: Across Inlet from new casino
Size: 41 Acres
Potentials: Access to water and tourism areas.
eople, 1962.
New Orleans World Expo declares bankruptcy before the scheduled close of the expo, 1984.
Eli and Edythe Broad give $1.3 billion to public
ennial of Creative Video is established by the Guggenheim in New York City to recognize the ever-expanding realm of online video and its most remarkable